The Eagle-Tribune is reporting that parents are putting the pressure on school officials in Haverhill to build a new middle school after it was revealed that there are issues with asbestos at the school. Asbestos exposure in Massachusetts, even for a short period of time, can lead to lifelong consequences.…
The Maine Campus, student newspaper of the University of Maine, is reporting that a heated public debate erupted recently over a proposal to triple the amount of waste a landfill there would be authorized to accept. Residents were understandably upset that officials were considering accepting up to 32 million cubic…
Medford officials may want to start taking asbestos exposure more seriously. As The Medford Transcript recently reported, the Medford Police Department has ignored for years the health risks associated with exposed asbestos, which was found in its building years ago. Boston mesothelioma lawyers have noticed the department’s safety issues and…
A former railroad employee has filed a lawsuit against the Illinois Central Railroad after being exposed to asbestos when he worked there between 1953 and 1991, The Madison Record reports. Railroads are among the industries that regularly used asbestos for years in its trains, on its tracks and in many…
A recent case out of Australia highlights the prevalence of asbestos worldwide in years past. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, a 42-year-old man was recently awarded $2 million after developing mesothelioma by playing in asbestos dust at an orphanage there. In the early 1970s, when researchers were studying asbestos…
Maybe it’s just us Boston mesothelioma lawyers, but it seems like there have been many more instances of asbestos-related violations lately. It could be that the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is finally getting serious about asbestos exposure, or maybe construction and real estate officials have become lax in their…
A Mississippi judge is in hot water after the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled that he shouldn’t have presided over an asbestos trial where the victim was awarded $322 million, the largest single-plaintiff asbestos award ever, Thomson Reuters reports. The judge had a conflict of interest that should have prevented him…
The Medford School Department has been fined $30,000 for improperly disposing of asbestos tiling at the Curtis Tufts Alternative High School, The Boston Globe reports. What is sad here is that not only did the school not conform to rules and proper procedures for removing asbestos, but also that this…
As the Mesothelioma Lawyers Blog reported in August, a Massachusetts developer was recently fined $100,000 for not removing asbestos as state and federal officials had ordered. New York officials topped that recently, charging a businessman federally with exposing workers to asbestos, the Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester reports. There’s a…
A recent article out of Pennsylvania makes some good points about mesothelioma in New England and beyond. The good news is that at least National Mesothelioma Awareness Day has gotten into the national psyche and provided more awareness of this incurable and fatal form of cancer. The day, designated as…