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2 Apr 2020, 3:27 am
A successful asbestos claimant must prove 5 years of exposure to asbestos prior to 1980. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 2:37 pm
Presently, asbestos litigation cases come in many different shapes and sizes, some as individual claimants against individual employers, others as thousands of claimants against dozens of employers and manufacturers in class-action lawsuits. [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 5:06 am
As David Owsiany notes in a short paper (PDF) for the Buckeye Institute, Ohio has gone a fair distance already toward asbestos reform by way of legislation restricting recovery to claimants with actual medical indications of disease. [read post]
29 May 2017, 12:46 pm
To bring a successful legal claim, claimants have to trace their exposure to a defendant who is liable for failure to warn or protect against the dangers of asbestos. [read post]
2 Sep 2017, 6:58 am
This means that defendant knew or should have known their products were very dangerous and did nothing to warn or potential claimants. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 11:22 am
Codified in F.S. 774.202, the act was supposedly intended to preserve funds for future asbestos injury claimants. [read post]
17 Jul 2009, 7:43 am
Despite the famously opaque nature of the administration of bankrupt asbestos defendants' trusts, Kirk Hartley has been doing some digging and finding surprisingly large payout numbers (more than $700,000/claimant) in one case whose details made it into court documents.... [read post]
8 Dec 2006, 9:03 pm
Its conclusion: current proposals for legislated asbestos compensation would do a better job of compensating claimants than many opponents are willing to admit, but are likely to prove a good deal... [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 6:07 am
In the Brooklyn Law Review, Jane Stapleton (law, Australian National University and University of Texas) observes that U.S. courts have created special rules excusing asbestos claimants from expected requirements of proof of causation, using separate approaches for asbestosis and for... [read post]
4 Sep 2017, 6:46 am
This is not to say punitive damages are available in every case, but this is something about which claimants should speak to their experienced Boston asbestos exposure lawyers. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 4:48 am
During the recent debates over the funding of litigation proposals to restrict the rights of claimants in mesothelioma cases (this is the worst of the asbestos related illnesses, almost only ever caused by asbestos and almost always fatal). [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 2:18 pm
According to some legal experts, the court decision could make it easier for thousands of Florida personal injury claimants affected by asbestos to pursue cases which have been stalled in lower courts. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 11:17 pm
Moreover, because asbestos claimants are often the largest class of creditors in asbestos-related bankruptcy proceedings, their lawyers play a major role in deciding who receives payouts from the trusts and how much they get. [read post]
25 Nov 2020, 12:04 am
It can also have an impact on the amount of compensation a claimant can recover from asbestos trust funds, as the sum of money victims of asbestos exposure are eligible for depends primarily on their diagnosis. [read post]
25 Oct 2017, 11:40 am
Eventually, Asea Brown Boveri filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection, which included a reorganization plan for the company and creating an asbestos trust fund to compensate current and future claimants. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 4:18 am
It is important to note that this ruling, and even others like it, may not necessarily reduce the amount of money to be paid out to future claimants, but rather cause the company who acquired the bankrupt entity to pay out of another fund. [read post]
29 Sep 2014, 6:00 am
Rob has particular expertise in defending cases arising under the Longshore Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, as well as in maritime and asbestos litigation. [read post]
8 Aug 2017, 4:11 am
The primary consumer of asbestos is the chlor-alkali industry, which accounted for nearly 100% of asbestos use during 2018. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 9:33 am
Instead, it's a question of trying to find a system that adequately balances the rights of present claimants (those already sick) and future claimants (that unknown number of people who will become sick). [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 8:50 am
Accident at work claims involving exposure to asbestos, which can cause various debilitating and terminal conditions including asbestos, mesothelioma and other types of cancer, invariably describe instances in which the claimants have inhaled or ingested tiny asbestos fibres. [read post]
