James Hardie Industries N.V., on Sept. 23, 2009, said it has lodged an appeal against a ruling in August 2009 that found the Company and former executives had breached Australian law on the adequacy of asbestos compensation funding, Bloomberg reports.
On…
Officials of Fresno, Calif., said that a construction project inside the Fresno Police Department was stopped on Sept. 21, 2009 when officials found 90 employees may have been exposed to asbestos, The Fresno Bee reports.
Crews were installing fire suppression equipment…
The law firm of Forman Perry Watkins Krutz & Tardy LLP announces a take-nothing defense verdict in a Mississippi asbestos exposure lawsuit in favor of Union Carbide Corporation and two other defendants, including ConocoPhillips Company and Montello, Inc., according to…
An inquest at the Wiltshire and Swindon Civic Offices, on Sept. 15, 2009, heard that the death of 58-year-old Linda Sinnett, of Eldene, Swindon, England, was linked to second-hand exposure to asbestos, the Swindon Advertiser reports.
Mrs. Sinnett was married to…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is removing asbestos- laced vermiculite dirt from nine holes of the Cabinet View Country Club golf course in Libby, Mont., Asbestos.com reports.
Cabinet View Country Club Board Chairman Gene Chappell said, “This project is going a…
Morrison Construction Ltd workmen, on Sept. 17, 2009, uncovered asbestos during a major refurbishment at Kingussie High School, a Badenoch and Strathspey, England, school, the Strathspey & Badenoch Herald reports.
The workmen had started replacing 165 windows at Kingussie as part…
The U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi, Western Division, denied the first Motion for Summary Judgment filed by William Guy and Thomas Brock in an asbestos case involving Warren E. Turner, Jr.
The case is styled Illinois Central Railroad Company,…
The New South Wales Ombudsman’s investigation on the Australian Government’s handling of an asbestos issue at Wallaga Lake Koori Village is underway, ABC News reports.
The Opposition has documents showing that Government agencies had known about an asbestos problem for some…
Amaca Pty Ltd’s asbestos-related lawsuit filed against the city council of Ipswich in Queensland, Australia, is underway, the Australia Associated Press reports.
Amaca’s case, filed in the District Court of Queensland, claims the council was negligent in the 1970s for failing…
The Municipal Council of Alpena, Mich., on Sept. 21, 2009, agreed to test the City’s water for the presence of asbestos, The Alpena News reports.
City Engineer Rich Sullenger presented the Council with a testing method developed by Mike Glowinski, utilities…