United States veterans represent eight percent of the nation’s population, but they make up 30 percent of Americans who develop mesothelioma, a fatal cancer with only one established cause — asbestos exposure. That’s why new laws proposed by asbestos companies are particularly unfair to U.S. veterans.
Tennessee Lawmakers Considering Legislation to Help Asbestos Companies Shun...
Across the country, our nation’s school districts are faced with limited funding for safety inspections meant to detect the presence of asbestos, the only established cause of mesothelioma, an aggressive and fatal cancer. Schools used to be reimbursed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to cover the cost of asbestos inspections. Now that EPA funding has been cut off, many...
Gary Paul, a partner in the Los Angeles office of Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel, talks to the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC) about the case regarding Davis v. American Standard, et. al. In this 2008 video clip, Gary discusses the challenges of representing the asbestos plaintiffs, like the Davis family, in naval asbestos-mesothelioma case. This video was shown at the CAOC’s...
The town of Libby, Montana is probably best known for the unusually high number of its residents suffering from mesothelioma — a terminal cancer whose only known cause is asbestos exposure. According to health workers, asbestos disease has claimed the lives of 400 people in Libby and has caused injury to another 3,000 people.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has spent years...
Jury Awards $5.2 Million to Long-Time U.S. Navy Machinist Exposed to Asbestos
Power Equipment Manufacturer Foster Wheeler Found Liable for Failure to Warn; Jury Also Finds Malice
LOS ANGELES — May 24, 2007 — A Los Angeles jury yesterday found power equipment manufacturer Foster Wheeler liable for the mesothelioma death of 60-year-old Richard...
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