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2. 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 ...

3. Asbestos and the law - Wikipedia

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   The first employee claims for injury from exposure to asbestos in the workplace were made in 1927, [64] and the first lawsuit against an asbestos manufacturer was filed in 1929. [65] Since then, many lawsuits have been filed.

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

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   The Walder and Wells lawsuit is the first so-called community exposure case against BNSF to go to trial, almost 25 years after federal authorities arrived in Libby following news reports about ...

5. 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.

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. $6 million awarded in asbestos lawsuit against Ford, others - AOL

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   A St. Louis jury has ruled that Ford Motor Co. and other companies must pay $6 million to a Missouri family over claims that a woman's death was caused by exposure to asbestos, including from dust ...

8. Health clinic in Montana Superfund town faces penalties for ...

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   The case stemmed from a civil lawsuit filed by BNSF against the town's Center for Asbestos Related Disease health clinic, or CARD, in 2019 under the False Claims Act, which allows private parties ...

9. Chandler v Cape plc - Wikipedia

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   David Chandler had been employed by a wholly owned subsidiary company of Cape plc for just over 18 months, between 1959 and 1962. In 2007, Chandler discovered that as a result of exposure to asbestos during that period of employment, he had developed asbestosis. The subsidiary no longer existed and had no policy of insurance covering claims for ...