The removal and disposal of asbestos used as a building material is a dangerous, expensive and highly technical process. Contractors who work with the deadly substance usually need to hold a license from the state and require specialized equipment and safety precautions before undertaking any asbestos-related job. If proper procedures are not followed when working with asbestos, [...]
As reported by Associated Press, those who have lived in the town of Libby, MT for the last few decades have seen around 400 people die and an additional 1,750 suffer from asbestos-related diseases like mesothelioma cancer and asbestosis. Emotions and anxiety ran high recently when it was discovered the struggle is not yet over. This week, it was [...]
One of the more heartbreaking aspects of mesothelioma and asbestos cancer is that, despite the devastation that the diseases take on the families they effect, the public is largely not aware of the illnesses and the toll they take. Thankfully, a pair of new films are attempting to raise awareness regarding the dangers of the asbestos industry and [...]
The Co-Founder, President & CEO of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization is urging the government to take action and ban the importation of asbestos following the release of a report that documents a spike in U.S. asbestos consumption during the first half of 2011. Linda Reinstein, who founded the ADAO after her husband became sick [...]
More than 25 years after leaving her job as a machinist at a factory in England, a woman has died from mesothelioma that ws likely caused by asbestos exposure. According to the This Is Lincolnshire, 47-year-old Larraine Kirk developed mesothelioma 25 years after she worked as a machinist in a factory between 1980 and 1984. [...]
Several areas of a nursing home in Pennsylvania have tested positive for asbestos fibers. According to WFMZ, the Gracedale Nursing Home facility in Northampton County recently tested positive for asbestos after the deadly fibers were detected in certain areas of the building. Tom Harp, Northampton County’s director of administration, said that the Gracedale Safety Committee [...]
In what was described as the largest asbestos settlement in the history of Missouri, the family of a deceased Jackson County Courthouse employee has settled her asbestos lawsuit for $10 million. The lawsuit was filed by Nancy Lopez against the U.S. Engineering Co. over the company’s failure to take proper precautions to protect courthouse workers [...]
When repairs were needed on an old nuclear power plant in Surry, VA, contract workers were called in to do the work. Hundreds of workers were hired including electricians, pipe fitters, generallaborers and other contractors from eight different companies. When a dozen workers were caught in a cloud of asbestos after cutting some old pipe, [...]
The great-great niece of the founder of the first asbestos mine to ever open in Canada is speaking out against the continued production of asbestos at the Jeffry Mine in Quebec. Susan Henry is the descendant of Andrew Stuart Johnson, who founded the Johnson Mine Company in Thetford Mines in 1878. However, despite her heritage, [...]
Both plaintiffs and defendants in asbestos lawsuits agree that asbestos causes 80 to 90 percent of all mesothelioma cases. You would think that it naturally follows that 80 to 90 percent ofmesothelioma lawsuit plaintiffs do not have to prove to a jury thatasbestos exposure caused their mesothelioma. Until recently, that was not the case. Instead, [...]