Most mesothelioma asbestos lawsuits in the United States do not end with a criminal conviction and jail sentence for those found to be responsible. Things recently went very differently for former company officials with Italian electronics company Olivetti. Several company managers were sentenced to prison in connection with the mesothelioma deaths of ten factory workers exposed to asbestos in...
Decades after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began regulating and eventually banning the use of asbestos in a wide variety of products, asbestos continues to cause the deaths of thousands of Americans each year, including the roughly 3000 who are diagnosed every year with mesothelioma. Most mesothelioma patients are in their sixties or older and were exposed to asbestos decades ago...
Jury finds Asbestos Equipment Supplier Responsible for Salem, Oreg. Man’s Mesothelioma.
OREGON – A Portland jury has awarded a $5 million asbestos verdict to Charles Eastridge and his wife, the plaintiffs in a mesothelioma lawsuit against gasket supplier Mar-Dustrial. Mr. Eastridge was diagnosed with mesothelioma last year. The jury determined that his cancer was...
British researchers are investigating a new drug that may be used to treat mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer caused by asbestos exposure. Mesothelioma is ordinarily discovered only after it has progressed to the late stages, when effective treatment is not possible. HRX9, the drug being studied in Britain, prevents cancer cells from escaping the body’s ordinary process for killing off...
Mesothelioma doctors at the Mayo Clinic are in the midst of a clinical trial to determine the safety and effectiveness of cryotherapy treatment for patients. Mesothelioma is an aggressive, terminal cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Many workers have been exposed to the dangerous substance in their work with asbestos gaskets, asbestos brake linings and asbestos insulation...
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...
45-Year-Old Man Diagnosed with Mesothelioma in 2007, 35 Years After Exposure to Asbestos Dust on Father’s Work Clothes
BALTIMORE, Md. – January 27, 2010 – A Baltimore City jury yesterday awarded $9.936 million to the son of a merchant mariner who suffers with...
A new mesothelioma study reveals that patients treated with “trimodality therapy” tend to have better survival rates than othermesothelioma patients.
Trimodality means three methods of mesothelioma treatment combined, rather than just one or two. The three methods most commonly used to treat pleural mesothelioma are:
surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation.The study looked at...
Widow of Oil Field Consultant Awarded $1.2M in Asbestos-Exposure Case
First known drilling mud additive verdict in Texas; Montello, Inc. and Union Carbide Each Found 15% Liable
TEXAS – October 7, 2009 – A Brazoria County jury has awarded the widow of Danny Puckett, an industrial engineer and oil field consultant, $1.2 million...
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