The Superior Court of Delaware, New Castle County, granted Crane Co.’s motion for summary judgment in an asbestos-related lawsuit filed by Wesley K. Davis.
Judge Peggy L. Ableman entered judgment in Civil Action No. 09C-08-258 ASB on June 7, 2011.
Wesley K.…
Asbestos was discovered in Public School 143 in Corona, Queens, N.Y., where children had been attending kindergarten classes, the Daily News reports.
About 100 students from Public School 143 were removed from the annex in September 2011 after water leaks threatened…
The U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, granted TKK USA Inc.’s motion for summary judgment in an asbestos-related insurance action filed against Safety National Casualty Corporation.
The case is styled TKK USA Inc. (f/k/a The Thermos Company), Plaintiff…
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.…
Ameron International Corporation was a defendant in 21 asbestos- related cases as of Aug. 28, 2011, compared to 20 cases as of May 29, 2011, according to the Company’s quarterly report filed on Oct. 4, 2011 with the U.S. Securities…
Franklin A. (Al) Bieri, a 52-year-old man from O’Fallon, Ill., pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2011, to violating The Clean Air Act in U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen…
The Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit, reversed the ruling of the First Judicial District Court for the Parish of Caddo Louisiana, which granted the City of Shreveport’s exception of no cause of action, in an asbestos case filed…
The U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, granted CBC Corporation’s motion to stay consideration of the motion to remand, in an asbestos case filed by Sally Gros Vedros.
The case is styled Sally Gros Vedros v. Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc.,…
The Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, New York, reversed the ruling of the Supreme Court, New York County, in a case involving asbestos styled Continental Casualty Company, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Respondents v. Employers Insurance Company of Wausau, et al., Defendants-Respondents-Appellants,…
The U.S. Supreme Court, on Oct. 3, 2011, declined to hear an appeal of the law firm of Peirce Raimond & Coulter, which is alleged to have conspired to fabricate asbestos claims, Legal Newsline reports.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for…