Science, law and mass torts are increasingly intersecting and driving change.  The cancer research and medical communities are currently...

The Napoli Bern saga continues, and Bloomberg provided a refreshed description of the saga in a November 7, 2016 story titled Hell is...

The future continues to arrive, and part of it is toxicoepigenetics. This week’s Toxicoepigenetics workshop in the DC area should be...

The Johns-Manville chapter 11. A debacle of expediency and short-term thinking from 1992-1998, and then later “do overs.” In one of its...

Last week brought $88 million of losses for insurers and others in “talc” verdicts. A recent talk by Peyton Manning to insurance...

A new commentary article addresses the so-called “third view” of the “bare metal” defense; the commentary is from the defense side and is...

Welding rods with asbestos are back at issue, with a new loss for the defense side in a mesothelioma case, if one accepts as accurate a...

Plaintiffs continue to probe the limits of bankruptcy court injunctions, an effort that is even more interesting while the Second...

A post from defense lawyers evaluates the March 2016 decision in Davis v. Honeywell Int’l Inc., 199 Cal.Rptr.3d 583 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016)....

As to asbestos, Europe is interesting in having been both ahead and behind of the US in addressing concerns and issues. Today, Europe’s...

Why should mass tort stakeholders care about toxicoepigenetics?  The start of the explanation is provided in an article online here; it...

An interesting open access paper in the BJM discusses the process of and some values of a hospital using a multidisciplinary team to...

Deja vu all over agains struck recently because asbestos-in-buildings litigation reared its head recently due to a New York Law Journal...

A friend let me know the following humor appeared this week on The Insurance Insider, along with some praise for Praedicat and its...

MesobanK UK published the chart as part of its September 2016 update. It’s good to see more progress in gathering samples and data. See...

It’s hard to believe, but now out is:  Where Are They Now, Part Eight: An Update On Developments In Asbestos-Related Bankruptcy Cases....

The Mesothelioma Foundation’s next Symposium stop is Chicago on October 7. As they explain at the web site at curemeso.org: “So far this...

Today is Mesothelioma Day. It’s a day to regret so many unintended deaths, and to invest in research to stop or slow the disease. It’s...

Deeply understanding interactions between genes is one of the next frontiers for molecular researchers. As a result of 15 years of work,...

Definitions matter when it comes to defining “asbestos,” and the facts matter when parties are arguing about causes (or not) of...