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3 May 2009, 10:09 pm
Asbestos-litigation edition, with a special nod to the Global Tort blog, which has been providing much coverage of the subject: Controversy heats up in Scotland and London over Scottish legislation to open up compensation over pleural plaques [March, April posts,... [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 9:07 pm by Walter Olson
" [Michael Fox] California as "litigation magnet"? [read post]
5 Feb 2007, 8:38 am
Cleveland Plain Dealer profiles judge Harry Hanna, who cracked down on abusive asbestos litigation in his Cuyahoga County courtroom (more here and here): Brayton Purcell "chose to weave a seemingly endless web of deceit," customizing each of its claims to... [read post]
8 Feb 2010, 5:00 am by Jon L. Gelman
Returning shoulders now reveal they have been exposed to asbestos and other toxic substances. [read post]
20 Jan 2015, 6:43 am by Schachtman
Folta’s asbestos exposure occurred at his Ferro workplace, from 1966 to 1970, during which time raw asbestos and many finished asbestos product suppliers provided warnings about the dangers of asbestos inhalation. [read post]
14 May 2009, 5:35 am
There has been a lot of talk in the mainstream media lately about a revival of sorts in asbestos litigation. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 3:10 am by Matrix Legal  Information Team
The appeals concerned the scope of the insurers’ obligations to indemnify employers against their liabilities towards employees who have contracted mesothelioma following exposure to asbestos. [read post]
22 Apr 2010, 5:00 am by Sean Wajert
There are potentially significant risks, however, associated with mass tort litigation exposure, such as in asbestos, and thus buyers must proceed carefully. [read post]
7 Apr 2008, 12:37 pm
Grace shares were trading at $26.78 late Monday morning, up 8 percent; Rights to proceeds of Grace's asbestos-related insurance coverage; The value of cash and stock under settlements of litigation with Sealed Air Corp. and Fresenius Medical Care Holdings. [read post]
19 Feb 2013, 2:47 pm by Schachtman
  The Lancet article conveniently omits any reference to the remunerative and unremunerative work by these gentlemen for the American anti-asbestos litigation industry. [read post]
8 Jan 2015, 9:44 am
Pa. 2012); In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation  (No. [read post]
3 Apr 2024, 2:00 am by Simmons Hanly Conroy
It’s important to share Nellie’s story because it lies at the heart of the asbestos epidemic and the following decades of mesothelioma litigation. [read post]
18 Nov 2011, 8:48 am
As a result of the litigation, manufacturers sold off subsidiaries, diversified, produced asbestos substitutes, and started asbestos removal businesses. [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 1:21 pm by Schachtman
  All allegations from the plaintiffs’ litigation world were accepted as true, and the asbestos mining industry was cast as a manufacturer of doubt and deception. [read post]
17 Oct 2019, 9:23 am by Simmons Hanly Conroy
Funds Raised This year, the race raised $25,000 for the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), a non-profit dedicated to securing a global ban of asbestos and providing support to victims of asbestos-related diseases. [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 11:44 am by Jeffrey Risman
Known as the Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency (FACT) Act, it was passed by a margin of 220 to 201 in the House of Representatives and is likely to reach the Senate soon. [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 11:44 am by Jeffrey Risman
Known as the Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency (FACT) Act, it was passed by a margin of 220 to 201 in the House of Representatives and is likely to reach the Senate soon. [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 3:30 am by Robin J. Effron
Bankruptcy offered an attractive forum for aggregating and resolving or settling such claims, and courts cut their teeth on bankruptcy-as-mass-tort-aggregator in the large asbestos cases that overwhelmed courts in the second half of the twentieth century. [read post]