The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization marks April 1 to 7 as Global Asbestos Awareness Week, a 22-year-old international campaign to prevent asbestos exposure and…
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ruth Kwan overturned a jury’s $950 million in punitive damages awarded to Mae K. Moore’s surviving children in…
A federal appeals court overturned an $8 million verdict against BNSF Railway, ruling the company can’t be held strictly liable for transporting asbestos-contaminated vermiculite…
A new study out of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center finds lung-sparing pleurectomy/decortication surgery…
Vanderbilt Minerals LLC is blaming mounting legal costs from more than 1,400 talc lawsuits for its decision to file for bankruptcy protection. According to…
A California appeals court refused to throw out a $51 million mesothelioma verdict against cosmetics giant Avon Products Inc. The California 2nd District Court…
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