Panolam Industries International, Inc.’s subsidiary, Nevamar Holding Corp., is subject to asbestos-related exposure lawsuits.
During 2006, Nevamar was named a defendant in numerous workers’ compensation claims filed on behalf of current and former employees at the Hampton, S.C., facility alleging injury…
The Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Dec. 5, 2009, closed due to an asbestos scare, Mesothelioma Cancer News reports.
NYDailyNews.com reported that a scheduled SAT test was also cancelled due to the fear of contamination from construction issues.
Michael Mulgrew,…
J. C. Penney Company, Inc., as of Oct. 31, 2009, estimated its total potential asbestos and environmental liabilities to range from US$41 million to US$52 million and recorded its best estimate of US$43 million in other liabilities in the Consolidated…
The Council in the City of Maitland in Wales, Australia, is set to remove asbestos roofing from its century-old town hall building, ABC News reports.
When the work starts early in the New Year, council meetings will have to be relocated…
Sears Holdings Corporation continues to be involved and subject to legal proceedings, which include asbestos exposure allegations.
These claims may seek compensatory, punitive or treble damage claims (potentially in large amounts) or as well as other types of relief.
No other asbestos-related…
An inquest heard that the death of Patrick O’Brien Glasspool, an 81-year-old former boilermaker from Woolston, Hampshire, England, was linked to workplace exposure to asbestos, ThisIsHampshire.net reports.
Mr. Glasspool died of lung cancer on July 28, 2009. A claim was in…
Certain public health officials in the province of Quebec, Canada, signed a petition regarding the area’s asbestos industry, Mesothelioma reports.
The petition, directed at the Canadian Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, requests that she have the government cease its financial backing for…
Madison, Ill.-based RMT Inc. and Detroit-based Homrich Inc. have settled with the State of Wisconsin over charges of breaching asbestos removal rules when demolishing the old Aldrich Chemical building in downtown Milwaukee, as part of the Marquette Interchange reconstruction, The…
James Hardie Industries N.V.’s current asbestos liability was US$100 million as of Sept. 30, 2009, compared with US$78.2 million as of March 31, 2009, according to a Company report, on Form 6-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on…
The U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana, Terre Haute Division, denied Foster Wheeler LLC’s motion to strike and dismiss Paragraph 27 of Dennis and Suzanne Crowder’s asbestos- related complaint.
The case is styled Dennis Crowder and Suzanne Crowder, Plaintiffs v.…