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Videos – Best of iMig Day 1 – For Chrysotile Defendants, Good News and Not So Good News
iMig has posted videos of plenary sessions from Day 1 iMig 2014, and summaries of some other sessions. Best of Imig 2014 – Day 1 is...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 23, 20142 min read
UK Supreme Court Rules for Plaintiff in What US Lawyers Would Call an Premises Asbestos Case
A victory for the plaintiff in a UK in a case that US lawyers would refer to as an asbestos premises case. The case was covered before in...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 22, 20141 min read
iMig Day 3 Focuses on the Immune System and Meso, and Speakers on Social and Financial Issues
Day 3 of iMig includes three different “tracks” for attendees. The science track today is focused on mesothelioma and the immune system....

Kirk Hartley
Oct 22, 20141 min read
iMig Day 2 – More Molecular Information, and Some Hope
Day 2 of iMig 2014 is on October 22, and is not your father’s mesothelioma science conference. In the past, there was little positive to...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 21, 20141 min read
An Implicit Message for the Toxic Tort Litigation Industry News – Tripled Profits for Illumina
Need more proof that the future of toxic torts will involve molecular issues? Consider that the impact of gene sequencing shows up in...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 21, 20141 min read
iMig Kicks Off in South Africa – NexGen Sequencing of Mesos Leads Off
The biennial meeting of iMig is underway as mesothelioma researchers gather in South Africa for three days of discussion of research on...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 20, 20141 min read
“Devil In the Dust” – Australia’s Old Wunderlich Factory for Asbestos Cement
“Devil in the Dust” is the title for an online, multimedia story about disease in persons who lived, played and worked in the vicinity of...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 20, 20141 min read
“Naturally Occurring Asbestos Near Populated Areas of Southern Nevada”
An October 18, 2014 press release highlights and links to a new paper on geologic findings regarding naturally occurring asbestos in...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 20, 20143 min read
6 More Asbestos Lung Cancer Suits – in St. Clair County
An October 16, 2014 article from the Madison- St. Clair Record brings news of another recent set of six lung cancer case filings by Gori...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 20, 20141 min read


More Advertising for More Tobacco Claiming – NGOs Focused on Litigation Are Forces to Consider
Dragging down big tobacco is a massive job. Asbestos defendants never have figured out how to do it successfully, perhaps in part because...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 15, 20142 min read
“A short history of the toxicology of inhaled particles”
“A short history of the toxicology of inhaled particles” is a helpful history for persons thinking about asbestos and disease, as well as...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 14, 20141 min read
“Mesothelioma in a Wine Cellar Man” – from Italy
A depressing article, for multiple reasons. The title is: Mesothelioma in a Wine Cellar Man: Detailed Description of Working Procedures...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 10, 20142 min read
“Cancer incidence among 41,000 offshore oil industry workers”
The numbers of cancers continues to increase around the globe, and asbestos exposure is often scrutinized as researchers seek to answer...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 10, 20142 min read
Chicago – October 10, 2014 – Mesothelioma Treatments Conference
For lawyers and others, on Friday October 10, 2014, there is a Chicago area opportunity to learn more about the genomics of mesothelioma,...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 7, 20142 min read
ACI’s Philadelphia Asbestos Conference – More Focus on Science and Lung Cancer
More asbestos conferences, and more on cancers and science. ACI hosts its annual asbestos litigation conference in Philadelphia on...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 7, 20142 min read
Lung Cancer Claims Take Center Stage for a HarrisMartin Asbestos Litigation Conference
Some see lung cancer claiming as associated only with the Napoli Bern law firm. But that’s not correct. More and more, members of the...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 6, 20143 min read
“KLS Equity to Open Second Round of Asbestos Advertising”
The mass tort world never ceases to amaze. Asbestos litigation advertising apparently includes the group approach described in the the...

Kirk Hartley
Sep 30, 20142 min read
Mesothelioma Awareness Day, and MARF and Mary Hesdorffer
Today is “mesothelioma awareness day.” Obviously most mass tort lawyers know something about mesothelioma. The rest of the world,...

Kirk Hartley
Sep 26, 20141 min read
Tuesday 9/23 – MicroRNA Tools for Trial Use for Evaluating Asbestos-Related Cancers and Other
How to use microRNA in trials? My law school education did not cover microRNA, nor did it even cover much about DNA. But today, there’s...

Kirk Hartley
Sep 22, 20142 min read
“High incidence of lung cancer and malignant mesothelioma linked to erionite fibre exposure in
A new research paper reports as follows: “Abstract Objective To report the high incidence of lung cancer (LC) and malignant mesothelioma...

Kirk Hartley
Sep 19, 20141 min read
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