12:14 AM CST on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 by Jeff Mosier / The Dallas Morning News jmosier@dallasnews.com
FORT WORTH – The city might endanger the health of nearby residents if it allows an experimental asbestos abatement test to continue this week, opponents said at a press conference Monday.
A handful of opponents and a couple of...
Jury Awards $35.1 Million to Retired U.S. Navy Boiler Tender Exposed to Asbestos
Verdict Is One of LA County’s Largest Ever in an Asbestos Case;
LOS ANGELES — October 17, 2007 — A Los Angeles County jury late last week handed down a $35.1 million verdict to a 74-year-old retired U.S. Navy boiler tender,...
Jury Awards $5.2 Million to Long-Time U.S. Navy Machinist Exposed to Asbestos
Power Equipment Manufacturer Foster Wheeler Found Liable for Failure to Warn; Jury Also Finds Malice
LOS ANGELES — May 24, 2007 — A Los Angeles jury yesterday found power equipment manufacturer Foster Wheeler liable for the mesothelioma death of 60-year-old Richard...
Do-It-Yourselfer Remodeled 12-15 Properties During the 1960s-70s
LOS ANGELES — June 23, 2006 — A Los Angeles County jury yesterday awarded $12.6 million in compensatory damages to a man suffering from malignant mesothelioma as a result of repairs he made on a dozen or so homes that he...
Jury Finds that Kelly-Moore and Kaiser Gypsum Acted with Malice, But Judge Disallows Punitive Damages
LOS ANGELES — September 7, 2006 — A Los Angeles County jury yesterday awarded $15.25 million in compensatory damages to the family of a laborer who developed malignant mesothelioma...
Alcoa Inc. assessed 100% responsibility
DALLAS — October 28, 2005 — A Dallas County jury awarded $25.7 million to a woman suffering from pleural mesothelioma as a result of laundering her husband’s work clothes laden with asbestos dust.
The jury found Wednesday that Pittsburgh-based...
By JONATHAN D. GLATER Published: April 6, 2005
The wave of asbestos litigation that led to loud calls for legislation appears to have passed at least for now.
The number of claims filed against one of the biggest and oldest trusts set up to compensate victims of asbestos fell last year to its lowest level in more than...
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