The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
Lung cancer claiming in asbestos litigation is not limited to persons who worked directly with asbestos. To the contrary, some family members claim that their lung cancer arises from another family member working around asbestos. An example from 2014 in Cook County is here; it is a case filed by the Vogelzang firm.
Issues arising from criminal prosecutions of former managers at an asbestos-cement plant (Everite) are up on appeal, as described in a February 2, 2021 post at the Ban Asbestos Secretariat run by Ms.
Some "toxins" are long-lived, and so decisions made decades ago continue to ripple through current events. A "now in the news" example is the Carolina Asbestos Company in North Carolina. In the first
The Isle of Jersey will be making lump sum mesothelioma payments as a result of citizen requests through an “e-petition,” as described in this 30 September 2019 online article at gov.je.news. Accordin