K-Sea Transportation Partners L.P. says that the remaining asbestos lawsuit, filed against affiliate EW Transportation LLC, has been administratively dismissed, which means that it remains active for routine matters not requiring a formal hearing.
EW Transportation LLC and its predecessors have…
The discovery of asbestos delays the demolition of several buildings in Austin, Minn., destroyed during a January 2009 fire, MesotheliomaWeb.org reports.
The sites were scheduled for demolition in September 2009.
Austin City Public Works Director Jon Erichson said that those occurrences are…
A Sept. 16, 2009 inquest, at the Active Business Centre, heard that the death of 85-year-old Helmut Zygrfyd Nawrot, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, was linked to exposure to asbestos, the Bury Free Press reports.
Mr. Nawrot died on Jan.…
The former Augusta Tissue Mill on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine, has more asbestos than previously anticipated by engineers, Mesothelioma reports.
The problem was first reported in June 2009.
In Augusta, the US$25,000 set aside by the city to remove that…
A jury in Hamilton County, Tenn., on Sept. 21, 2009, handed a US$1.4 million verdict in favor of Marian H. Jackson after finding that asbestos products made by National Service Industries (a/k/a North Brothers Inc.) contributed to her husband’s mesothelioma,…
Roy Ashforth, a 72-year-old local of Birley, Sheffield, England, seeks the help of his former work colleagues after being diagnosed with mesothelioma, The Star reports.
Mr. Ashford previously worked at Arthur Balfour & Co Ltd, Keeton Sons & Co Ltd, and…
The U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, denied Barbara Anne Anderson’s “Motion for Leave to File Amended Pleading” in an asbestos case styled Barbara Anne Anderson, Plaintiff v. Alfa Laval, Inc., et al., Defendants.
U.S. Magistrate Judge David R. Strawbridge…
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality issued a US$2,400 penalty to Allen Bruce Her, of Grants Pass, Ore., for performing an unlicensed asbestos abatement project at a residence in Rogue River, Ore., according to a DEQ press release dated Sept.…
Mayor Justin Nickels, of Manitowoc, Wis., said that the City will clean up its beaches and the asbestos-contaminated Mirro building, Mesothelioma.com reports.
Mayor Nickels said, “We looked at all the beachfronts and what we can do with them and for them.…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other officials of Elyria, Ohio, are checking for signs of asbestos contamination at the former General Industries site, Mesothelioma.com reports.
The EPA-hired contractors were on the scene wearing white jumpsuits and using respirators to minimize…