An amendment has quietly been slipped into the Wisconsin state budget currently before the legislature that would limit the liability of companies who bought firms prior to 1972 that proved to have massive asbestos liability exposure.  The bill is designed to protect the Crown Cork & Seal Company of Philadelphia which according to the Wisconsin […]

The July issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has a report on mesothelioma mortality for the first five years of the new millenium.  The article is based on a report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) analyzing mesothelioma deaths from 1999 - 2005.  For that period 18,068 deaths attributed to […]

On June 17th the EPA declared its first-ever “public health emergency” in a belated response to the massive outbreak of asbestos related diseases in Libby, Montana.  The federal agency has allocated $6 million dollars to pay for healthcare costs related to mesothelioma and other health problems that have developed in Montana residents who worked in […]

The family of a retired Navy sailor who developed mesothelioma cancer from his exposure to asbestos on the job has been awarded $1.2 million in damages.  Virginia resident Gerald Gray was exposed to asbestos decades ago when he was stationed aboard a ship for four years and following that duty, was stationed at a Navy […]

Attorneys for asbestos liability claimants have challenged the General Motors bankruptcy plan, claiming their exclusion from the process is unconstitutional.  Attorneys representing current sufferers from asbestosis and mesothelioma argued that future claimants who may not yet have been diagnosed with an asbestos related disease have been excluded from the proceedings and require representation.
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