This decision reverses a punitive damage award against a supplier of talc to the manufacturer of Old Spice talcum powder. Defendant did not contest the jury’s verdicts finding that plaintiff contracted mesothelioma from the asbestos in the talcum powder and that defendant was negligent in failing to detect and warn consumers about its presence in the product. However, there was insufficient evidence to establish malice by clear and convincing evidence since plaintiff stopped using the talcum powder in 1980, 14 years before scientists first linked trace amounts of asbestos in talcum powder to a risk of serious illness such as mesothelioma.