National Mesothelioma Awareness Day 2011
National Mesothelioma Awareness Day 2011 marks opportunity to take note of present-day asbestos dangers Monday (Sept. 26) is National Mesothelioma Awareness Day, an occasion created to give voice to...
View Article1978 Pinto explosion lawsuit, like asbestos verdicts, held negligent...
33 years ago today, three teenage girls died after their 1973 Ford Pinto caught fire after being rear-ended by a van on an Indiana highway. The tragedy ended in a historical lawsuit in which the Ford...
View ArticleTornado Sheds Devastating Light on the Asbestos Problem in Joplin
In May, the region of Joplin, Missouri was struck by a devastating tornado, “the deadliest to have hit the United States since 1953.” (Time) Images of the affected areas show buildings and other...
View ArticleResearchers fear North Dakota erionite will lead to mesothelioma epidemic, as...
Michele Carbone of the University of Hawaii Cancer Center (which recently received $3.6 millionfrom an anonymous donor, to support mesothelioma research) has spent much of his career working with three...
View ArticleU.S. Navy asbestos exposure under the sea: innovative recycling or recipe for...
Will a manmade reef—made fromThe USS Arthur W. Radford, a 563-foot naval destroyer active from 1977 to 2003—bring Navy asbestos exposure to the underwater ecosystem it is supposed to support? Like the...
View ArticleMesothelioma cancer lawsuit leads to $30 million verdict
The widow of a man who passed away from mesothelioma cancer won more than $30 million from a mesothelioma cancer lawsuit. It is believed that her deceased husband was exposed to asbestos in the early...
View ArticleBrooklyn Navy Yard Worker With Mesothelioma Wins Compensation
The story he told during depositions opened a window into the dangerous working conditions he and other shipyard workers endured below deck as they trustingly plied their trade in good faith, only to...
View ArticleSubstantial Mesothelioma Lawsuit Settlement Check Paid to Widow of Electrician
Recently, the widow of a New York City electrician who died 18 months after being diagnosed with the asbestos cancer mesothelioma received a substantial settlement from her husband’s mesothelioma...
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