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…
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…
A recent article published on MSNBC.com highlights the mineral erionite, which, like asbestos, is being blamed as a cause of mesothelioma in New England and beyond. The article looks at an area of Turkey where a majority of the deaths are being blamed on mesothelioma, a rare and incurable cancer…
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 Kentucky man and U.S. Navy veteran was awarded $32 million in damages after an eight-week trial in New York, WSAZ reports. While it’s a large sum of money, it will not stop the pleural mesothelioma with which the man has been diagnosed. Pleural mesothelioma in New England, and other…
National Mesothelioma Awareness Day is Sept. 26, according to The Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance, which is a good reminder to make sure people know the facts about mesothelioma in New England and beyond. Mesothelioma is a rare form of cancer, yet claims the lives of many people who were once exposed…
For several months, Boston Mesothelioma Lawyers have documented the more than two dozen asbestos processing plants that manufactured and distributed products that routinely used asbestos-laced vermiculite. Vermiculite is a naturally occurring mineral that was used for insulation and other products for decades in the United States. But what companies and…
Philadelphia researchers have found a link between mesothelioma and genetics, a study published online recently suggest, Philly.com reports. The study’s researchers hope that as more time and effort is put into studying mesothelioma that drugs can be developed that can lead to a cure for this currently incurable rare form…
The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention has highlighted more than two dozen factories throughout the country that processed vermiculite that was tainted with asbestos. The plants ceased in 1990 or earlier after it was discovered that the vermiculite, a natural mineral, was contaminated with asbestos, which can lead to…
A 70-year-old forensic sculptor, a rare field that aids police in investigating murder victims, died recently in Philadelphia of pleural mesothelioma, a rare form of incurable cancer. Boston Mesothelioma Lawyers have seen the devastation of family members who have lost a loved one to mesothelioma in New England, as it…