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Asbestos Continues to Plague Libby, Montana Residents

CPSM — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:42:20 +0000

Libby, Montana is a small town nestled the Northern Rockies along the beautiful Kootenai River. Although Libby is a recreational, hunting and fishing paradise, the town is now most famous for being the former home of an asbestos mine, owned and operated by WR Grace. Vermiculite asbestos, also known under the brand name, Zonolite, has [...]

Asbestos Continues to Plague Libby, Montana Residents is a post from: Mesothelioma Blog, the official blog of Clapper, Patti, Schweizer & Mason mesothelioma attorneys with more than 25 years experience helping clients.

A Must Read if Looking for a Mesothelioma Attorney

CPSM — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:57:26 +0000

Today I saw a press release where the word mesothelioma was written 26 times in one paragraph! And you know what the article was saying: Don’t trust mesothelioma attorneys because they are all about marketing! Really – this accusation offended me to the point that I had to write this public rebuttal. First the article said [...]

A Must Read if Looking for a Mesothelioma Attorney is a post from: Mesothelioma Blog, the official blog of Clapper, Patti, Schweizer & Mason mesothelioma attorneys with more than 25 years experience helping clients.

Principal, Pastor, Landlord Exposes Tenants to Deadly Asbestos

CPSM — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:34:30 +0000

Scandal hit Albany New York last month as a respected pastor and school principle was fingered in an asbestos scare that affected an entire neighborhood. Timothy Fowler of the More Abundant Living Ministries is also the principal of Thomas O’Brien Academy of Science and Technology in Albany, New York. Unfortunately, this well-respected man of the [...]

Principal, Pastor, Landlord Exposes Tenants to Deadly Asbestos is a post from: Mesothelioma Blog, the official blog of Clapper, Patti, Schweizer & Mason mesothelioma attorneys with more than 25 years experience helping clients.

Asbestos: Basic Facts Everyone Should Know

CPSM — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:37:53 +0000

Twenty years ago, many people had not heard the word asbestos or mesothelioma. Now, pretty much everyone has seen at least one commercial or advertisement that warns that exposure to asbestos causes a type of terminal cancer called mesothelioma. Here are the basic facts about asbestos that everyone should know to avoid any unwanted and [...]

Asbestos: Basic Facts Everyone Should Know is a post from: Mesothelioma Blog, the official blog of Clapper, Patti, Schweizer & Mason mesothelioma attorneys with more than 25 years experience helping clients.

Top 3 Ways to Minimize Symptoms of Mesothelioma

CPSM — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:35:04 +0000

Mesothelioma is an incurable cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Asbestos fibers lodge in the lining of the body’s internal organs and a form malignant tumor, most often not discovered until decades after the exposure and only after the cancer has reached advanced stages. Because of this, mesothelioma treatment is focused [...]

Top 3 Ways to Minimize Symptoms of Mesothelioma is a post from: Mesothelioma Blog, the official blog of Clapper, Patti, Schweizer & Mason mesothelioma attorneys with more than 25 years experience helping clients.

Official Cover-Up after Police Officers and Family Knowingly Exposed to Asbestos

CPSM — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:18:37 +0000

A breaking story in New South Wales just gets more and more bizarre by the day. Earlier last month officials announced that they had unearthed what appeared to be a paper trail indicating that police officers and their families had been knowingly exposed to asbestos — yet nothing was done about it. Not only were the [...]

Official Cover-Up after Police Officers and Family Knowingly Exposed to Asbestos is a post from: Mesothelioma Blog, the official blog of Clapper, Patti, Schweizer & Mason mesothelioma attorneys with more than 25 years experience helping clients.

Asbestos Concerns Delay the Fate of Historic Gainesboro School

CPSM — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:52:43 +0000

Frederick County officials are weighing the financial cost for demolition of the old Gainesboro Elementary School, a building full of asbestos containing materials and other hazardous wastes, while hoping a buyer will step in to take the burden off their hands. The school, like thousands before it, was constructed during a time when construction with asbestos [...]

Asbestos Concerns Delay the Fate of Historic Gainesboro School is a post from: Mesothelioma Blog, the official blog of Clapper, Patti, Schweizer & Mason mesothelioma attorneys with more than 25 years experience helping clients.

U-Haul Employee Fired After Discovering Asbestos Threat

CPSM — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:31:10 +0000

The operators of a U-Haul storage facility in San Francisco have been charged with illegally terminating one of their employees after he made known a potentially deadly asbestos threat. Asbestos is a known carcinogen and even small amounts of the material can cause deadly mesothelioma, various forms of lung cancer, and other diseases such as [...]

U-Haul Employee Fired After Discovering Asbestos Threat is a post from: Mesothelioma Blog, the official blog of Clapper, Patti, Schweizer & Mason mesothelioma attorneys with more than 25 years experience helping clients.

D.C. Area Inspectors Caught in Asbestos Related Bribery Scam

CPSM — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:01:15 +0000

Two Washington D.C. Department of Environment specialists face criminal charges in relation to a bribery scam that put money in their pockets and hazardous wastes, including asbestos, in public places. The specialists were arrested at the beginning of last month in an elaborate sting operation involving multiple law enforcement agencies including the FBI. The agents allegedly [...]

D.C. Area Inspectors Caught in Asbestos Related Bribery Scam is a post from: Mesothelioma Blog, the official blog of Clapper, Patti, Schweizer & Mason mesothelioma attorneys with more than 25 years experience helping clients.

Fox Chase Cancer Center Treats Mesothelioma

CPSM — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:17:27 +0000

Mesothelioma is a rare, aggressive form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos. Hundreds of thousands of people die every year around the world from this deadly disease. Because this type of cancer has a long latency period of up to fifty years and the symptoms are non-specific, diagnosis of mesothelioma is often not made [...]

Fox Chase Cancer Center Treats Mesothelioma is a post from: Mesothelioma Blog, the official blog of Clapper, Patti, Schweizer & Mason mesothelioma attorneys with more than 25 years experience helping clients.