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Jury Awards $12.6M to Homeowner

Jury Awards $12.6M to Homeowner with Intermittent Exposure to Asbestos

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...

Mesothelioma Victim Awarded $15.25M

Family of Mesothelioma Victim Awarded $15.25M by Los Angeles County Jury

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...

Backing Away from the Abyss

Backing Away from the Abyss

Courts May be Starting to Get A Grip on Asbestos Litigation By Martha Neil, “ABA Journal The Lawyer’s Magazine”, Vol. 92. Reprinted by permission, ©ABA Journal 2006. ABA Journal and ABA Journal eReport are published by the American Bar Association.

For Years, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter has been pushing a plan for resolving the hundreds of...

WK Counsel Elected Parliamentarian of ATLA

WK Counsel Elected Parliamentarian of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America

Gary M. Paul Installed at ATLA’s 60th Annual Meeting

LOS ANGELES — Gary M. Paul, of Waters Kraus & Paul’ Los Angeles office, has been elected to a one-year term as parliamentarian of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), the world’s largest trial...

Jury Awards $25.7M to Homemaker

Jury Awards $25.7M to Homemaker for Household Exposure to Asbestos

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...

Asbestos Claims Decline, but Questions Rise

Asbestos Claims Decline, but Questions Rise

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...

What are my chances?

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