Imagine a hammock that more and more people keep piling into without anybody getting out. The weight would quickly become too burdensome to bear and, sagging with a tangle of limbs and torsos, the rope would break. That’s what companies whose livelihoods were once asbestosdependent are like. With billions paid in asbestos settlements each year, the financial strain [...]
As the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy approaches, a newly published study offers hints of a possible link between exposure to chemicals released after New York’s World Trade Center collapsed and the development of cancer in firefighters who toiled at ground zero. The New York Times reports that the study, released in the British medical journal The Lancet, reveals that 9/11 [...]
If you read the last article we posted about asbestos trust funds, you’ll remember the clever hammock analogy used to describe what they are. If you didn’t read it, you can do so here. Now, the Government Accountability Office (GOA) – a sort of congressional watchdog group that keeps an eye on government spending of taxpayer dollars [...]
(May 21, 2011) History experts have reported that asbestos has been used to make many products for over 4,500 years and Greece is the location where the first known asbestos mine was established on the island of Ewoia. Its name means ‘inextinguishable’ and was labeled as such by the ancient Greeks, who also learned [...]
(May 21, 2011) Unfortunately, over ten-thousand workers from a wide variety of industries all across the United States have been victims of asbestos exposure and now are at a high risk of developing asbestosis, asbestos cancer, or mesothelioma. It has been estimated that in the United States alone 100,000 people have died from asbestos [...]
(May 18, 2011) Mesothelioma was labeled a rare type of cancer known to develop in the protective lining covering the body’s many internal organs identified as the mesothelium. The most common area to be infected is the pleura (internal chest wall and the outer lining of the lungs). Mesothelioma has also been known to [...]
(May 18, 2011) Asbestos is known as a combination of separable, fibrous minerals with long and thin fibers that are not detectable by taste or odor and can cause cancer of the lungs. Asbestos does not evaporate or dissolve in water and is fire, heat and chemical resistant. Asbestos exposure can be caused from [...]
(May 13, 2011) Questions are being raised about lawsuits in regards to “third party” asbestos exposure as more people are coming forward saying that they are being diagnosed with asbestosis and mesothelioma due to direct contact with someone who worked with or around asbestos. However, one of the main challenges by these plaintiffs is [...]
(May 10, 2011) A verdict in favor of a Mississippi man was awarded $322 million in an asbestosis case against the defendants, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company and Union Carbide Corporation. Testimony given by the plaintiff to the Mississippi Circuit Court for Smith County jury stated that the plaintiff developed the disease after being exposed to [...]
Wisconsin Mesothelioma Lawyers (May 18, 2011) – Sokolove Law has 30+ years of experience litigating mesothelioma cases, including many that involve Wisconsin citizens. The benefit of using a national mesothelioma law firm, such as Sokolove Law, is an increased ability to reach out of a particular state in order to maximize your settlement, whereas local [...]
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