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15 Jun 2014, 10:36 am by Schachtman
’ This type of procedure does not allow proof that a particular defendant’s asbestos ‘really’ caused a particular plaintiff’s disease; the only ‘fact’ that can be proved is that in most cases the defendant’s asbestos would have been the cause. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 5:00 am by Jon Robinson
  During his employment for a number of employers, Claimant’s father (“Decedent”), was allegedly exposed to asbestos and welding fumes. [read post]
5 Mar 2014, 12:14 am
The asbestos trust funds generally keep claims secret in order to protect the private health records of claimants. [read post]
20 Feb 2014, 10:02 am by Lebowitz & Mzhen
The court created a committee to represent the interests of current asbestos claimants and a representative for any possible future claimants. [read post]
14 Feb 2014, 5:43 am by Schachtman
(Think about how knowledgeable the United States Navy was about the hazards of asbestos insulation products it bought for ship building.) [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 8:48 am
Some companies no longer operate, but still have trustees managing these asbestos bankruptcy trusts as claimants continue to emerge decades after exposure. [read post]
17 Jan 2014, 5:49 am by Walter Olson
I wrote about the coaching of asbestos claimants to “remember” working with certain products and not others in my 2004 book The Rule of Lawyers and in this earlier Reason column. [read post]
8 Jan 2014, 12:59 pm by Joe Consumer
  First, it would like the Senate to pass the House-passed bill, H.R. 982, the so-called “Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act” (FACT Act), [which] does two things: 1) it requires asbestos trusts to disclose on a public web site private, confidential information about every asbestos claimant and their families, including their names, addresses, where they work, how much they make, some medical information, how much they received in… [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 9:22 am by David Bernstein
Defense lawyers in Bendectin, silicone, and asbestos cases developed arguments against specious use of epidemiologic evidence, as well as sophisticated, affirmative use of epidemiologic evidence to show lack of association. [read post]
4 Jan 2014, 9:47 am by Schachtman
Over the 20 years following the UNARCO 17,  Selikoff went on to have an active testimonial career, always testifying for the claimant, always testifying against the employer or the supplier.[1]  In 1972, Andrew Haas, President of the asbestos workers union thanked Selikoff for his frequent expert witness testimony on behalf of union members. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 8:08 am by Schachtman
  Defense lawyers in Bendectin, silicone, and asbestos cases developed arguments against specious use of epidemiologic evidence, as well as sophisticated, affirmative use of epidemiologic evidence to show lack of association. [read post]
7 Dec 2013, 1:57 am by Jon Gelman
Nocera makes light of a claimant’s assertion that she was subjected to asbestos exposure because she lived in a house with relatives who worked with asbestos, but numerous studies link household exposure (often called “bystander exposure”) with asbestos disease. [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 4:35 am by Jon Gelman
In this second iteration, a majority of the Court concluded that the 104 week limitation on temporary total disability (TTD) did apply to the claimant, Mr. [read post]
28 Nov 2013, 1:41 pm by SJM
The Claimant’s application for relief from sanctions was heard about 6 weeks later and involved the vacation of a hearing involving victims of asbestos exposure. [read post]
28 Nov 2013, 1:41 pm by SJM
The Claimant’s application for relief from sanctions was heard about 6 weeks later and involved the vacation of a hearing involving victims of asbestos exposure. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 2:27 am by Jon Gelman
 workers' compensation act to shield themselves from negligence actions for silicosis and asbestosis claims.The creativity of claimant's lawyers, and the blatant intentional tort acts of unscrupulous asbestos companies, brought forth a sweeping change in the economic balance as claimants used the civil justicesystem to establish an avenue for adequate compensation for asbestos victims (lung cancer, asbestosis and mesothelioma claims). [read post]