the latest legal and medical news related to the connection between mesothelioma and asbestos
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Mesothelioma (asbestos cancer) is a highly aggressive, rare form of cancer. Beasley Allen knows mesothelioma harms many families each year, and we understand that your mesothelioma lawyer must do more than just handle the claim on your behalf. We want to help your family through this difficult time and make certain the manufacturers of unsafe asbestos products compensate you.
Posted: 26d 3h 20m ago
Jury Awards $226,000 in Mesothelioma Civil Suit
An Indiana County jury this week awarded $226,000 to the family of a man who had been exposed to asbestos while he worked at the Fisher Scientific plant along Indian Springs Road in White Township.
Posted: 56d 6h 25m ago
Mesothelioma victim wins $20 million verdict
SAN FRANCISCO-A Dallas, Texas-based law firm today announced a $20 million civil verdict in an asbestos lawsuit on behalf of Joan Mahoney, 69-year-old victim of mesothelioma, a painful and debilitating form of cancer affecting the lining of the lungs, and Daniel Mahoney, her husband of 42 years.
Posted: 61d 2h 58m ago
Victory for victims of secondary asbestos exposure
Following a ruling by a Washington State Court of Appeals, victims of secondary asbestos exposure have enjoyed a hard earned victory - The ruling will make it easier for those exposed to asbestos as the result of the work of family members living in the same home to make a claim for their asbestos related diseases such as asbestos cancer, lung cancer, and mesothelioma.
Posted: 63d 2h 31m ago
Asbestos: Woman sues after developing mesothelioma
Frances Barras of Nederland, Texas, along with her husband and five children, has sued DuPont and several asbestos manufacturers because she has developed mesothelioma from washing and handling her husband's asbestos-contaminated work clothes for many years.
Posted: 69d 3h 02m ago
Family Awarded $2.25 Million For Asbestos Exposure In Workplace
A New York City jury awarded $2.25 million in the case of 73 year old Leonard Shafer who had exposure to asbestos in his workplace as a civilian employee at the New York Naval Shipyard (Brooklyn Navy Yard) in the 1950's. Attorneys for the family of Mr. Shafer helped prove Shafer developed pleural mesothelioma, which is an aggressive, incurable cancer during his career at the Shipyard.
Posted: 70d 7h 46m ago
Jury Awards $30 million in Mesothelioma case
A six-member jury in Superior Court in Bergen County, New Jersey, ruled on Feb. 26 to award the family of Mark Buttitta a settlement of $30.3 million. The judgment is one of the largest ever in asbestos litigation in the state. Buttitta died of mesothelioma just before Christmas 2002, at age 50, after being diagnosed in 2001.
Posted: 74d 6h 57m ago
Construction Worker Died of Asbestos Related Cancer
A former construction worker from Droitwich died from an asbestos-related cancer, an inquest was told.
Posted: 102d 7h 39m ago
Minnesota's Health Report on Sick Miners
The 58 taconite miners who got a rare lung cancer worked in mines across Minnesota's Iron Range - at least one for as little as a month but others for decades.
Posted: 3h 42m ago
NDP Issues Christmas Toy Asbestos Warning
Posted: 3h 40m ago
Major Asbestos Bill Passes in U.S. Senate
Studies estimate that during the next decade, 100,000 victims in the United States will die of an asbestos related disease - equaling 30 deaths per day.
Posted: 7h 21m ago
Dangerous Levels of Asbestos in Homes
Half of a group of homes in Thetford Mines, Que., had levels of asbestos high enough that, if the same concentrations were detected in U.S. schools, students wouldn't be allowed inside the buildings.
Posted: 0h 50m ago
Dana to Settle 7,500 Asbestos Lawsuits
Dana Corp. has agreed to pay 7,500 personal injury claimants a total of $2 million to resolve their lawsuits stemming from asbestos-laden gaskets produced by the auto-parts supplier
Posted: 8h 46m ago
Cleveland Cliffs is Attempting to Mislead the Public about Asbestos
Once again, a major mining company is attempting to mislead and confuse its past and present employees and the public about its concern for their health and safety.
