Thomas Properties Group, Inc., as of June 30, 2011, had accrued about $1.4 million for estimated future costs of asbestos removal or abatement at its City National Plaza and Brookhollow Central properties.
Some of the Company’s properties may contain asbestos-containing materials.…
Two companies had agreed to settle US$110,000 in fines for asbestos violations stemming from a 2009 renovation project at Windsor Monterey Care Center, the Monterey County Herald reports.
The work involved scraping an asbestos-laden acoustic ceiling. The facility’s parent company was…
From time to time, California Water Service Group has been named as a co-defendant in several asbestos related lawsuits, according to the Company’s annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 5, 2011.
Several of these cases against…
The California Court of Appeal, First District, Division 4, upheld SeaRiver Maritime, Inc.’s motion for summary judgment, in a case involving asbestos filed by Alan Bartholomew.
Patricia Sepulveda, Ignazio Ruvolo, and Maria Rivera entered judgment in the case.
Between 1977 and 1980,…
Crane Co. says that a court will hear an appeal in Dennis Woodard’s asbestos-related claim in August 2011.
On Feb. 2, 2009, the Company received an adverse verdict in the Dennis Woodard claim in Los Angeles. The jury found that the…
Ameron International Corporation was a defendant in 20 asbestos- related cases as of May 29, 2011, compared with 16 cases as of Feb. 27, 2011.
The Company is a defendant in a number of asbestos-related personal injury lawsuits. These cases generally…
Orchard Supply Hardware Stores Corporation is currently a party in two product liability cases, both pertaining to asbestos, according to a Company report, on Form S-1, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 23, 2011.
These asbestos cases are…
A Los Angeles federal judge, on June 6, 2011, sentenced developer Charles Yi to four years in prison for violating asbestos handling laws during the renovation of an apartment complex in the San Fernando Valley, The Associated Press reports.
Mr. Yi,…
Katy Industries, Inc. says that Sterling Fluid Systems (USA) has tendered about 2,860 asbestos cases pending in Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Nevada, Mississippi, Wyoming, Louisiana, Georgia, Massachusetts, Missouri, Kentucky, California, South Carolina and Canada to the Company for…
Pacific Offshore Properties Trust, Inc.’s liability in its consolidated balance sheets for asbestos-related conditional asset retirement obligations was US$600,000 as of March 31, 2011 and Dec. 31, 2010.
The Company records a liability for a conditional asset retirement obligation, defined as…