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...

Professional medical societies usually are not thought of as radical groups. Therefore, it’s especially notable that a large, global...

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...

Ralph Nader’s tort history museum is open and some media stories are providing an overview. It’s almost always useful to look at history...

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...

Software and data operate in binary code that changes very little, if at all, for borders (excluding homeland security issues for some...

Some naive lawyers (e.g. me) long ago thought civil litigation was about truth, justice and the American way. Not so; the University of...

Last week GM and now VW. Imagine trying an asbestos friction case in the next few months, and offering up a corporate witness to testify...

GM’s long journey continues. This week it obtained arguably favorable outcomes with settlements with the government, shareholders and...

What a great idea: researchers used a cohort of long-lived smokers to seek out genetic and molecular reasons for why those persons did...

Cybercrooks continue to find new ways to steal. One new scam involves stealing  ash card IDs through ATMs at busy hotels. The crooks...

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...

The good news for drug companies is that a federal judge in New York agrees there is a 1st Amendment right to provide information to...

After various delays, the new, more detailed ICD-10 coding takes effect in October. The ICD-10 coding is more detailed than is current...

2014  –  p53: The Gene that Cracked the Cancer Code by Sue Armstrong. Goodreads page is here. A useful and learned 2015 review by Prives...