A California appeals court recently issued a ruling in an asbestos cancer lawsuit allowing the plaintiffs to have their case reheard and pursue additional damages which were improperly excluded from consideration by the trial court. The case is being brought by the seven surviving children of the...
A former Illinois aircraft mechanic recently filed an asbestos cancer lawsuit against several defendants the plaintiff claims are responsible for the lung cancer diagnosis he received in 2017 after decades of exposure to the deadly carcinogen. The mesothelioma cancer lawsuit names CBS Corporation...
A California jury recently handed down a substantial verdict in an asbestos cancer case involving a plaintiff who developed mesothelioma as a result of secondhand exposure to asbestos fibers brought home on his father's work clothes. The jury's $11.4 million award included $5 million to the plain...
The daughter of an asbestos cancer victim who passed away from his disease recently filed asbestos lung cancer Illinois state court against her father's employer and several other defendants alleging the companies failed to exercise due care. The asbestos lung cancer lawsuit names Buffalo Air Han...
The family of a deceased Texas petroleum worker recently filed a mesothelioma cancer lawsuit against the victim's employer, Phillips 66, over allegations that the company knew about dangerous working conditions, including asbestos exposure, but did nothing to warn employees. The plaintiffs' lawsu...
The trial in an asbestos cancer lawsuit recently began in South Carolina, pitting the survivors of a mesothelioma patient against Johnson & Johnson, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, and the outlet of Rite Aid. The trial begins on the heels of a substantial multi-million dollar...
A California jury recently awarded a plaintiff $4 million in punitive damages after determining that pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson acted with malice when it produced and sold talcum powder products contaminated with deadly asbestos fibers. The punitive damages award comes just days after...
A Los Angeles jury recently handed down a substantial verdict in favor of a mesothelioma victim who filed an asbestos cancer lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, Cyprus Amax Minerals, Honeywell International, a unit of Brenntag and other local talc suppliers. In their verdict, ...
The widow of a man who passed away after decades of working in a San Francisco shipyard recently filed an asbestos cancer lawsuit against the federal contractor responsible for the cleanup efforts on which the victim worked. The mesothelioma cancer lawsuit names Pasadena, California-based Tetra T...
The first talc mesothelioma cancer trial in Florida recently began as both sides delivered their opening statements to the men and women of the jury who will ultimately decide whether the victim in this case finally receives justice. The plaintiff's lawsuit claims he developed malignant mesotheli...
The family of a mesothelioma cancer victim can breathe a small sigh of relief after a U.S. Appeals Court affirmed a lower District Court ruling that will send the asbestos injury lawsuit back to state court for trial. Attorneys for the defendant in the case had attempted to use a little known leg...
A former tile worker and a New York chemical company recently agreed to a settlement to resolve a multimillion dollar mesothelioma cancer lawsuit filed in Florida that claimed the defendant knowingly manufactured and distributed asbestos contaminated talc products. The settlement came almost at t...
The Colorado state senate is expected to take up a bill that could potentially have far reaching effects on the rights of mesothelioma cancer victims looking to recover vital compensation to help with their medical treatment and recovery of lost wages. The bill is one of several others passed in ...
A new bill recently introduced in the Indiana General Assembly would impose restrictions so severe on mesothelioma cancer victims that it may restrict any conceivable access to justice for those attempting to hold asbestos companies responsible for their greed and indifference to public safety. T...
The American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys is a third-party attorney rating organization that publishes an annual list of the Top 10 Personal attorneys. Attorneys who selected to the “10 Best” list must pass AIOPIA's rigorous selection process, which is based on client nominations, thor...
Residents of Libby, Montana, the site of one of the country's most serious asbestos related disasters, face some tough decisions in the next few weeks as the statute of limitations to file asbestos cancer lawsuits against the owner of an infamous vermiculite mine comes to a close. Thousands of to...
A second trial against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson over allegations that the company's talcum powder products caused a plaintiff's mesothelioma cancer recently began in Middlesex County, New Jersey, superior court. A previous trial over the asbestos cancer allegations in California fou...
While use of asbestos in industrial, commercial, and consumer products has been heavily regulated in the United States since the mid 1970s, millions of pounds of the carcinogenic mineral remain trapped in structures still standing to this day. When developers and construction companies renovate o...
Popular cosmetics chain-store Claire's recently pulled several of its products off shelves when it emerged that those items tested positive for asbestos contamination after a Providence, Rhode Island mother sent makeup out for testing. According to several media reports, tests performed by Scient...
A recent study published by European researchers indicates that there could be breakthroughs coming for oncologists to help them screen patients for mesothelioma and detect the disease sooner. Better screening techniques and earlier detection could drastically improve the prognosis for mesothelio...
After 16 years, the Montana Supreme Court has finally activated its special administrative court to hear asbestos cancer lawsuits related to the Libby vermiculite mine and claims against Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, the state of Montana, International Paper, and several insurance compan...
A Sonoma County, California judge recently ordered Sonoma State University to pay workers at the school $2.9 million in damages for violating state occupational health and safety laws over the improper handling of asbestos. The case was brought by a whistleblower working at the university who cla...
In the wake of the devastating California wildfires that displaced thousands across Sonoma and Marin and caused billions of dollars in property damages, area residents could be at risk from contaminants in their drinking water, including asbestos and other cancer-causing toxins. The threat to the...
New York-based Colgate-Palmolive recently agreed to settle a talcum powder asbestos lawsuit to resolve claims that its products caused the mesothelioma cancer of a New Jersey woman. The undisclosed settlement amount will compensate the victim for her cancer diagnosis without the company admitting...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that it would reduce the size of its review of several dangerous chemicals and substances, possibly excluding asbestos from the federal review which could effectively ban the cancer causing material. The review process, mandated by Cong...
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