As the 8th Annual International Asbestos Awareness Conference (Asbestos: An International Public Health Crisis) comes to an end today, an email from Libby, Montana, pops-up in my mailbox. It’s from a gentlemen who has just been diagnosed with Pleural Thickening – a common side effect of exposure to asbestos, and an early warning sign for...
Associate Judge Clarence Harrison will be deciding soon whether to revise the court’s 2013 asbestos advance trial docket. Robert Shultz, an attorney with Heyl Royster, presented a proposal recently that would eliminate a reservation system for preferred plaintiffs that corporations say has...
A GRIEVING daughter has issued a plea for help to piece together how her father contracted a killer strand of cancer. Julie Urwin watched helplessly as her father, Melvin, was ravaged by mesothelioma just three months after being diagnosed with the lung disease. And now the mother-of-one, from...
A former Rochdale Council employee, who was diagnosed with Mesothelioma, has been awarded a substantial settlement. Mesothelioma is a rare and aggressive form of terminal cancer that develops in the protective lining of the body’s internal organs, usually affecting the lungs or abdomen. it is...
NIAGARA FALLS — Buffalo-based law firm Lipsitz & Ponterio, LLC, was recognized in a feature titled “20 Leaders in Asbestos Law,” which ran in a recent issue of Newsweek magazine. According to the magazine’s editors, the firm is among 19 others recognized as...
Government responds to findings over asbestos deaths in Sedgemoor 4:30pm Monday 27th February 2012 in News SEDGEMOOR has an above the national average death rate for an asbestos related cancer, according to figures by a campaign group. the not-for-profit Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) show that from 2006 to the end...
It is said that a lawyer will go through any lengths to win a case; well here is something that will prove it right. Suing someone for negligence is growing popularity all over the world and today you will find many law firms striking it rich...
A WARBSTOW pensioner may have died after inhaling asbestos particles contained in her husband's clothes, an inquest has heard. Christine Pearl Radley's husband worked with asbestos in the Sixties and Seventies and she would regularly wash his clothes, Truro Coroner's Court was told on Wednesday....
Mesothelioma compensation is awarded to the plaintiff once the defendant in such a suit admits or is found liable causing the disease. Seeking this kind of compensation must always be of primary concern to those suffering from this form of...
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 billion manufacturer, which has three plants in southern Minnesota, has already paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in liability...