Sunoco, Inc. is still subject to legal and administrative proceedings over allegations of exposures of third parties to toxic substances like asbestos and benzene.
No further asbestos-related matters were disclosed in the Company’s annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange…
An October 2009 trial is set for one of the claimants in asbestos-related litigation ongoing against Pride International, Inc.
Since 2004, certain of the Company’s subsidiaries have been named, along with numerous other defendants, in several complaints that have been filed…
Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. is still a defendant in asbestos-related lawsuits filed in the Circuit Courts of the State of Mississippi, according to the Company’s annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Feb. 24, 2009.
The suits allege…
Forrest Collier’s family, on Jan. 20, 2009, filed an asbestos- related lawsuit against Chevron Corporation (f/k/a Gulf Oil Corp.) in Jefferson County District Court, Tex., The Southeast Texas Record reports.
Mr. Collier worked for Gulf Oil, in Port Arthur, Tex., where…
Ashland Inc.’s noncurrent asbestos litigation reserve was US$807 million at Dec. 31, 2008, compared with US$546 million at Dec. 31, 2007, according to a Company report, on Form 8-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan. 27, 2009.
The…
Asbestos has been discovered at the Chaucer Technology School in Spring Lane, Canterbury, England, the Canterbury Adscene reports.
A BBC1 program featured the secondary school as it highlighted the worrying figure that 554 out of the 599 schools in Kent were…