Asbestos headlines continue in Australia, such as an article about Baryulgil in a November 7, 2015 article in The Saturday Paper.

Asbestos litigation keeps on going. Indeed, a couple of weeks ago, AM Best put out yet another iteration of its annual report on asbestos...

Spending continues apace on judicial elections as defense and plaintiff interests jockey to keep or put judges in office. The overall...

For years, I’ve been barking about the failure of asbestos defendants to look at and invest in science related to asbestos disease. Now,...

Who recently said insurers are under-reserved for asbestos litigation despite several years of increasing reserves ? The...

The stories about uses of asbestos can be amazing. Here is one that is taken from an October 11, 2015 article in the News-Sentinel about...

Change is a constant in asbestos litigation. One new change for 2015  is four prominent plaintiff firms banding together for the the...

Today, a fact of life is that judges are invited to and do speak at conferences that gather persons interested in a topic. Sometimes the...

People always seem to be seeking data on the volume and location of asbestos litigation.  A June 2015 paper provides summary information...

At a Perrin asbestos litigation conference a couple of years back, Joe Rice commented on the continuing increases in the filing of  lung...

Peritoneal mesotheliomas remain a focus of the “new and improved”  web sites related to law firms that act for plaintiffs in asbestos...

Today will bring a new experience in speaking and writing about asbestos litigation: presenting as part of a panel at the 2015 annual...

Harvey Pass at WCLC 2015 The 2015 World Conference on Lung Cancer is underway in Denver. The posters and presentations are notable for...

Mesothelioma web sites continue to pick  up the pace of and quality of information disseminated regarding asbestos related diseases. A...

An August 3, 2015 story in Insurance Insider reports a notable new $150 million second quarter charge taken by CNA for asbestos...

The infamous Waukegan, Illinois plant of Johns-Manville remains essentially a ruined 300 lake front acres. A July 2, 2015 story in the...

The US Chamber of Commerce and the  plaintiff’s bar (the AAJ) battle back and forth, and keep track of each other’s activities and...

Readers of the blog know my view that science matters for toxic tort litigation, and have seen many posts here about aspects of the...

The medical and biology revolutions continue. Theranos now has FDA approval for 1 of its battery of blood tests that are cheap, fast and...

Scientists continue to find links between genetics, molecular conditions and diseases relevant to asbestos disease litigation. In this...