Posted: 3h 09m ago
Mesothelioma from Asbestos the Cost in Human Terms
Les Skramstad. Jack Davis. Bob Wheelis. Three names that have, or may soon, become statistics at the behest of asbestos. (Skramstad), as you may have read, lost his battle with asbestosis. Jack and Bob are sick with mesothelioma, and there are thousands like them. But more than simply names on a ledger, these names represent real people, with families and friends and responsibilities.
Posted: 4h 24m ago
Asbestos Exposure only Known Link to Pleural Mesothelioma
Even though asbestos has been a dirty word for decades, and its use and prevalence has dramatically declined, the toxic substance is still making its presence felt, and is still at the root cause of serious health problems including pleural mesothelioma.
Posted: 6h 27m ago
Former Navy Sailor Wins $35M Asbestos Lawsuit
A former Navy sailor who was exposed to asbestos more than 50 years ago has been awarded $35.1 million in compensatory damages after he was diagnosed with cancer.
Posted: 6h 24m ago
MU Researchers Receive Grant to Improve Fertility in Female Cancer Survivors
Before Michelle Baetiong began chemotherapy for abdominal cancer in 2006, she decided to have eggs from her ovary frozen, knowing there was only a 6 percent chance that the two harvested eggs would ever result in a successful pregnancy.
Posted: 1h 55m ago
Asbestos Every Little Bit Hurts
In 1976, W.R. Grace & Co. convinced the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to consider products containing less than one percent asbestos as non-asbestos containing products.
Posted: 2h 04m ago
EPA Refused to Warn of Asbestos Dangers
Congressional investigators will hammer the Environmental Protection Agency in a soon-to-be-released report for its flawed examination and cleanup of hundreds of factories that once processed asbestos-contaminated vermiculite into insulation.
Posted: 2h 17m ago
Killer Asbestos Diseases Stalk Mining Communities
Robert Devenish has resigned himself to an agonizing death of asbestos-induced cancer, a silent but cruel killer stalking mining communities in South Africa's Northern Cape province.
Posted: 6h 37m ago
Cash Sooner for Mesothelioma Victims
Plans to speed up compensation claims for those affected by a deadly lung disease have been hailed as "fantastic news".
Posted: 8h 00m ago
Cancer Found in Minnesota Miners
A rare form of cancer linked to asbestos exposure has been found in another 35 miners on the Iron Range and the state said it planned two studies to examine potential health concerns.
Posted: 8h 06m ago
Slammed for Secret Asbestos Removal
A week after Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo filed criminal charges against downtown developer Meruelo Maddux Properties Inc. for illegally dumping asbestos-tainted material, key questions remain.
Posted: 8h 13m ago
Dying for a Job U.S. Capitol Workers Exposed to Asbestos
My name is John Thayer and I am the supervisor of the Capitol Power Plant Tunnel Crew that works for the Architect of the Capitol. There are 10 of us in the crew. Just over a year ago, we found out that the AOC had been misleading us for years about the extent of our workplace exposure to asbestos.
Posted: 8h 16m ago
Taconite a Suspect in Iron Range Cancer Deaths
After three dozen new cases of a rare form of lung cancer were reported among Minnesota iron miners, the state health department says it will launch studies to determine the cause.
Posted: 8h 23m ago
Virginia Jury Awards $9.25M for Mesothelima Death
The widow of a former shipyard worker who died from exposure to asbestos while building Navy aircraft carriers was awarded $9.25 million by a Newport News, Virginia jury.
Posted: 8h 37m ago
Family Gets $2.3M Over Workplace Asbestos-Related Death
The family of a Santa Clara man who died as a result of his workplace exposure to asbestos reached a $2.3 million settlement with several companies, the family's attorney said Friday.
Posted: 8h 40m ago
New Study Gives Some Mesothelioma Patients Renewed Hope
Some patients with malignant mesothelioma may have a prognosis that's not quite so grim as widely believed, a Nordic collaborative group said here.
Posted: 2h 25m ago
