Chicago-based Goldberg Kohn announced a major victory in the U.S. Supreme Court on June 19, 2009 for beneficiaries of a US$440 million settlement with Travelers Insurance in 2005 of asbestos-related claims, according to a Goldberg Kohn press release dated June…
Kevin Gordon-Smith, a 51-year-old asbestos abatement contractor from Chili, N.Y., was arraigned on June 19, 2009 on federal charges that he mishandled asbestos cleanup projects at seven sites, DemocratANDChronicle.COM reports.
On June 18, 2009, Mr. Gordon-Smith was charged with 15 criminal…
The removal of asbestos at Bridgeview Elementary School in South Charleston, W.Va., is ongoing, wvgazette.com reports.
Contractors who removed asbestos from the school on June 22, 2009 worked on one of the school system’s many summertime asbestos-abatement projects, according to county…
Lawyers in Earl Baylor’s deposition say they found that Mr.
Baylor knew next to nothing about his asbestos case against
CSX Transportation Inc., The Madison St. Clair Record reports.
On June 16, 2009, CSX lawyer Marc Williams, Esq., of Huntington,
W.Va., wrote to Judge…
The U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, upheld the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, which granted summary judgment in favor of Chicago Insurance Company and Interstate Fire and Casualty Company, in a case…
The Washington County School District in Hagerstown, Md., says that asbestos cleanup is ongoing at two schools: Fountaindale Elementary and E. Russell Hicks Middle School, Mesothelioma reports.
On June 8, 2009, crews started work at Fountaindale, on Northern Avenue, where remediation…
The Superior Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk County, allowed defendants’ Motion to Dismiss Count IV of Plaintiffs’ Amended Complaint, in the case styled Watts Water Technologies, Inc. & Watts Regulator Company v. Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company & others (Travelers Indemnity Company,…
The U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, ruled against plaintiffs, in a case involving asbestos filed by Charles Eickleberry and other parties, finding that joinder of Plaintiffs’ claims under Rule 20 was not suitable.
The case is styled Charles Eickleberry,…
The U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth District, affirmed the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, which denied Geraldine Nicholas’ motion to compel arbitration, in a case involving asbestos filed on behalf of her late…
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office, on June 11, 2009, filed a complaint in Suffolk Superior Court against the owner of a contaminated site in Danvers, according to a Massachusetts AG press release dated June 12, 2009.
The complaint alleges that…