Rexnord LLC’s long-term reserve for asbestos claims was US$90 million as of June 27, 2009, the same as for the period ended March 31, 2009, according to a Company report, on Form 8-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission…
Olin Corporation and its subsidiaries continue to be defendants in various legal actions (including proceedings based on alleged exposures to asbestos) incidental to its past and current business activities.
No other asbestos-related matters were disclosed in the Company’s quarterly report filed…
An inquest at Torquay, England, heard that the death of Roy Capener, a 72-year-old retired company director from Kingsteignton, Devon, England, was linked to exposure to asbestos, the Herald Express reports.
Mr. Capener was exposed to asbestos during his working life,…
David Armistead’s lawsuit against BAE Systems Land, alleging workplace exposure to asbestos, is ongoing, Asbestos.com reports.
The 60-year-old Mr. Armistead was diagnosed with mesothelioma in January 2008. In the suit, he seeks more than US$500,000 from the global defense, security and…
CONSOL Energy Inc.’s subsidiary Fairmont Supply Company, a distributor of industrial supplies, still is a defendant in 25,000 asbestos claims in state courts in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey and Illinois.
Because a very small percentage of products…
Judge Patrick J. Clifford of the Superior Court in Middletown, Conn., on Aug. 4, 2009, sentenced Donald Chairamonte to 20 months in prison and ordered him to pay more than US$15,000 in restitution, The Hartford Courant reports.
The 49-year-old Mr. Chairamonte…
The Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 1, California, upheld the ruling of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, which favored the defense in a case involving asbestos filed by Michael and Valerie Dean.
The case is styled Michael Dean et…
RPM International, Inc.’s subsidiaries faced a total of 10,173 active asbestos cases as of May 31, 2009, compared with a total of 11,202 cases as of May 31, 2008, according to the Company’s annual report filed with the Securities and…
Like many other insurers, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., continues to be joined in actions by asbestos plaintiffs, according to the Company’s quarterly report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 29, 2009.
The plaintiffs assert that insurers…
Hercules Offshore, Inc. continues to be involved in asbestos litigation styled Robert E. Aaron et al. vs. Phillips 66 Company et al., which was filed in Circuit Court, Second Judicial District, Jones County, in Mississippi.
This is the case name used…