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Navy Veterans Alert: Leslie Controls Created $75 Million Asbestos Trust

Legislation & Litigation The pre-negotiated Chapter 11 reorganization plan filed by Leslie Controls, Inc., was affirmed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, allowing the Tampa-based company to emerge... Read More

Tim Povtak

02/17/12

Panel Expected to Add Mesothelioma to 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund

Legislation & Litigation Mesothelioma is expected to be one of the cancers covered when a special advisory panel makes its recommendations next month on expanding the $2.8 billion Zadroga 9/11 Health and... Read More

Tim Povtak

02/16/12

Manufacturer Lobbies State Government to Adjust Asbestos Lawsuit Laws

Legislation & Litigation Crown Holdings Inc., a large Philadelphia-based can manufacturer, is lobbying the Minnesota state government to change the law to prevent future asbestos lawsuits from harming the company. The $8... Read More

Mark Hall

02/16/12

Italian Court Sends Eternit Asbestos Executives to Jail

Legislation & Litigation In a message that could reverberate in courtrooms around the world, a three-judge panel in Turin, Italy, found two former executives of an asbestos-products conglomerate guilty of involuntary manslaughter,... Read More

Tim Povtak

02/13/12

Libby’s Asbestos Victims Are Now Receiving Settlements

Legislation & Litigation The long wait is coming to a drawn-out end. More than a decade after first filing a lawsuit against the state for a failure to warn them of the... Read More

Tim Povtak

01/31/12

Conoco Appeals $15.2M Award to Worker Exposed to Asbestos

Legislation & Litigation Conoco Phillips Corp., knowing a lengthy list of plaintiffs from the oil drilling industry are awaiting, began oral arguments today before the Mississippi State Supreme Court in its appeal... Read More

Tim Povtak

01/30/12

Trial Starts for Men Accused of Illegally Removing Asbestos from Salvage Site

Legislation & Litigation The trial of three men accused of illegally removing asbestos from a salvage site has finally begun, six years since officials say the incident occurred. An 11-count federal indictment... Read More

Mark Hall

01/13/12

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EPA, Federal Courts Continue Crackdown on Violations of Asbestos Regulations

Legislation & Litigation The Environmental Protection Agency continues its crackdown on asbestos-related violations, filing suit in federal district court this week against Lovett Contracting, Inc., which it says performed illegal demolition work... Read More

Tim Povtak

01/10/12

Mississippi Judge Throws Out Record $322 Million Lawsuit Verdict

Legislation & Litigation The largest single-plaintiff asbestos verdict in U.S. history was erased when a Mississippi judge tossed the jury’s decision because of a conflict of interest by the judge who presided... Read More

Faith Franz

01/05/12

Deadline Approaching for Pending 9/11 Lawsuits, Compensation Fund

Legislation & Litigation Anyone with pending litigation stemming from personal health issues surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York City must decide by Jan. 2, 2012 whether to continue the lawsuit,... Read More

Tim Povtak

12/29/11

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Navy Veterans Alert: Leslie Controls Created $75 Million Asbestos Trust

Panel Expected to Add Mesothelioma to 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund

Manufacturer Lobbies State Government to Adjust Asbestos Lawsuit Laws

Italian Court Sends Eternit Asbestos Executives to Jail

Libby’s Asbestos Victims Are Now Receiving Settlements

Conoco Appeals $15.2M Award to Worker Exposed to Asbestos

Trial Starts for Men Accused of Illegally Removing Asbestos from Salvage Site

EPA, Federal Courts Continue Crackdown on Violations of Asbestos Regulations

Mississippi Judge Throws Out Record $322 Million Lawsuit Verdict

Deadline Approaching for Pending 9/11 Lawsuits, Compensation Fund

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