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22 Jan 2015, 6:42 am by Walter Olson
More: The complaint (courtesy WSJ) alleges improprieties with income both from a real estate law firm and from asbestos legal cases. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 5:50 am by Joe Consumer
Donahue, you complain about lawsuits and announce the need for “legal reform,” i.e., laws that block everyday people from suing big corporations. [read post]
26 Dec 2014, 11:20 am by Jon Gelman
Over a career spanning more than three decades he has been involved in complex litigation involving thousands of clients challenging the mega-industries of: asbestos, tobacco and lead paint. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 12:38 pm by Schachtman
Amphibole asbestos, and most importantly, crocidolite causes malignant mesothelioma after a very lengthy latency period. [read post]
4 Oct 2014, 12:09 pm by Schachtman
Marxist historians Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale, and others, have attacked Bartrip for serving as an apologist for industry, and have suggested, in their publications, that Selikoff testified infrequently:= “[Selikoff] gave testimony in two of the early landmark legal cases, but thereafter avoided the drama of the courtroom and the role of the expert witness, not only because it would have been a drain on his time and made his confidentia [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 11:55 am
Fifth Avenue Chrysler Center, Inc,, 454 P.2d 244, 247 (Alaska 1969).ArizonaNo Arizona court has directly passed on innovator liability, but the federal district court in the Darvocetlitigation twice held that the theory was incompatible with Arizona law. [read post]
23 Jun 2014, 12:57 pm by Schachtman
Lowe’s Home Centers, Inc., 563 F.3d 171, 179, 183-84 (6th Cir. 2009). [read post]
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]
12 May 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
If you doubt lawyers can be heroes, consider Rashid Rehman, gunned down after defying death threats to represent professor in Pakistan blasphemy case [BBC] Some asbestos lawyers may have reason to be nervous as Garlock documents pave way for fraud-checking [Daniel Fisher/Forbes, Legal NewsLine] Given consumer groups’ zeal for making litigation data public, they’ll support greater transparency in asbestos settlements, right? [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 10:24 am by Joe Consumer
  The legal task now is to challenge the bankruptcy deal itself, which GM cut with full knowledge of this colossal ignition switch problem. [read post]
3 Jan 2014, 6:30 am by Michael B. Stack
homeNewMember=&gid=1922050/ SUBSCRIBE: Workers Comp Resource Center Newsletter   The post New Zealand Authorities Concerned Over Worksite Asbestos appeared first on Reduce Your Workers Compensation Insurance Coverage Costs with Timely Information for Employers | Work Comp Roundup. [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 8:30 am by Jon Gelman
The coal industry’s tactics mirror those of Big Tobacco, the lead and soda industries, the NFL, and pulp and paper giant Georgia-Pacific, which is conducting secret research and selectively withholding information to cast doubt on more than 60,000 legal claims filed by construction workers and others who Georgia-Pacific exposed to asbestos in the 1960s and ‘70s and are developing mesothelioma, a cancer nearly always caused by asbestos, today.Black lung, a… [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 5:40 am by Eric P. Robinson
He has also been a  staff attorney at the Media Law Resource Center and a legal fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 6:59 am by Joe Consumer
 As Professor Lonny Hoffman of the University of Houston Law Center testified in 2011, because it increased litigation, costs and was used in a discriminatory fashion, “there is a remarkable degree of agreement among judges, lawyers, legal scholars and litigants across the political spectrum that the 1983 amendment of Rule 11 was one of the most ill-advised procedural experiments ever tried. [read post]
23 Oct 2013, 8:15 am by Schachtman
Legal confidentiality protections should not be placed around good science. [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 6:08 am by Schachtman
  Before we advert to conspiracy theories and suggestions of mass attention deficit disorder, we need only remind ourselves that soon after the Congressional hearings, and the National Silicosis Conference, of the 1930s, Hirohito and Hitler occupied center stage. [read post]
17 Aug 2013, 11:43 am
In fact, it is the nation's largest manufacturer of industrial gasket products and has distribution centers established in some 75 countries. [read post]