After in camera review, a Rhode Island judge rejected work product and confidentiality arguments asserted by Early Lucarelli et. al. in...

According to a February 5, 2014 post at IBAS news by Laurie Kazan-Allen, a French "workers compensation" agency has recognized ovarian...

Medical liens continue to grow in importance in terms of who ends up paying for what as to asbestos-related disease. In Scotland, an...

Researchers continue to increase the volume of quantitative data available taken from tissue to better understand past exposures in...

New papers continue to arrive from the Lin and Wang group that analyzes data from an ongoing study of Chinese chrysotile mine workers in...

A new, free paper describes describes "the case of a woman who presented with acute onset of interscapular pain, haemodynamic...

As lung cancer claims flood into asbestos litigation, one wonders if more attention will be paid to genomics by insurers, former sellers...

Hmm – Legal Newsline issued an article republishing Brayton Purcell’s best 2013 outcomes in asbestos litigation. It seems likely that...

Cures for mesothelioma? Not yet. But doctors and researchers continue to make progress in extending lives. For more on the subject,...

You loved her NYT article on Friday: “Landscapes Tainted by Asbestos.” Now see the matching asbestos map of the United States, from...

The Garlock opinion certainly is generating lots of words – many of them pretty useless. Unfortunately, the opinion motivated Joe Nocera...

New mesothelioma data from Ireland. It shows significantly increasing rates of mesothelioma; about a 45% percent increase over 15 years....

The long-running UK saga of mesothelioma legislation has ended without changes sought by victim’s rights groups to increase compensation....

A new paper covers erionite and offretite from the Killdeer Mountains, Dunn County, North Dakota, U.S.A. It is online – the abstract is...

2014 medical journals are in the mail, and illustrate that researchers continue to explore the reactions and impacts between asbestos...

With a hat tip to Laurie Kazan-Allen, note that a group of Australian construction industry interests donated $400k (AU) for mesothelioma...

Laurie Kazan-Allen of IBAS provided a timely reminder that updates are ahead for the Helsinki Critera for asbestos diseases. The forum...

The UK Mesothelioma Act continues to wend its way through the legislative process. The most recent action on specific language occurred...

Lung cancer claiming in asbestos litigation is one of the current "hot topics." This week the dialog will continue at Perrin Conference’s...

(The picture above shows one of two halls used for poster sessions at ASH 2013. The picture is courtesy of Pieter Droppert, who writes...