$322 Million is Single Largest Plaintiff’s Asbestos Verdict in U.S History (May 24, 2011) A verdict in favor of a Mississippi man was awarded $322 million in an asbestosis case against the defendants, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company and Union Carbide Corporation. Testimony given by the plaintiff to the Mississippi Circuit Court for Smith County jury [...]
(March 10, 2011) In recent years there has been a sharp increase in the number of asbestos settlement cases, in response to increasing numbers people suffering from asbestos-related diseases. Studies show that most people have developed several lung diseases as mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure. The owners of production industries that use asbestos now in [...]
Identifying Asbestos in the Home (April 23, 2011) Asbestos Exposure has been a major concern for some time now but the majority of its focus has been in the industrial sector. For example, many buildings constructed after the 1860’s in the U.S and Canada contained high amounts of asbestos in its concrete, bricks, pipes and [...]
Worldwide Campaign to Ban Asbestos (February 5, 2011) Anti-asbestos advocates called for a worldwide campaign against the use of asbestos to reduce the increasing risk of mesothelioma cancer. Asbestos is a naturally occurring substance that became increasingly popular in the 19th and 20th centuries among manufacturing and construction industries because of its useful properties such [...]
2/24/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer Iowa” Iowa’s primary industry is agriculture; as a result, the rate of asbestos-related mortality in this state has been somewhat lower than other areas of the nation. Since 1979, 460 Iowans (out of a population of approximately 2.9 million) have lost their lives to asbestos diseases. The overwhelming majority of these were [...]
2/23/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer California” Were you aware that asbestos is the Golden State’s official mineral? Serpentine – the source of chrysotile asbestos – is found in abundance in the foothills of California’s three major mountain ranges. It should come as no surprise. Major asbestos operations are located in Quebec and upstate New York, which is [...]
2/23/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer Hawaii” Although geologically active, Hawaii differs from the continental U.S. in that its terrain was not formed from folding action resulting from the collision of tectonic plates, but from the building action of volcanoes. As a result, Hawaii is unique in that it is one of the few places in the world [...]
(February 1, 2011) In a report published Monday, a mesothelioma lawyer in New York said that 20 percent of mesotheliomacases remain unreported. A recent article in the journal of Environmental Health Perspectives estimated that for every four to five people worldwide who are diagnosed with mesothelioma, at least one case goes unreported. The mesothelioma attorney [...]
2/25/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer Virginia” When one looks at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry asbestos Map of the United States – which shows all naturally-occurring asbestos deposits in the country as well as areas in which it has been prospected and mined – one is struck by the pattern of such deposits that [...]
2/25/11, “Mesothelioma Lawyer Washington” Located in the mountainous Pacific Northwest, Washington state has its fair share of serpentine, from which chrysotile asbestos is produced. There are at least five “past producers” in the northern part of the state as well as numerous serpentine deposits in the central Cascades and in the Okanogan highlands in the [...]