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Thomas Franklyn Manville Jr. (April 9, 1894 – October 8, 1967) was an American socialite and heir to the Johns-Manville asbestos fortune. He was a celebrity in mid 20th-century Manhattan due to both his inherited wealth and his record-breaking 13 marriages to 11 women, which won him an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Lyeth v. Hoey, 305 U.S. 188 (1938), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that property received by an heir under a settlement agreement resolving a dispute over the decedent's will is property acquired by "inheritance," which exempts the value of such property from the income tax.
Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that develops from the thin layer of tissue that covers many of the internal organs (known as the mesothelium). [10] The area most commonly affected is the lining of the lungs and chest wall.
[4] [5] The trial, which took place in South Carolina’s 5th Judicial Circuit Court, was led by a team of attorneys from the law firm Dean Omar Branham Shirley, known for its success in asbestos-related cases. [1] On August 15, 2024, the jury award $63.4 million to the plaintiff. This verdict represents one of the largest awards in such cases ...
Paul's mother, Clara Kraus, a Hungarian Jew, had a two-year-old boy, Peter, and was pregnant with Paul when the Nazis deported her and her children to Auschwitz concentration camp. [5] Due to rail destruction by Allied bombing, they were sent to a forced labor camp established in the Viehofen flood plain near St. Pölten , Lower Austria . [ 6 ]
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.
In order to marry Mary Lily, Henry Morrison Flagler had to obtain a divorce from his second wife, who had become mentally ill over the course of their marriage. [6] At that time, one had to cite certain specific reasons for divorce, as no-fault divorce did not yet exist.
Miriam Adelson (née Farbstein; born 10 October 1945) is an Israeli-American physician, businesswoman, and political donor.. She was married to Sheldon Adelson, founder of the Las Vegas Sands casino company and the Israel Hayom newspaper, from 1991 until his death in 2021.