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2. Profitable companies are dodging asbestos lawsuits. A ... - AOL

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   Charlotte’s bankruptcy court has become a national haven for multibillion-dollar companies facing lawsuits from people sickened by asbestos.

3. Michael Perry v. American International Industries - Wikipedia

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   Michael Perry v. American International Industries is a lawsuit filed in 2023 in which a South Carolina jury awarded $63.4 million to Michael Perry, a man diagnosed with mesothelioma, a terminal cancer caused by asbestos exposure.

4. Asbestos and the law (United States) - Wikipedia

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   Asbestos litigation is the longest, most expensive mass tort in U.S. history, involving more than 8,000 defendants and 700,000 claimants. [1] By the early 1990s, "more than half of the 25 largest asbestos manufacturers in the US, including Amatex, Carey-Canada, Celotex, Eagle-Picher, Forty-Eight Insulations, Manville Corporation, National Gypsum, Standard Insulation, Unarco, and UNR Industries ...

5. Asbestos and the law - Wikipedia

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   Corporations that allegedly conspired with asbestos manufacturers to deliberately conceal the dangers of asbestos (e.g., MetLife, a well-known insurance company which worked with Johns-Manville); Manufacturers of tools which were used to cut or shape asbestos-containing parts; and

6. J&J gets $260 million talc verdict overturned in Oregon, new ...

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   (Reuters) -A state judge in Oregon has overturned a jury's $260 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a lawsuit brought by a woman who said she got mesothelioma, a deadly cancer linked to ...

7. Judge orders Montana health clinic to pay nearly $6 million ...

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   A health clinic in a Montana town plagued by deadly asbestos contamination must pay the government almost $6 million in penalties and damages after it submitted hundreds of false asbestos claims ...

8. Asbestos bankruptcy trusts - Wikipedia

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   Typically an asbestos plaintiff is exposed to a mixture of products during a thirty-year career in the building trades. It takes between twenty and fifty years from first exposure to the development of asbestos-caused cancer, so work histories, employment, military and social security records are used to help prove the plaintiff's exposure to various asbestos products throughout his or her career.

9. Asbestos victims in Montana want Buffett's railroad company ...

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   The railroad — now owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. — hauled asbestos-tainted vermiculite from a nearby mine through Libby, Montana, over decades. ... filed a wrongful death ...