Chicago-based Goldberg Kohn announced a major victory in the U.S. Supreme Court on June 19, 2009 for beneficiaries of a US$440 million settlement with Travelers Insurance in 2005 of asbestos-related claims, according to a Goldberg Kohn press release dated June…
Kubota Corporation, during the year ended March 31, 2009, expended JPY1.155 billion (US$11,786,000) for asbestos-related claims, according to the Company’s annual report, on Form 20-F, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 24, 2009.
Of the JPY1.155 billion (US$11,786,000),…
The Homer Middle School in Homer, Alaska, contains asbestos, in which its removal would make up for about half of the boiler replacement cost, Mesothelioma.com reports.
One city official said that another US$20,000 will go toward removal of the old boiler.
Over…
It was found on June 17, 2009 that 37 percent of asbestos disease sufferers, who responded to a Japanese Environment Ministry survey, say they did not know where they inhaled asbestos fibers, The Yomiuri Shimbun reports.
The Ministry surveyed 3,351 people…
The Appellate Court of Connecticut upheld the ruling of the Workers’ Compensation Board, which dismissed a fund’s petition for review in a case involving asbestos compensation filed by Lovie Dechio on behalf of her husband Peter Dechio.
The case is styled…
Simon Smith, a father from Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, is calling for a Queensland Government review of its building arm Qbuild after a botched asbestos removal operation from the Caningeraba State School, NEWS.com.au reports.
Despite assurances from the school that material…
The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, New York, upheld an asbestos-related ruling of the Supreme Court, Albany County, in the case styled In the Matter of E.W. Tompkins Company, Inc., Appellant v. State University of New York et al.,…
In a letter dated June 11, 2009, Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to consider complete removal, destruction and/or recycling of the asbestos at the BoRit site located in Ambler, Upper Dublin and Whitpain townships in…
An inquest heard that the death of 60-year-old carpenter and builder, John Towersey, of Hextable, England, was linked to workplace exposure to asbestos, This is Local London reports.
Mr. Towersey’s widow, Beverely, says her husband would still be alive today had…
Commissioners propose the removal of asbestos in the old basement of the Ross County Courthouse in Ross County, Ohio, the Chilicothe Gazette reports.
Prosecutor Mike Ater told commissioners that in order to declare the clean up an emergency; they had to…