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 [...]
New data from the largest life insurance company in the country suggests that mesothelioma claims have actually increased in the first half of 2011 compared to last year. This data may come as a disappointment to some hoping for a decline in mesothelioma cases. However, it also could be seen as a sign that asbestos [...]
Yet another notable public figure has passed away from mesothelioma. Seventy-year-old Frank Bender, a well-known forensic sculptor (or “recomposer of the dead” as he came to be known) passed away from mesothelioma in July after battling the deadly asbestos disease for nearly two years. Bender became well known throughout the U.S. – and attained local fame in [...]
A Kentucky man who spent nearly 30 years in the U.S. Navy as a fireman and boiler tender and is now suffering from mesothelioma has won a $32 million asbestos settlement for injuries and pain/suffering he has endured. According to WSAZ-TV, a New York jury awarded Ronald Dummitt $16 million for past pain and suffering, along with an additional [...]
Continually poor weather in Ohio has lead to the closing of a Reading school after concerns over damage to the building’s asbestos-laden roof and its potential to expose dangerous fibers to students and faculty. According to local television station FOX 19, Hilltop Elementary School was forced to close its doors last week so workers could get [...]
Finally, someone with significant power and visibility addresses the importance of removing asbestos from schools. Exposing children to carcinogens for years is now, thanks to the president, officially a bad idea. And, removing it can apparently create jobs. It’s a win, win. The American Jobs Act, which is intended to provoke jobs creation in the U.S., [...]
The family of a deceased Jackson County Courthouse employee recently settled the woman’s Missouri asbestos lawsuit for $10 million, the largest asbestos settlement in the state’s history. Nancy Lopez filed the asbestos lawsuit against the U.S. Engineering Co. for failing to take proper precautions to protect courthouse worker while handling asbestos, writes the Associated Press. For 27 years, Lopez had worked at the [...]
A Kentucky man who served in the Navy for nearly 30 years as a fireman and boiler tender and now has mesothelioma was recently awarded a $32 million asbestos settlement for injuries and pain/suffering by a New York jury, according to WSAZ-TV report. Ronald Dummitt was awarded the settlement on August 17. The verdicts stated that he would receive $16 million for past [...]
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 asbestos dependent are like. With billions paid in asbestossettlements each year, the financial strain of [...]
(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 [...]
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