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‘Asbestos Litigation’ Category

Makeup Products Made for Children Contain Asbestos

Asbestos in Children's Makeup

Makeup Products Made for Children Contain Asbestos

Playing with toy makeup can expose children to dangerous carcinogens like asbestos, according to tests conducted by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit organization dedicated to exposing the use of health-threatening chemicals in the environment.

Asbestos Found in Talc-Based Children’s Makeup 

“It seems every time someone tests talc-based toys for the deadly...

Prison Inmates Forced to Do Dangerous Work for “Slave Wages”

Prisoner Labor Concerns

Prison Inmates Forced to Do Dangerous Work for “Slave Wages”

Inmates of the New York State correctional system have been performing dangerous jobs like asbestos removal for little compensation, according to a December 2022 article published by The Intercept.

Corcraft is the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision division responsible for hiring inmates for manufacturing jobs. The Corcraft website states: “We employ...

Alabama Chemical Workers Exposed to Dangerous Asbestos for Years

Alabama Asbestos Exposure

Alabama Chemical Workers Exposed to Dangerous Asbestos for Years

Asbestos exposure has long been known to cause health problems, including the deadly cancer mesothelioma. Because of that, it has been removed from many products in which it was previously commonplace, and specific protections are required when people encounter it. But a group of workers in an Alabama chlorine plant says they’ve been exposed to asbestos as recently as 2019 with no protection...

Johnson & Johnson’s Involvement in Unethical Asbestos Experiments on Inmates Revealed

Asbestos Experiments

Johnson & Johnson’s Involvement in Unethical Asbestos Experiments on Inmates Revealed

As Johnson & Johnson (J&J) battles lawsuits claiming it was aware its popular talcum-based baby powder might have been contaminated with asbestos, shocking new information about the drug company’s involvement in unethical experiments on prisoners in the early 1970s has come to light.

According to newly unsealed court documents, J&J funded a study in 1971 in which asbestos...

Honoring warriors lost to asbestos, toxic exposure on Memorial Day

Veteran Asbestos Exposure

Honoring warriors lost to asbestos, toxic exposure on Memorial Day

The numbers are startling: the United States’ 16.5 million veterans make up just 6.4% of the nation’s adult population, yet they account for 30% of all people diagnosed with mesothelioma, a deadly form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

The sobering numbers are the fallout of the U.S. Armed Forces’ widespread and decades-long use of asbestos, which at one point was used by...

The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos. These Workers are Paying the Price.

Asbestos exposure

The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos. These Workers are Paying the Price.

The stories about the dangers of asbestos exposure are horrifying and all too common: mesothelioma, lung, laryngeal and ovarian cancer, and ultimately death. But despite the well-known risks of the dangerous and deadly carcinogenic fibers, the United States still has not banned asbestos.

While dozens of other countries have outlawed asbestos, the United States allows hundreds of tons...

Lung Cancer Screening Boosts 20-Year Survival Rate to 80%

Lung Cancer Screening Boosts 20-Year Survival Rate to 80%

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death for both men and women in the U.S., accounting for nearly 25 percent of all deaths from the disease. Although this statistic may be grim, the results of a new international study provide hope. In the study, researchers discovered that regular screening for lung cancer using a CT scan enables early identification of the disease, in turn...

Jury Awards $20M To Mesothelioma Victim’s Wife

Jury Awards $20M To Mesothelioma Victim’s Wife

A Bridgeport, Connecticut, jury has returned a $20 million verdict for the wife of a Rhode Island man who died of mesothelioma cancer after exposure to window glazing contaminated with asbestos.

The verdict on Thursday is limited to compensatory damages against DAP Inc., the manufacturer of DAP 33 window glaze, and Vanderbilt Minerals, which supplied asbestos-contaminated ingredients...

Johnson & Johnson: A New War on Consumer Protection?

Johnson & Johnson Legal Maneuver

Johnson & Johnson: A New War on Consumer Protection?

Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson has used a controversial legal maneuver known as the Texas two-step to shield the company from 40,000 lawsuits from cancer patients who link their condition to talc in J&J’s baby powder.

In October 2021, New Jersey-based J&J used a wrinkle in Texas state law to spin off a new subsidiary that it named LTL. The company moved all baby...

An Update on Johnson & Johnson Talc Case

Update on Johnson & Johnson Talc Case

An Update on Johnson & Johnson Talc Case

During a court hearing in July 2022, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan said that he might appoint an independent expert to evaluate the lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson that allege the company’s baby powder is responsible for cancer and serious lung problems.

Following a tidal wave of lawsuits in 2020 concerning Johnson & Johnson’s talc-containing baby powder, many...

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