Several residents rebuked Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Max Baucus on Aug. 23, 2010 for a law that could help potentially thousands of asbestos victims in Libby, Mont., The Associated Press reports.
The health care reform law passed in 2009…
CNA Financial Corporation continues to be party to litigation involving W. R. Grace & Co. styled Pennock, et al. v. Maryland Casualty, et al., filed in the First Judicial District Court of Lewis & Clark County, Mont.
In March 2002, the…
W. R. Grace & Co. and Oldon Limited Partnership agreed to pay for asbestos cleanup at the 2.3-acre site and contiguous building on Wemelco Way in Easthampton, Mass., Mesothelioma reports.
Grace used the Wemelco Way site to manufacture Zonolite brand attic…
The congressional delegation of Montana seeks assurances from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the U.S. Government will not abandon the asbestos-town of Libby, Mont., before cleanup is complete, the Associated Press reports.
According to health workers, at least 400 people…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plan to spend more than US$130 million on cleanup efforts and improving the health care system in the Libby, Mont., area, Asbestos.com reports.
To date, about 400…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is removing asbestos- laced vermiculite dirt from nine holes of the Cabinet View Country Club golf course in Libby, Mont., Asbestos.com reports.
Cabinet View Country Club Board Chairman Gene Chappell said, “This project is going a…
The historic Northern Hotel in Billings, Mont., which is under new ownership, is earmarked for asbestos cleanup, the Mesothelioma & Asbestos Awareness Center reports.
New owners, brothers Mike and Chris Nelson, are hoping to win back former customers and restore the…
Charges are being dropped against O. Mario Favorito, a former W. R. Grace & Co. executive, in a Libby, Mont., asbestos trial, Montana’s News Station reports.
This happened one month after a Montana jury dropped the case against Mr. Favorito’s former…
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, on June 17, 2009, announced the EPA has determined that a public health emergency exists at the Libby asbestos site in northwest Montana, according to an EPA press release dated June 17,…
Senator Max Baucus says that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is giving Lincoln County in Montana US$6 million to fund health care for people with asbestos-related diseases and there may be more help on the way, The…