IPALCO Enterprises, Inc.’s subsidiary, Indiana Power & Light Company (IPL), was a defendant in 104 pending asbestos lawsuits as of Sept. 30, 2009, compared with 114 lawsuits as of Dec. 31, 2008.
These lawsuits allege personal injury or wrongful death stemming…
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation and its former subsidiary, NATCO Limited Partnership, continue to face pending asbestos- related lawsuits.
The Company and NATCO are named as defendants in 264 lawsuits, the majority of which were filed between 1989 and 2000.…
Curtiss-Wright Corporation (or its subsidiaries) continues to face a number of lawsuits that allege injury from exposure to asbestos.
To date, neither the Company nor its subsidiaries have been found liable or paid any material sum of money in settlement in…
EnPro Industries, Inc., at Sept. 30, 2009, faced about 97,400 open asbestos cases, of which it was aware of about 5,300 (5.4 percent) that involve claimants alleging mesothelioma.
Certain of the Company’s subsidiaries, primarily Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC and The Anchor…
Asbestos traces were found in three Seoul, Korea, subway stations: Gyeongbok Palace Station on Subway Line 3 and the Mullae and Bangbae stations on Line 2, The Korea Times reports.
According to the Ban Asbestos Network Korea (BANK) on Nov. 23,…
M & F Worldwide Corp., as of Sept. 30, 2009, has not incurred and does not expect to incur material amounts related to asbestos- related claims not subject certain arrangements (Remaining Claims).
The Company’s non-operating contingent claims are generally associated with…
An inquest heard that the death of 77-year-old Evelyn Boxall, of Horley, Surrey, England, was linked to workplace exposure to asbestos, Asbestos.Net reports.
Ms. Boxall had been diagnosed with mesothelioma after years of soldering airplane radios in a plant where she…
CH Energy Group, Inc. says that, of the 3,317 asbestos cases brought against its subsidiary, Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, about 1,187 remain pending as of Sept. 30, 2009.
As of June 30, 2009, Central Hudson faced 1,183 pending asbestos…
Albany International Corp. faced 8,945 asbestos claims as of Oct. 30, 2009, 16,060 claims as of July 23, 2009, 16,818 claims as of May 1, 2009, and 17,854 claims as of Feb. 6, 2009.
The Company is a defendant in suits…
EnPro Industries, Inc. says that, at Sept. 30, 2009, six Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC asbestos-related appeals were pending from adverse verdicts totaling US$2.9 million, up from US$2.2 million at Dec. 31, 2008 and US$1.4 million at Dec. 31, 2007.
Garlock, which…