A recent paper provides a useful working summary of historic US federal regulations on asbestos use (OSHA and NESHAP), as well as ACGIH...

Just for grins, here is an article about a Canadian asbestos mine becoming a training ground for mechanical rovers. #Asbestos

The Asbestos Liability Risk Analysis (ALRA) Group continues to publish annual summaries of state by state asbestos claims data. The most...

Mt. Sinai is a famous place for asbestos lawyers. So, it’s worth mentioning that Carl Icahn is giving the school $ 200 million, and it’s...

The Internet continues as a powerful force for linking up some persons with mesothelioma and some plaintiff’s lawyers. According to the...

Australia’s James Hardie company is about to experience being depicted as a corporate bad actor in a new made for tv movie debuting this...

One of the challenges of mass tort litigation is that the landscape shifts in ways that no one can control because other defendants and...

Law and science intersect in court rooms in jury trials involving personal injury claims by person arguing that a cancer was caused by a...

An Economist article is here on Canada dropping its support for mining raw asbestos fibers. The result makes it a good day for the...

NPR reports that support for asbestos mining is going to be dropped by Canada’s new premier. #Asbestos

Asbestos risks, causes, claiming and compensation are increasingly frequent topics around the globe. The Japan Times published an August...

A new article in the Journal of Pathology presents molecular biology findings related to the oft-litigated question of whether...

A Japanese newspaper brings news that a trial court in Japan (Kobe District Court) has just held Kubota Corporation liable to pay about...

Despite too little funding, researchers continue to make progress on the molecular biology of mesothelioma, and possible new treatment...

Case management orders (CMOs) are an important part of managing mass tort litigation.  CMOs arise because mass tort cases tend to cluster...

The new case is summarized here in an alert from Guy Stilson of Low, Ball, and Stilson. The summary includes a link to the opinon. #Asbestos

The article below is from Mainichi. The numbers are not large, and the article is more interesting for its statements regarding an...

A trial judge in Japan has issued a ruling rejecting asbestos claims by construction workers. According to a Mainichi article, the ruling...

Trade associations face increasing amounts of litigation, and it appears one has now lost an asbestos personal injury case. Thus, an...

Yesterday, many of the "mesothelioma news" sites issued a "story" on a new British paper on heart disease and asbestos. The abstract is...