The U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, upheld the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, which granted summary judgment in favor of Chicago Insurance Company and Interstate Fire and Casualty Company, in a case…
Lawyers in Earl Baylor’s deposition say they found that Mr.
Baylor knew next to nothing about his asbestos case against
CSX Transportation Inc., The Madison St. Clair Record reports.
On June 16, 2009, CSX lawyer Marc Williams, Esq., of Huntington,
W.Va., wrote to Judge…
Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP has won GBP84,000 in compensation for a certain Mr. B, a 67-year-old man from Hayes, England, according to a Field Fisher Waterhouse press release dated June 21, 2009.
Mr. B contracted lung cancer after being exposed to…
Kubota Corporation, for the year ended March 31, 2009, donated JPY200 million as asbestos-related contributions, according to the Company’s annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 24, 2009.
Until 1995, the Company’s plant in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture,…
The removal of asbestos at Bridgeview Elementary School in South Charleston, W.Va., is ongoing, wvgazette.com reports.
Contractors who removed asbestos from the school on June 22, 2009 worked on one of the school system’s many summertime asbestos-abatement projects, according to county…
Kevin Gordon-Smith, a 51-year-old asbestos abatement contractor from Chili, N.Y., was arraigned on June 19, 2009 on federal charges that he mishandled asbestos cleanup projects at seven sites, DemocratANDChronicle.COM reports.
On June 18, 2009, Mr. Gordon-Smith was charged with 15 criminal…
James Hardie Industries N.V., on June 24, 2009, announced that its directors have determined to seek shareholder approval for a two-stage plan to transform the Company into a Societas Europaea, a relatively new form of European corporation (Stage 1), and…
Asbestos cleanup at the former John Fowler Holiday Park site in the village of Westward Ho!, England, is set to commence, the North Devon Journal reports.
The Health and Safety Executive stepped in at April 2009, stopping development work on the…
More than 60 primary and secondary schools in Redbridge, England, contain asbestos, the Guardian reports.
Figures obtained by the Guardian show nearly every major secondary and most primary schools have been identified by Redbridge Council as having structures containing asbestos. However…
Experts believe the number of mesothelioma cases in Nahariya, Israel, is expected to increase as individuals exposed to asbestos will age, HAARETZ.com reports.
Nahariya and the surrounding area have one of the largest concentrations in the world of people with mesothelioma.
The…