Posted in November 20th, 2009
An announcement has recently been made to confirm who will be chairing an up and coming important asbestos conference that will be held next year in California. The conference will take place in March of next year at the Ritz-Carlton in Marina Del Rey.
The announcement about who would be chairing this annual conference was made […]
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Posted in November 20th, 2009
The mother of the youngest victim of mesothelioma in the UK has said that she will fight to learn the truth about how and why her daughter contracted the asbestos cancer that killed her, and has promised that she will do it alone of necessary because her lawyers have given up on the case.
Leigh […]
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Posted in November 19th, 2009
The owner of a New York building is to be cited as a result of improper removal of asbestos in the building, with a tip off resulting in authorities not only investigating the allegations but also catching the building owner and his workers in the act of improperly disposing of the asbestos.
There are very strict […]
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Posted in November 19th, 2009
An Appeals Court is said to have upheld a multi million dollar verdict against Georgia Pacific in the case of a woman who was exposed to asbestos and went on to develop asbestos cancer from her home remodelling business.
The original trial saw the jury award Joan Mahoney over six million dollars back in 2008 […]
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Posted in November 18th, 2009
A man from California has been charged with providing asbestos removal workers with certification without actually providing them with the proper training. The man has been accused of trying to defraud employers as a result of his practices.
The man, Rogelio Lowe from E&D Environmental Safety Training Inc, is said to have been providing workers with […]
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Posted in November 18th, 2009
According to a recent report the Wisconsin State Department of Commerce has had to retract a report that related to serious violations of health and safety, including asbestos violations, at the University of Wisconsin. It will now be looking at and rewriting the report before any further steps are taken.
An official from the Department of […]
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Posted in November 17th, 2009
According to researchers working at a Boston women’s hospital an immunosuppressant drug called Sirolimus can help with mesothelioma treatment. Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is linked to long term or high level exposure to asbestos, which is a known and potentially deadly carcinogenic that was once widely used in a range of applications.
The […]
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Posted in November 17th, 2009
A recent report has shown that the number of mesothelioma victims is continuing to rise in the West Midlands area of England. Home to the Black Country, which was know for its rich industrial history, as well as many other industrial areas, this is a region where malignant mesothelioma is said to be rife.
Reports were […]
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Posted in November 16th, 2009
An asbestos victim who has contracted the asbestos cancer mesothelioma has won a massive twenty million dollars after contracting the disease through exposure to asbestos on a secondary basis. The woman, and nursing professor, is thought to have been exposed to asbestos through washing clothing.
It is claimed that she used to wash her grandfather’s […]
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Posted in November 16th, 2009
A study is to be performed into the effects that vermiculite mining has had on the health of residents and their offspring in the town of Libby in Montana. This is where the W R Grace vermiculite mine was located, and the town has a high rate of asbestos cancer.
An announcement was made by researches […]
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Posted in November 13th, 2009
A company has recently announced the national launch of a number of diagnostic cancer tests, which should help to identify different types of cancer, which would subsequently make it easier for more appropriate and effective treatment to be given to patients and for a faster diagnosis to be made.
The announcement was made by Prometheus Laboratories […]
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Posted in November 13th, 2009
A former senior court clerk from New York has claimed that she was unfairly dismissed from her job because she warned people about asbestos in the workplace and spoke out about safety at work. Shelly Warner-Levison was a senior court clerk in Potsdam, New York.
She spoke out about asbestos as Potsdam Civic Center following the […]
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Posted in November 12th, 2009
A company in Australia has been slated after it was claimed that it failed to carry out inspections properly at a hospital in East Melbourne, where asbestos contamination had been caused by men that had sawed though asbestos containing concrete.
The incident occurred at the Mercy Hospital site in East Melbourne, and following the incident work […]
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Posted in November 12th, 2009
The annual Zombie Walk held in Richmond, Virginia, has once again helped to raise money for the American Cancer Society. The Zombie Walk took place just before Halloween this year, with participants dressed up as all sorts of zombies, from police officer zombies to Girl Scout zombies.
The Richmond Zombie Walk was fist organized in 2006 […]
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Posted in November 11th, 2009
A lawyer from New York has stated recently that asbestos exposure risks remain very high in the United States, making potential asbestos exposure very much a twenty first century problem. He added that raising awareness about the dangers of asbestos could potentially help to save many lives.
