Category : Mesothelioma / Asbestos

Family of Mesothelioma Victim Receives $3.4 Million Jury Award

August 7th, 2009

A jury in San Francisco has ruled in favor of a plant worker from Beaumont, California who died from mesothelioma, awarding damages of $3.4 million.

The damages were awarded to the family of Richard Worthley Sr. who was a worker at the Johns-Manville Transite plant in Illinois for 24 years. The lawsuit had been filed by Worthley’s family against Advocate Mines Limited of Newfoundland, which supplied the asbestos to the Johns-Manville plant.

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Emeryville Company Will Pay Families of Asbestos Victims $4.3 Million

January 9th, 2009

The families of three workers in the Bay Area who died of asbestos-related lung cancer have been awarded a settlement of $4.3 million by an Emeryville company. The company, Plant Insulation Company, which was earlier an insulation products contractor was found liable for the deaths of William C. Hearn, a Concord resident, James Harris, of Sacramento County and George Wetch of Sebastopol. Hearn was exposed to asbestos at 59 industrial sites that he worked at during his employment. Wetch was employed at oil refinery plants and chemical factories in Contra Costa County, and Harris worked at Bay Area oil refineries.

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Supreme Court Maintains 2004 Asbestos Law is Retroactive

October 17th, 2008

In a move that’s bound to affect thousands of asbestos injuries cases filed in Ohio, the state’s Supreme Court has ruled that a 2004 law that places strict limitations on the kind of persons who can bring these lawsuits, may be applied to those cases that were already filed before the law was passed.

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Jury Awards $7 Million in Asbestos Case

March 14th, 2008

A former singer/actress and her husband have been awarded a sum of $7 million by a San Francisco jury as compensation for the health risks and injuries they suffered as a result of the exposure to asbestos in their home remodeling business.

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CSI Fingerprint Kit Toy Might Contain Friable Asbestos

January 3rd, 2008

Everyone is familiar with the ill effects of asbestos and the many diseases, including mesothelioma cancer, it has been linked to. Malignant mesothelioma cancer has been found to be strongly connected to exposure to Friable asbestosfriable asbestos fibers. So strong is this connection that companies constructing buildings using asbestos sheeting for insulation are requited by law to let people in the vicinity know about it, so they can take necessary precautions.

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