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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 ...
Ban Date Algeria Argentina ... On April 2, 1998, three men were indicted in a conspiracy to use homeless men for illegal asbestos removal from an aging Wisconsin ...
The state circuit court dismissed her case. The court ruled that worker's compensation was her exclusive remedy. The Virginia state supreme court overturned the circuit court's decision in 2012. It found that because the Navy was not liable under worker's compensation Gibbs could file suit against Newport News. [3]
The agency’s announcement of the final rule applies to chrysotile asbestos, the only form of asbestos currently being used in or imported to the United States.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday finalized a rule that would ban using and importing cancer-causing asbestos, a material still used in some vehicles and in some industrial ...
Ashland County Auditor Cindy Funk talked about concerns dealing with employees and the public who are in building when work is being done. County Auditor shares concerns over asbestos removal in ...
Dennis dissented in a May 27, 2014 decision that denied relief to a husband whose wife died from mesothelioma due to asbestos fibers on her husband's work clothes. Dennis concluded that she was not given proper notice about proceedings against her husband's company, and even if she had been given proper notice, she was unaware of her exposure ...
An asbestos concern could slow renovations, but if they delay too long, Oklahoma County could lose the millions in federal dollars allocated for them.