Fremont City Schools estimates the cost of asbestos abatement at Fremont Middle School in Fremont, Ohio, will be US$178,000, more than US$1.2 million less than the Fremont City School District had budgeted, The News-Messenger.com reports.
Chris Moore of Touchstone CPM, the…
Abatement of Toledo Public Schools’ former Libbey High School in Toledo, Ohio, has started, Fox Toledo.com reports.
Crews were seen last Oct. 12, 2011 removing asbestos within the former school. The abatement should be completed by December 2011. Demolition of the…
Nick Teasdale, the son of Norman Teasdale, is calling on council chiefs to warn the elder Mr. Teasdale’s former colleagues and pupils at a school in Teesside, England, the Evening Gazette reports.
Nick Teasdale believes others who were at the same…
RPM International Inc. says that Bondex International, Inc. and Specialty Products Holding Corp. are defendants in various asbestos-related bodily injury lawsuits filed in various state courts, according to the Company’s quarterly report filed on Oct. 7, 2011 with the U.S.…
The appeal from RPM International Inc.’s Bondex International, Inc. subsidiary and Specialty Products Holding Corp. over an asbestos-related insurance case is ongoing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
During calendar year 2003, Bondex and SPH’s third-party insurers…
A. David Sugar, 62, of New Middletown, Ohio, and his construction company, Honey Creek Contracting Company, were sentenced in U.S. District Court on Aug. 23, 2011, for violating the Clean Air Act rules related to the proper removal and handling…
American Financial Group, Inc. says that, at June 30, 2011, its property and casualty group’s asbestos and environmental reserves was US$382 million, net of reinsurance recoverables.
The Company recently completed the previously announced comprehensive study of its asbestos and environmental exposures…
AK Steel Holding Corporation’s AK Steel Corporation subsidiary or its Armco Inc. predecessor, since 1990, has been named as a defendant in numerous lawsuits alleging personal injury as a result of exposure to asbestos.
The great majority of these lawsuits have…
Park-Ohio Holdings Corp., at June 30, 2011, was a co-defendant in about 300 cases asserting claims on behalf of about 1,240 plaintiffs alleging personal injury as a result of exposure to asbestos, according to the Company’s quarterly report filed on…
American Financial Group, Inc.’s P&C group’s asbestos reserves were increased by US$28 million (net of reinsurance) and its environmental reserves were increased by US$22 million (net of reinsurance), according to a Company press release dated Aug. 1, 2011.
At June 30,…