The Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex, issued split rulings in a case involving asbestos styled Kathleen A. Morin, administratrix v. AutoZone Northeast, Inc., & others.
Judges Duffly, Sikora, and Milkey entered judgment in Case No. 09-P-1816 on March 14, 2011.
Estate filed…
CIRCOR International, Inc. says that subsidiary Leslie Controls, Inc. recorded asbestos- and bankruptcy-related liabilities of US$79,801,000 as of April 3, 2011, compared with US$79,831,000 as of Dec. 31, 2010, according to a Company press release dated May 5, 2011.
During the…
Cabot Corporation continues to be subject to respirator liabilities, which involve claims for personal injury, including asbestosis, silicosis and coal worker’s pneumoconiosis, allegedly resulting from the use of American Optical Corporation respirators that are alleged to have been negligently designed…
U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton, on Jan. 20, 2011, moved Albania Deleon’s sentencing hearing to March 23, 2011 — two years to the day Ms. Deleon was to be originally sentenced – after she requested a new lawyer, the…
Officials in Lynn, Mass., are explaining how as many as four janitors were exposed to asbestos at the 100-year-old Fecteau- Leary School in mid-December 2010, The Daily Item reports.
Director of the city’s Inspectional Services Department Michael Donovan said the janitors…
Asbestos work at the Quincy Fair Mall site in Quincy, Mass., will add US$700,000 to US$1 million to the $500,000 project cost, PatriotLedger.com reports.
The added expense will be paid by the state with surplus stimulus funds.
After the unexpected asbestos discovery…
Cabot Corporation’s respirator liabilities involve claims for personal injury, including asbestosis, silicosis and coal worker’s pneumoconiosis, allegedly resulting from the use of American Optical Corporation respirators that are alleged to have been negligently designed or labeled.
The Company has exposure in…
Ending loss and loss adjustment expense reserves for all direct business written by The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc.’s property and casualty companies related to asbestos and environmental damage liability, included in the reserve for losses and LAE, were US$11.3 million…
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has levied a US$10,200 fine against Rick Denoncourt Carpentry, Inc. for violating state asbestos regulations, according to a MassDEP press release dated Aug. 25, 2010.
The violations were discovered during MassDEP’s complaint investigation of a…
CIRCOR International, Inc.’s subsidiary, Leslie Controls, Inc., faced 1,214 open asbestos-related cases during the three months ended July 4, 2010, according to the Company’s quarterly report filed on Aug. 2, 2010 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
During the three months…