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When a loved one dies of malignant mesothelioma, it is natural for those left behind to seek justice from those who exposed them to the asbestos that led to their disease. This is especially true if the entity at fault was aware of asbestos’ dangers, as happened in a case recently heard in New York: …Read More

Delaying legal proceedings is a strategy that’s frequently used by asbestos companies facing mesothelioma litigation. The tactic takes advantage of the physical, emotional, and financial toll that asbestos-related diseases take on victims, pushing them to accept settlements that are lower than what they would likely be awarded in court. Knowing this, an asbestos victim who …Read More

The Supreme Court of New York recently denied the arguments of an asbestos manufacturer that was attempting to evade responsibility for a man’s death from malignant mesothelioma. The court wrote that pump manufacturer Milton Roy was attempting “to circumvent the standards of summary judgment” by offering testimony from a person with no knowledge of the …Read More

Diseases like malignant mesothelioma and asbestosis are frequently the result of workplace exposure to asbestos. Following her husband’s death from asbestos-related lung cancer, Susan Carboni pursued legal action against the companies she blames for exposing him to asbestos-contaminated materials, including Porsche Cars, North America. Though the company argued that it should be dismissed from the …Read More

James McWilliams has little doubt about how he came to have malignant pleural mesothelioma. After a lifetime of work as a steamfitter, he blames asbestos in Jenkins Bros. valves for his illness and sued the company for the damages that he suffered. Earlier this year a New York City jury awarded him $23 million in …Read More

Richard Daciw’s personal injury lawsuit originally listed over 50 different manufacturers, suppliers, and others that he accused of negligence in having exposed him to the deadly carcinogen asbestos. The mineral, which is the cause of malignant mesothelioma, can also lead to serious illnesses including lung cancer and asbestosis, with the latter being the illness that …Read More

Facing a personal injury lawsuit filed by a Navy veteran diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma, pump manufacturer Armstrong Pumps attempted to have the case against them dismissed. Though the company argued that there were gaps in his testimony that warranted them evading judgment, the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division denied their motion and the case …Read More

Four years after her husband’s death from malignant mesothelioma, Pamela Shellenberger won a significant jury against the dairy farm that she holds responsible for his illness and death. Though her original personal injury claim against Kreider Dairy Farms was dismissed by the Philadelphia Common Pleas court, she appealed that decision and the Superior Court of …Read More

Though the name Goodyear is most frequently associated with tires, the company was also a major supplier of floor tiles in the 1970s and years previous to that, and as a result they’re frequently named in mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis lawsuits. That’s because many of those tiles were contaminated with asbestos. In a recent …Read More

In 2021, The widow of Kevan Holdsworth was awarded nearly $17 million by the Washington state jury hearing her mesothelioma claim. Sherrie Holdsworth and her late husband had sued Scapa Waycross, manufacturers of asbestos-contaminated dryer felts used by the paper mill where he’d worked for almost forty years. Throughout the trial, the asbestos company argued …Read More

A California jury has ordered the iconic cosmetic company Avon and another defendant to pay $52.1 million in damages to a 76-year-old woman and her husband as compensation for causing her malignant mesothelioma. The woman had claimed that Avon’s talc-based products were contaminated with asbestos, and after weighing the testimony in the case, the jury …Read More

In the face of tens of thousands of personal injury claims filed by malignant mesothelioma and ovarian cancer victims, Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary LTL Management has filed a disparagement claim against the author of a frequently cited article. Dr. Jacqueline Moline published the work titled Mesothelioma Associated with the Use of Cosmetic Talc in 2019. …Read More

Frequently, defendants in mesothelioma and asbestos-related claims turn on one another in order to evade having to carry too much liability. Such was the case in a recent lawsuit filed by a man diagnosed with asbestos-related lung cancer. Though one of the companies tried to have the case against them thrown out for vagueness, other …Read More

After Kirk Reulet’s 2019 death from malignant mesothelioma, his family filed a wrongful death and survival action against multiple companies that they blamed for having negligently exposed him to asbestos, as well as insurance companies that issued policies for those companies. Though one insurance company asked to be dismissed from the case, the judge denied …Read More

Washington state resident Jeffrey Cockrum filed a mesothelioma lawsuit against Howmet Aerospace, the successor to his former employer, and several other companies. He later dismissed his original claim and resubmitted it to add another company to the list of defendants. In response, Howmet accused him of fraudulent joinder, a legal term that describes inappropriate adding …Read More

A King County, Washington jury has awarded $5.75 million in damages to the estate of a mesothelioma victim who filed a lawsuit against Volkswagen Group of America and Volkswagen AG. The victim, Thomas Sorrentino, died shortly after his diagnosis with the aggressive form of cancer, but in the time he had left, he provided essential …Read More

An oil refinery operated for decades by Hess in the U.S. Virgin Islands has been blamed for countless cases of malignant mesothelioma and other asbestos injuries. Though victims have sought justice against HONX, Inc. for years, the company has evaded liability through a series of legal maneuvers. Recently, the company announced a deadline of March …Read More

Michael Galier has happy childhood memories of visiting Oklahoma construction sites with his dad and playing at those sites with his brothers, but those fun times were also the cause of his malignant mesothelioma. When he filed suit against the Texas company whose asbestos he’d been exposed to as a child, they claimed they could …Read More

Though Captain Francis J. Burger may not be an expert in malignant mesothelioma, he does know a lot about the use of asbestos onboard Navy vessels. His decades of experience in shipbuilding and his knowledge of Navy specifications made him a natural expert witness in a case involving asbestos exposure onboard the USS Purdy.  Despite …Read More

Herbert Tabor never dreamed that his work at Avondale Shipyards would eventually lead to his wife’s death from malignant mesothelioma. But seven years of laundering asbestos-covered clothing meant that Ethel Tabor inhaled countless deadly asbestos fibers that infiltrated her pleural lining and grew into the deadly form of cancer. Now her family is seeking justice …Read More