A high-visibility, high interest criminal trial has opened in Italy over asbestos exposure that killed at least 2,200 former employees of the firm Eternit.  On trial are one wealthy Swiss national and an 88 year old member of Belgian nobility, both of whom worked with the company or served on the board at some point [...]

The Washington Post reports today on a former exhibit specialist who work at the National Air and Space Museum during his 28 year career with the Smithsonian Institute and who developed asbestosis as a result.  Richard Pullman, 54, has settled a lawsuit with the institution for $233,000, according to records obtained by The Post this [...]

Australian biotech firm Bionomics is going to a Stage II Clinical Trial with its anti-cancer chemotherapy drug, currently titled BNC105.  It will be tested on 60 mesothelioma patients in Australia, while a concurrent trial is conducted in the United States in association with the Hoosier Medical Group.
Bionomics chief executive Dr Deborah Rathjen said on Wednesday [...]

Libby, Montana has become an icon in the story of the destructive power of asbestos.  The W.R. Grace Company’s vermiculite mine located there operated until 1990 extracting vermiculite ore that was contaminated with asbestos.  The health impact on the community has been long established by a long history of asbestos cancer and other asbestos related [...]

The Wall Street Journal has published an overview of the asbestos litigation world as it exists at the end of 2009, from which several interesting facts emerge.  A major factor in ongoing asbestos litigation – suits filed by individuals who have suffered health problems from asbestos exposure – has been the trust funds established by [...]