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9 Aug 2011, 6:27 am by Walter Olson
Illinois courts may finally be tiring of liberal applications of “civil conspiracy” doctrine under which “Asbestos companies bear a sort of collective guilt and thus plaintiffs can sue companies they never actually had any contact with. [read post]
8 May 2009, 2:27 pm
"Chemical Company Is Acquitted in Asbestos Case": The New York Times has this news update. [read post]
10 May 2016, 5:30 am by Kori Shafer-Stack
  Upper Hutt-based company Hutt Construction 2013 Limited was fined $26,812.50 and ordered to pay $7,500 in reparations for failing to properly identify and manage asbestos at a demolition site. [read post]
26 Apr 2013, 12:05 pm
Many companies have been forced to undergo bankruptcy, and establish asbestos illness trusts, for this very reason. [read post]
16 Dec 2017, 7:52 am
Asbestos removal procedures were not correctly implemented by the management of the company. [read post]
1 Sep 2018, 9:20 am by Jon L. Gelman
” Yet the EPA’s response is not to ban all uses of asbestos, but to create an avenue for companies to present new uses of asbestos for EPA approval. [read post]
20 Oct 2017, 7:47 am
These diseases were well-documented throughout the years by individuals who claimed financial compensation by filing a lawsuit against the liable companies or a claim with their asbestos trust funds. [read post]
23 Jan 2016, 6:51 am by Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman
While the companies were well aware of the dangers of asbestos and even to steps to hide this fact, the general public did not know the full dangers of the hazardous material until the late 1970s and early 1980s. [read post]
12 Aug 2014, 9:44 pm
Our Boston mesothelioma lawyers understand one of the most important parts of any lawsuit is being able to establish which companies or individual defendants are responsible for asbestos exposure that could have happened many years ago. [read post]
9 May 2014, 6:00 am by Joe Consumer
Companies still use it, workers are still exposed to it and 10,000 Americans still die from asbestos-related illnesses every year. [read post]
28 Feb 2014, 12:19 am
Unfortunately, an incident of careless asbestos handling by an Essex demolition company has endangered countless people recently as a result of the company's complete failure to follow best practices when handling asbestos. [read post]
3 Jan 2017, 1:46 pm by Edward Smith
Secondary Asbestos Exposure and Mesothelioma I’m Ed Smith, a Sacramento mesothelioma lawyer. [read post]
20 Jul 2023, 5:28 am by Bob Kraft
Such companies are expected to set up asbestos bankruptcy trusts—a mechanism that protects the assets of a company from liability claims after it has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [read post]
27 Dec 2018, 9:49 am by Edward Smith
In 1973, only two years later, a second company executive raised another red flag and stated that the company shouldn’t assume that their talc mines were free of asbestos. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 3:23 pm
The asbestos company tried to prevent his family from applying the consumer expectation test at the time of trial. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 5:06 am by Jon Gelman
Budd and Kraus both sit on the boards of several of these trusts.The White House and the Office of Management and Budget did not respond to a request for comment.The trusts allow companies with significant liabilities to secure protection for future claims, but often have advisory committees made up of people from the same law firms that represent the asbestos clients.The Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency (FACT) Act — backed by business interests such as the… [read post]
15 Aug 2015, 6:15 am by Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman
MassDEP also ordered the recycling company to hire a certified asbestos abatement company to properly contain and remove all of the asbestos on their property at once. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 10:06 am
For their role in a Boston asbestos exposure case, four companies could be required to pony up an estimated $80,000 in penalties. [read post]