Joseph Belluck focuses on helping victims of asbestos exposure, […]
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Posted in November 11th, 2009
A woman from the UK whose husband died from the asbestos cancer known as mesothelioma is hoping to raise awareness about the cancer and the other dangers of asbestos exposure. Fifty nine year old Elaine Haskins was widowed in 2005 after her sixty six year old husband died from the cancer.
Mrs Haskins is now […]
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Posted in November 10th, 2009
According to a recent report a new trial has been ordered in the case of the family of a man who tried to sue following this death due to malignant mesothelioma. Three judges at the Tennessee Court of Appeals decided that there had been errors in the way in which the jury had been instructed […]
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Posted in November 10th, 2009
A new campaign has been started in the UK by health officials to try and raise awareness of the effects of asbestos exposure. The campaign aims to help the many people that may still be in contact with asbestos on a regular basis, such as tradesmen and those in certain occupations, but may not be […]
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Posted in November 9th, 2009
Three women who lost their husbands to asbestos diseases have been awarded a total of five and a half million dollars. The three men that died had worked at the Union Asbestos and Rubber Co. in the 1950s and 1960s, and it is alleged that this is where they were exposed to the potentially […]
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Posted in November 9th, 2009
A report that has been released by the Workers Compensation Board in Quebec has named asbestos as the number one workplace killer in the area. The figures showed that around sixty percent of workplace fatalities amongst Quebec workers stemmed from asbestos exposure.
The report indicates that in the first eight months of this year around one […]
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Posted in November 6th, 2009
A family from the UK has recently spoken out about their cancer misery, after three members of the family were struck down with cancer, two of them contracting the asbestos cancer mesothelioma. While one member of the family died from the cancer the other two are now well on the way to recovery.
Forty five year […]
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Posted in November 5th, 2009
A man from the UK who died from the asbestos cancer, mesothelioma, has continued to lobby for justice for asbestos related disease sufferers even after his death. Alan Clark was a former thermal insulation engineer and as a result of his work he developed the asbestos cancer.
The British man was diagnosed with pleural […]
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Posted in November 4th, 2009
A school in Fulton Illinois has been closed as a result of concerns over asbestos exposure according to a recent report. The local high school has had to be closed and the homecoming game has also been canceled as a result of the concerns.
The concerns over Fulton High School were raised after the removal of […]
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Posted in November 3rd, 2009
The family of a repairman who died from the asbestos cancer mesothelioma has been awarded two and a quarter million dollars by a jury in New York. The compensation was made up of one and a half million dollars in compensation plus an additional three quarters of a million dollars in punitive damages.
The jury […]
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Posted in November 2nd, 2009
Concern has been expressed recently over an eighty five year old man who has developed the asbestos cancer known as mesothelioma, for which he was awarded compensation. A chemical plant operator and plumber for nearly forty years Gordon Conley may never actually see more than a fraction of the compensation he was awarded.
The reason […]
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Posted in October 30th, 2009
Two global corporate giants are facing having to pay out nearly half a million GBP between them in relation to asbestos related lawsuits. The two companies are the world’s biggest food company, Nestle, and the global energy giant Esso.
Esso has already been ordered to pay three hundred thousand GBP to a woman who lost her […]
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Posted in October 29th, 2009
Many people that are diagnosed with a wide range of cancers such as malignant mesothelioma, the asbestos cancer, are put through a series of treatments that can be very draining and invasive. One report has claimed that patients such as these could really benefit from complementary therapy alongside their mesothelioma treatment.
One form of therapy that […]
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Posted in October 28th, 2009
It has been claimed that sufferers of the asbestos cancer, mesothelioma, as well as sufferers of other forms of cancer could find that they are able to breathe far more easily through taking part in yoga sessions. A report claims that yoga could help patients to control their breathing more easily and put their body […]
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Posted in October 27th, 2009
It has been reported that the health of a number of volunteer students in Michigan has been put at risk recently, after the teens volunteered to help out with the clean up at Michigan Central Train Station. The students volunteered to help last month but were exposed to a potentially deadly substance, asbestos.
Asbestos exposure can […]
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Posted in October 26th, 2009
A furniture store in the UK is facing legal action from the family of one of its former store managers, who died from the asbestos cancer known as mesothelioma. The lawsuit has been filed by the family of the man, who was seventy one year old Brian Harrison who was diagnosed with the cancer in […]
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