The law firm of Forman Perry Watkins Krutz & Tardy LLP announces a take-nothing defense verdict in a Mississippi asbestos exposure lawsuit in favor of Union Carbide Corporation and two other defendants, including ConocoPhillips Company and Montello, Inc., according to…
The New South Wales Court of Appeal favored 70-year-old Beverly Stavar, who convinced the Court she should be able to file more asbestos compensation claims against Caltex Australia Limited and other companies, The Australian reports.
Mrs. Stavar, who contracted mesothelioma after…
Bonnie Duncan, on behalf of her late husband Weldon F. Duncan, filed an asbestos lawsuit against 26 defendant corporations in Jefferson County District Court, Tex., on Sept. 4, 2009, The Southeast Texas Record reports.
Mr. Duncan worked as an insulator and…
The U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, upheld the ruling of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, which dismissed an asbestos-related declaratory judgment action involving Exxon Mobil Corporation and Turner Industries Group LLC.
The case is styled…
An asbestos-related lawsuit, styled Patrick Doyle et ux vs. Chevron USA et al, was filed on Aug. 26, 2009 in Jefferson County District Court, The Southeast Texas Record reports.
The plaintiffs sued nine defendant corporations, claiming an asbestos-related disease caused by…
The family of the late Michael W. Osborne Sr., on June 12, 2009, filed an asbestos lawsuit against Texaco Inc. and Chevron Corporation in Jefferson County District Court, Tex., The Southeast Texas Record reports.
The elder Mr. Osborne’s family (wife Shirley…
Graham Corporation continues to be a defendant in certain lawsuits alleging personal injury from exposure to asbestos contained in products made by the Company, according to the Company’s annual report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 2,…
Repsol YPF, S.A. says that claims have been brought against Occidental Petroleum Corporation claiming damages for exposure to vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), asbestos, and other chemical products, as well as alleged for environmental damage.
Occidental has informed Maxus Energy Corporation that…
Linda Dale Baggett McLemore, Larry Donald Baggett and Hazel Baggett (on behalf of Lawrence Baggett) filed an asbestos lawsuit against 33 defendant corporations in Jefferson County District Court, Tex., on May 20, 2009, The Southeast Texas Record reports.
The defendants include…
Certain predecessors of BJ Services Company, along with numerous other defendants, continue to face asbestos lawsuits filed in the Circuit Courts of Jones and Smith Counties in Mississippi since August 2004.
These four lawsuits included 118 individual plaintiffs alleging that they…