New England is a historic place — perhaps one of the most historic in our country. With our colonial-era buildings and national treasures, it is a favorite for tourists. But with the older buildings come inherent problems with asbestos exposure in New England. Asbestos was used in many old warehouses,…
Here we are in 2012 and companies are still not taking proper precautions to remove asbestos from buildings, despite detailed regulations about how it should be taken out. As our Mesothelioma Lawyers Blog has reported time and time again, schools throughout New England have been discovering that they were built…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently granted orphan drug status to a Japanese company that is attempting to research a drug that could treat malignant mesothelioma in Boston. Our Boston mesothelioma lawyers believe that the more research that is done on this fatal form of cancer, the better. Right…
Mississippi television station WAPT is reporting that a man who got an asbestos-related illness while working for an oil company recently was awarded more than $15 million by a jury. While these kinds of jury awards are impressive, they don’t change the fact that a man was severely injured and…
Newton school officials took a major step toward helping their students stay healthy and it wasn’t through new lunch choices or the removal of soda vending machines. The Boston Globe is reporting that officials spent more than $190 million to build the most expensive school in the state, but it…
It happens time and time again and yet it appears that real estate officials seem to never learn their lesson when they knock down buildings that contain asbestos in Massachusetts either incorrectly or without proper regard for the dangers of this natural mineral. This time in happened in Holliston, The…
Local developers in Whitman have plans to take a nearly 200-year-old church and turn it into an apartment complex. But officials have pointed out that there are risks of asbestos exposure in Massachusetts if it’s not removed properly, The Boston Globe reports. Our Massachusetts mesothelioma lawyers worry that when old…
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection recently penalized a Salem construction company nearly $40,000 because it hired an unlicensed asbestos contractor to work on two sites in 2010, the Boston Globe reports. Our Massachusetts mesothelioma lawyers have reported many times before about problems contractors have had in properly removing asbestos…
The city of Mobile, Alabama, is dealing with an old city hall building built with asbestos, a cancer-causing mineral found throughout the United States. A website of Alabama news, The Press-Register, reports that it will cost $240,000 to remove asbestos and other contaminants that have been found inside. This can…
The World Health Organization reported recently that more than 92,000 people died in 83 countries over a 15-year span that ended in 2008. While that is a low number considering the number of people there are worldwide — nearly 7 billion — one must take into consideration how many deaths…