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Lone Star Industries, defendant in the multi-million dollar mesothelioma lawsuit, wasn’t happy with the $12.5 million dollars a jury awarded the plaintiff, Charles Cundiff, in California Superior Court earlier this month. Cundiff was awarded the massive sum because he was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2008.
His lawyers successfully argued the disease was due to exposure [...]

It’s a phenomenon that happens all too often—plaintiffs in asbestos lawsuits don’t live long enough to see the potential award because mesothelioma claims their lives.  The asbestos lawsuit then turns into a wrongful death suit, with heirs finishing the litigation.
A typical example is the case of Nancy Lopez, who filed a mesothelioma lawsuit in March [...]

Whenever we are selecting a jury in our asbestos-injury cases we hear from the majority of the juror candidates that they believe there are “too many lawsuits today” and that too many of these lawsuits are “frivolous.”  The legal definition of frivolous is “of little weight or importance.” The average person’s usage of the term [...]

Congoleum Corporation’s Chief Financial Officer Howard N. Feist reported that the “District Court of New Jersey has entered an order confirming Congoleum’s Fourth Amended Plan of Reorganization. With the District Court’s confirmation order, Congoleum will now proceed with the steps necessary to implement the plan.”
Congoleum Corporation manufactured vinyl asbestos floor tiles through 1975.  These tiles [...]

Last month, San Francisco Superior Court Judge McBride ruled to create a department that will exclusively handle all asbestos lawsuits due to the overwhelming size of asbestos-related cases.  McBride is hoping that by creating such a division, not only will cases make it to trial in a timelier manner, but also that more cases may [...]