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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 ...
Asbestos abatement (removal of asbestos) has become a thriving industry in the United States. Strict removal and disposal laws have been enacted to protect the public from airborne asbestos. The Clean Air Act requires that asbestos be wetted during removal and strictly contained, and that workers wear safety gear and masks.
Some real-estate scammers operate by transferring a home's deed away from its rightful owners. The owner of a $137.5 million LA mansion says they're a victim of deed fraud and can't sell it.
The Utah State Prison underwent a full asbestos removal before its demolition. [10] New innovative methods for asbestos removal have been used. One example is the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s B238 building, where a track mounted wet cutting saw with a diamond blade was used in order to cut the building into small sections.
Because regular title insurance protects against defects that occurred up to the day you took ownership, it won’t help with title fraud. But so-called enhanced policies usually cover post-policy ...
Title insurance policies typically protect against impersonation or forgery so if it turns out scammers messed with the title of the property you bought or own, you'll have an insurer to help you ...
Each U.S. state has a recording act, a statute which dictates the legal procedure by which an individual claiming an interest in real property (real estate) formally establishes their claim to that property. The recordation of property rights becomes particularly significant where an unscrupulous dealer in land purports to sell the same tract ...
In New York, where deed theft was not a crime previously, a new law now names it a form of grand larceny and extends the statute of limitations, giving prosecutors at the state and local levels ...