As mesothelioma cases rise in the United Kingdom, the government there has made it a priority to determine a list of the top ten research objectives using input from the mesothelioma community. These mesothelioma research objectives are likely just as important to the thousands of mesothelioma patients here at home in the United States. To accomplish this, the UK National Institute for Health...
It may be widely thought that asbestos is a thing of the past, but the truth is that it is still very much a problem in the United States that continues to keep asbestos lawyers busy. Though the U.S. Federal government banned many of the common uses of asbestos in the 1970s, buildings built using materials that contain asbestos still remain standing today.
When asbestos is disturbed or...
After years of research, it is believed that shorter asbestos fibers – like chrysotile asbestos fibers – may contribute to toxicity levels. Though initially this does not sound earth shattering, it deserves a closer look since federal regulations governing air quality in the workplace required monitoring only for long, thin fibers.
Chemist Philip Cook was the force behind the...
In response to a 2015 request from the mayor of Canajoharie, New York, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has initiated an asbestos removal project at an abandoned New York paper sack factory. The EPA’s regional administrator announced in a press release that the agency is providing staff and federal funds to prevent any spread of asbestos during demolition of the old Arkell and...
It seems like a war sometimes for those battling pleural mesothelioma. One of the most stubborn and aggressive types of cancer, researchers report that only 1 in 10 patients survive more than five years after diagnosis. Patients and their loved ones often have no choice but to seek physical and emotional comfort instead of controversial and invasive treatments.
There was a glimmer of...
Waters Kraus & Paul partner fights for client sickened by take-home asbestos exposure, wins precedent-setting ruling in which the Calif. Supreme Court recognizes employer’s / company’s duty to prevent take-home asbestos exposure.
LOS ANGELES – In a unanimous decision by the justices of the California Supreme Court, employers and premises owners may be held...
Co-Chair Michael Armitage: Conference occurs at important time for asbestos-exposure mesothelioma litigation
LOS ANGELES – Top asbestos-exposure litigators from both sides of the bar and judges who have presided over some of the most important recent asbestos-related mesothelioma cancer trials are gathering in Los Angeles to review litigation trends, trial techniques and the science...
Fifteen years after the collapse of the World Trade Center, many clean-up workers are concerned about their mesothelioma risk as a result of exposure to asbestos. It is reported that the rubble from the towers’ collapse contained more than 400 tons of asbestos that had been used to insulate the buildings. “When asbestos products are disturbed during demolition or remodeling, asbestos...
Put all the creatures of the night together, and they still couldn’t be as terrifying as learning that someone in your family is seriously – and sometimes terminally – ill. Even more frightening? Learning that the cause of that illness came from exposure to something at work. It’s nightmare material.
Beware. Toxins abound.
Several toxic chemicals and...
The plaintiff, a self-made man living the “American Dream,” should be enjoying the fruits of his hard earned labor. But, after a devastating mesothelioma diagnosis, he has been battling for justice in a drawn out asbestos trial for months.
LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles jury ruled in favor of a man and his wife concluding an asbestos trial that has taken three months...
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