Soto v. BorgWarner Morse TEC, an appeal in the Court of Appeal for the State of California’s Second District, involved a plaintiff who died from asbestos-related mesothelioma. Several surviving family members of the Plaintiff, including plaintiff’s adult children and grandmother, filed the lawsuit against a variety of defendants the family…
Last month, a seven-alarm fire turned a large mill near the city of Worcester, Massachusetts into huge piles of rubble spread out over the large industrial lot. The owner of the lot wishes to demolish the rest of the rubble and clear the lot, but he is currently awaiting the…
According to a recent report from Recycling Today, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) issued a fine of over $36,000 to a recycling company in Millbury, Massachusetts for allegedly violating the Commonwealth’s law regarding the handling and disposal of asbestos and mercury. MassDEP employed both its asbestos program and…
According to a recent news story from The Buffalo News, a New York trial court jury has just awarded a plaintiff $1.42 million in mesothelioma case. The trial lasted nine days, and the plaintiff was a former United States military service member who was exposed to deadly asbestos material during…
Anyone who lives in the Washington, DC area is well aware of the troubles with the aging metro system, which operates much like Boston’s T system. However, unlike in Boston, the subway stations are very deep underground and there are huge escalators to take passengers up and down at the…
Before everyone had a television and long before the Internet was invented, a world’s fair was an exciting event where people got a glimpse of innovative new products and inventions and envisioned what the future might hold. As Arnold Koch describes in his recent article for Wicked Local Melrose, the…
Being a professional firefighter is a dangerous job. There is no question every time a firefighter responds to a call, he or she may be asked to rush into a burning hot building that is on the verge of collapsing. There have been many firefighters who were killed in the…
There has been a great deal of news coverage about Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (GTMO), or “Gitmo” as it is often called, and the military prison camp located on the base. This is, of course, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, used to house detainees in the War on Terror. Much of…
According to a recent news article from the Millbury Sutton Chronicle, local legislators have finally been successful in their long-standing effort to find funding to renovate the Grass Hill School. This historic school was constructed in 1861. The town operated the school until 1968 when it was closed. A local…
Asbestos is still found in many consumer products, and what most people do not know is that, with the asbestos ban determined to be institutional, having a product with small amounts of asbestos may be perfectly legal. However, according to a recent news article from Science Times, asbestos fibers have…