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Did a Cost-Benefit analysis lead to a $322 million asbestos verdict?

May 09, 2011 15:54

The popular press is giving a lot of attention to an asbestos verdict out of Mississippi last week.  The Mississippi jury awarded a single defendant $322 million dollars in a lawsuit brought against Union Carbide Corporation and Chevron.  (The breakdown was $22 million in compensatory...

Major New York Asbestos Law Firm Resorts To Comment Spam

May 06, 2011 16:11

One of the lowest forms of Internet marketing is to visit the web sites of your competitors and leave worthless comments with links back to your own website.  Companies do this for two reasons.  First, it puts their name in front of your readers.  Second, generating a link back to...

Alabama Asbestos Exposure Sites

March 11, 2011 17:32

Whenever a client contacts me with an asbestos case, one of the first tasks I have to perform is to determine where the client was exposed to asbestos.  I have several resources to do this, including lists compiled by the companies who made asbestos products. I had an opportunity to look up...

Texas Asbestos Lawyers Obtain $27.5 Million Verdict In Mesothelioma Lawsuit

February 08, 2011 14:16

In September of 2010, a Brazoria county jury awarded $27.5 million dollars to the widow of an asbestos worker.  The asbestos lawyers who handled this case did a great job.  Unfortunately, because Texas law is not particularly friendly to injured citizens, the actual amount the widow will...

Jury Returns $1.6 million Verdict in Los Angeles Asbestos Lawsuit

February 07, 2011 23:23

On August 12th of 2010, a Los Angeles jury awarded $1,619,000 in an asbestos lawsuit filed against manufacturers of asbestos friction products.  Friction products is asbestos-lawyer shorthand for "clutches and brakes that contain asbestos."Like many asbestos lawsuits, this one was filed...

Union Pipefitter Wins West Virginia Mesothelioma Lawsuit

February 07, 2011 03:23

On November 3rd of 2010, a West Virginia jury found that a pipefitter's mesothelioma was caused by exposure to John Crane gaskets.  The attorneys for both parties entered into a confidential agreement in which John Crane would pay a specific amount of money if they were found liable by...

New York Mesothelioma Lawsuit Ends In $1 Million Dollar Verdict

February 07, 2011 01:34

On November 12th of 2010, an Onondaga County jury returned a $1 million dollar verdict in a mesothelioma lawsuit filed against John Crane.  The lawsuit was filed by a gentleman who worked on tugboats as early as 1954.  During the years he worked on a tugboat, he was exposed to gaskets and...

California Mesothelioma Lawsuit Award Upheld By Appellate Court

February 06, 2011 01:55

Every asbestos lawyer knows that getting a big jury verdict doesn't actually mean you won anything.  Asbestos companies always appeal their losses, and the appellate courts can easily wipe out a great asbestos verdict.  In fact, they often do.  So I was happy to see an asbestos...

1911 - 5 out of 40 asbestos workers died

January 31, 2011 03:16

In 1911, Dr. Collis described the experiences of a factory in which asbestos mattresses were made: Asbestos. - Following up information received from the Registrar-General, it was found that five deaths of persons suffering from pthisis [A type of tuberculosis.] had occurred in five years among a...

1907 - Murray Publishes Autopsy of Asbestosis Victim

January 31, 2011 00:52

In 1899, Dr. H.M. Murray performed an autopsy on an asbestos worker who died in his mid thirties.  This man was the tenth individual in his work area to die at a young age due to a breathing impairment.  Dr. Murray noted that the man had interstitial fibrosis and "curious bodies" in his...