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The Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency (FACT) Act of 2015 (old bill number- H.R. 526, now Section 3 of H.R. 1927) is a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressman Blake Farenthold that would require asbestos trusts in the United States to file quarterly reports about the payouts they make and personal information on the victims who receive them in a publicly ...
The lawsuit claimed that two Goodyear employees, who were smokers, were exposed to asbestos while working at Goodyear. The verdict was $22 million. [1] According to The New York Post, in 2014 "Weitz & Luxenberg won a record $190 million in a consolidated trial for five mesothelioma victims who worked in different jobs for different employers." [5]
The case began in July 2023, when Michael Perry, a longtime user of Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder, was diagnosed with mesothelioma. Perry, used the powder daily due to an allergy to deodorants. His legal team argued that Johnson & Johnson had been aware of the asbestos contamination in its talc products since the 1970s but failed to warn ...
The plaintiffs were over 4,000 asbestos victims suffering from mesothelioma, including many Navy veterans, as well as an unknown number of future mesothelioma victims. [2] As noted by the court, mesothelioma "is always fatal, causing death essentially by suffocation within about eighteen months of diagnosis" and involves "a horrific death."
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The remaining 35% include pharmaceutical companies, labor unions, plaintiff and defendant attorneys, [2] and companies that have manufactured asbestos products. [3] To date, the foundation has funded over $11.5 million [4] in clinical research and is the host of the annual International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma.
The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors’ lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica ...
(Reuters) -Grubhub settled with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul on Tuesday for allegedly misleading customers about order fees, adding restaurants to ...