Even though asbestos may no longer be in most new consumer products, it remains present in many older consumer products. Asbestos, a naturally occurring mineral made of flexible and soft fibers that are heat and corrosion resistant, was used years ago in many consumer products without regard to i...
New data compiled by the Institute for Health Metric Evaluation (IHME) states that 40,764 deaths occurred in 2019 alone following occupational asbestos exposure. If this figure is correct, it means one American dies from an asbestos-related illness every 12 minutes. These new findings replace pre...
After being subjected to a lot of pressure, the United States Environmental Protection Agency recently agreed to address its asbestos data collection deficiencies. Early June 2021, Rob Bonta, California's Attorney General, announced that the EPA has finally agreed to initiate rulemaking to gather...
A cosmetics talc supplier embroiled with a group of 24 other defendants in a talcum powder mesothelioma cancer lawsuit has reached a settlement agreement with the plaintiff just four days into the trial for an undisclosed amount. That same company, Whittaker, Clark, & Daniels, was ordered just on...
A California jury recently handed down a substantial multi-million-dollar verdict in an asbestos cancer case brought on behalf of a 78-year-old Vietnam War veteran who passed away from mesothelioma due to exposure to carcinogens in the cosmetics product he used for decades. In their verdict, the ...
Pharmaceutical and cosmetics giant Johnson & Johnson recently filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of overturning a multi-billion dollar award handed down by a Missouri state court to nearly two dozen plaintiffs who claim they developed various forms of cancer from years of using th...
A California appeals court recently upheld a substantial multimillion dollar jury verdict handed down in a mesothelioma cancer lawsuit brought by a husband and wife to claim that the husband's rare form of cancer was caused by his employer's negligent use of carcinogenic building materials. In it...
Pharmaceutical and cosmetics giant Johnson & Johnson recently revealed in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the company has set aside just under $4 billion in “talc related reserves” to cover billions in settlements related to lawsuits claiming that the company's talcum pow...
A New York City judge recently denied a defendant asbestos company's request to have a take-home mesothelioma cancer lawsuit thrown out of court, finding that the arguments brought by the defendant's lawyers on its behalf were insufficient to have the matter tossed out. As a result, the plaintiff...
Wildfires ravaged forests in the state of Montana are putting a so-called SuperFund site contaminated with asbestos at risk of spreading carcinogenic particles in the air, which could endanger the lives of not only the fire crews battling the blaze but also residents nearby. The perils faced by t...
The surviving son of a deceased Frito-Lay employee has filed a proposed class action lawsuit against his father's former company alleging that his father passed away from cancer due to asbestos exposure at the factory where he worked. The claim filed by the Texas man seeks to recover compensation...
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra recently secured a ruling from a U.S. District Court to compel the Environmental Protection Agency to improve its data collection practices accounting for the importation of asbestos-containing products into the United States. The ruling by U.S. District...
A recent study commissioned by an advocacy nonprofit group has determined that the methods used by cosmetics companies to test the safety of the talc in their products are inadequate and that as many as 15% of talc-based consumer products could contain deadly asbestos fibers. The study, commissio...
The Montana Supreme Court recently took up oral arguments on the appeal of a $100 million judgment that ordered an insurance company to pay the state for damages that it itself was ordered to pay to victims of asbestos exposure at a vermiculite mine. The state of Montana is seeking payments from ...
The global COVID-19 pandemic has hit all facets of our society hard, but some already long-suffering communities in our country are being especially impacted due to a decades-long health crisis. One such place is Libby, Montana, where a now shuttered vermiculite mine has poisoned the soil, air, a...
Congress recently failed to pass a bill that would have amended an existing federal law to prohibit the manufacturing and sales of asbestos, or any other products that contain the deadly carcinogen. The impasse came after the bill failed to pass through the House of Representatives when partisan ...
As we just recently observed National Mesothelioma Awareness Day, there is perhaps no better time than now for Congress to take formal action to finally and officially ban the use of asbestos across the country once and for all. While federal legislation dating back to the 1970s effectively banne...
In what was one of the first mesothelioma cancer trials conducted via videoconferencing, a California jury has handed down a multimillion dollar verdict in favor of a former Navy Admiral who claimed he developed a serious form of cancer due to asbestos exposure from products manufactured by the d...
A New York court recently denied an attempt by the defendant in a talcum powder mesothelioma cancer lawsuit to have the case dismissed, which paves the way for the plaintiffs to have their day in court and seek justice for the harm caused by the defendant's alleged negligence. In its ruling, the ...
A Minnesota appeals court recently denied a motion by the defendant-asbestos manufacturer in a mesothelioma cancer lawsuit to dismiss the case on the grounds that the company had long since left the state. In its ruling, the Court of Appeals of Minnesota upheld the lower trial court's decision no...
A Pennsylvania federal judge recently denied motions by the defendants in a talcum powder asbestos cancer lawsuit to exclude the testimony of several expert witnesses for the plaintiffs, thereby allowing the case to proceed as scheduled. Pharmaceutical and cosmetics giant Johnson & Johnson had so...
A Delaware judge has ruled that the sworn statements of a plaintiff who died just days before he was scheduled to give a deposition in an asbestos injury lawsuit may be admitted into evidence in the case, despite the objections of defense attorneys representing the defendant. The ruling from the ...
Some of the biggest cosmetics companies in the world are beginning to remove talc from the list of ingredients in their makeup products, likely due in no small part to the slew of multi-million-dollar verdicts being handed down by juries across the United States. Some of the high-profile companie...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released the sixth and final part of its year-long sampling assignment of testing talc-based cosmetics products for asbestos contamination, which was performed by an outside laboratory. Those testing services were performed by Lanham, Maryland-...
The Montana state supreme court recently handed down an important ruling in a class action asbestos lawsuit against the insurer of a long-time operator of a vermiculite mine and processing facility in the state, alleged to have caused the debilitating health conditions of local residents. The Cou...
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