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A 72-year old Virginia man won his fight against the oil giant Exxon in a Circuit Court trial in Newport News.  A jury awarded Bert Minton $25 million for his pain and suffering after being exposed to asbestos while repairing and refurbishing ships at Newport News Shipbuilding where he worked from the sixties through the [...]

Westlaw recently reported that the Northern District of California stayed an asbestos lawsuit in which plaintiff was claiming his asbestos related illness was due to exposure to asbestos brought home on his father’s work clothes and from visiting his father while he worked on airplanes at the World Airways’ hangers in California.  (Timothy Vest, et [...]

Investors who purchased Halliburton stock between 1999 and 2001 filed a lawsuit in Federal Court seeking money damages. The complaint alleges that Halliburton’s CEO fraudulently underestimated Halliburton’s asbestos liabilities, overstated revenues and further overestimated the benefits of its1998 merger with Dresser Industries, Halliburton’s rival and a corporation with known asbestos related liabilities.
Asbestos, a naturally occurring [...]

Receiving a diagnosis of mesothelioma is devastating.  Mesothelioma, caused by prior exposure to asbestos, is an incurable cancer that begins in the lining of the lungs, heart or abdomen.  From the time of diagnosis, the patient most often has less than a year to live.  Although there is much research being conducted in the way [...]

Plaintiffs of asbestos lawsuits in California can recover punitive damages if they can prove that the defendant, either the manufacturer of the asbestos containing product or the employer, was guilty of oppression, fraud, or malice.   Harm to the plaintiff can be as a result of direct malice or intentional trickery or deceit.
For almost a hundred [...]

Ray Barker, a weatherization employee of the Genesee County Community Action Resource Department in Colorado, won a $250,000 settlement in his case claiming wrongful termination after warning of potentially exposing himself and customers to asbestos.  GCCARD is a local county department organization that assists low income residents.  One of the services they provide is weatherization [...]

If you or someone you know has worked around asbestos containing products and has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, or asbestos cancer, you have probably been advised to file a lawsuit to help recover financial losses and pay for medical costs.  This article is intended to answer any questions you may have about the costs [...]

It is often the case that individuals diagnosed with mesothelioma or other asbestos related lung disease were actually exposed many years in the past from products or activities of corporations that have long since disappeared. Some have entered into bankruptcy and set up trusts for their asbestos related liabilities while others have merely been consumed [...]

Because many of our clients were exposed to asbestos through the course of their employment, or while they were “on the job,” they may chose to pursue a workers compensation claim in addition to the personal injury action we file on their behalf.  While both asbestos workers compensation claims and asbestos personal injury lawsuits may [...]

Many of our clients who contract mesothelioma were unaware of the hazards of breathing asbestos during the time when they were exposed. Many clients report that they only first heard of the hazards associated with breathing asbestos in the late 1980s or 1990s, through the media, or when someone they knew contracted an asbestos-related disease.
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