‘Asbestos Litigation’ Category

Verastem, Inc., a company that works to develop drugs to treatmesothelioma and other cancers by killing cancer stem cells, has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Verastem’s VS-5584 an orphan drug designation. VS-5584 may prove to be effective for treating mesothelioma, a rare cancer whose only confirmed cause is exposure to asbestos.

The orphan drug...

There seems to be good news for peritoneal mesothelioma patients being treated with cytoreductive surgery and heated chemotherapy (CRS-HIPEC).

Mesothelioma doctors have published promising findings in multiple new studies involving treatment of peritoneal mesothelioma. Scientists from the University of Montreal authored a study published in the journal Surgical Oncology finding that...

The same asbestos companies that have played a role in killing 3,000 Americans each year with the deadly cancer, mesothelioma, have been busy lobbying the new Congress to pass a law that would invade the privacy of those cancer victims and their families. The name of this proposed legislation is the Furthering Asbestos Claims Transparency Act (FACT) act. The law would require asbestos victims...

Those responsible for exposing salvage workers to old asbestos materials at the former Liberty Fibers Plant in Hamblen County, Tennessee have been sentenced. As a result of the workers’ exposure to the toxic substance, experts testified in federal court, the men are at an increased risk of developing mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases.

The asbestos industry’s continuing deceit and secrecy recently formed the topic for one of our favorite blogs, the Pop Tort. Entitled “Asbestos, Yum!” the blog entry began with the sad but true story of the Johns-Manville company, which back in 1933 reached a settlement agreement with several of its former employees who had developed asbestos disease. The settlement required the former...