An asbestos lawsuit styled Billy Don Shaw and Lucille Shaw vs. Travelcenters of America, LLC; et al was filed on June 22, 2009 in Ohio County, W.Va., The West Virginia Record reports.
Peter D. Friday, Esq., represents the plaintiffs in Case…
The U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia, denied Wanda Hamrick’s motion to remand in an asbestos lawsuit filed on behalf of her late husband, Charles E. Hamrick against various defendants.
Judge John T. Copenhaver entered judgment in Civil Action…
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…
An asbestos action, pending in a West Virginia court and filed against Reynolds American Inc. subsidiaries: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Brown & Williamson Holdings Inc., continues to be stayed, according to the Company’s quarterly report filed with the…
CIRCOR International, Inc.’s subsidiary, Leslie Controls, Inc., as of March 29, 2009, faced 1,103 active, unresolved asbestos claims.
These claims were filed in California, Texas, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Rhode Island and 24 other states. About 578 of these…
CSX Transportation Inc.’s attorney Marc Williams, Esq., in a March 18, 2009 report to Circuit Judge Arthur Recht, traced a forgery to asbestos plaintiff, Huntington, W.Va.-based Rodney Chambers, but blamed the law firm of Peirce, Raimond and Coulter, The West…
The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, on March 12, 2009, revived an asbestos exposure lawsuit filed by Freda Ratliff, on behalf of her husband Sparrell Ratliff, against Norfolk Southern Railway Company, The West Virginia Record reports.
The Appeals Court reversed…
An asbestos-related lawsuit, which is pending in a West Virginia court and filed against Reynolds American Inc. subsidiaries: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Brown & Williamson Holdings Inc., is still stayed, according to the Company’s annual report filed with…
Richard Franklin Clutter, on Feb. 11, 2009, filed an asbestos- related lawsuit against 70 defendant corporations in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, W.Va., The West Virginia Record reports.
Mr. Clutter worked as a pipefitter for Weirton Steel Corp. from 1951-1954…