The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in June 2009, approved asbestos safety measures of the redevelopment work at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in Bayview, Calif., Asbestos.com reports.
In 2006 and 2007, airborne asbestos dust was released during a grading project connected with…
The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department, New York modified a case involving asbestos styled Chang Han Kim and Book Soon Kim v. Clymer Central School, School Board of Clymer Central School District, Barnes Construction Company, Environmental Products & Services,…
The Mt. Vernon City Schools in Mt. Vernon, Ill., received a US$70,000 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant through Head Start to remove asbestos floor tiles, the Mt. Vernon Register-News reports.
With a US$60,000 match from District 80 funds, stained and…
Speedy Excavating, a Surrey, British Columbia-based demolition firm, was charged with allegedly dumping asbestos-laden building materials at a recycling depot in New Westminster instead of taking it to Alberta, Canada, to be disposed of, The Vancouver Sun reports.
Speedy’s Bhupinder Singh…
The U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, recommended the dismissal of asbestos-related lawsuits filed by Darrell Bush and Kevin Damion Crichlow.
The case is styled Darrell Bush, Plaintiff v. Martin Horn, et al., Defendants.
Magistrates Judge Frank Maas entered judgment…
The Court of Appeals of Oregon upheld the ruling of the Multnomah County Circuit Court, which dismissed an asbestos lawsuit filed by Robert McDowell against various defendants.
Judges Rick T. Haselton, Rex Armstrong, and Ellen F. Rosenblum entered judgment in the…
An inquest heard that the death of Keith Rawlinson, an engineer from Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, was linked to workplace exposure to asbestos, The Bolton News reports.
Mr. Rawlinson died on Dec. 25, 2009 at the age of 64 in Bolton…
The Court of Appeals of Ohio, Eighth District, Cuyahoga County, affirmed the decision of the Cuyahoga County Circuit Court of Common Pleas, which issued rulings in favor of William E. Shepard in an asbestos case filed against Grand Truck Western…
The Court of Appeals of Indiana upheld the ruling of the Indiana Worker’s Compensation Board, which denied Gene A. Joiner’s claim for worker’s compensation for medical difficulties he had experienced as a result of exposure to asbestos in the course…
Sealed Air Corporation, since 2000, has been served with lawsuits alleging that, as a result of the Cryovac transaction, the Company is responsible for alleged asbestos liabilities of W. R. Grace & Co. and its subsidiaries, some of which were…