The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
Selling asbestos fibers today seems not real bright. As a result, this blog includes this post and this post highlighting the flaws in the arguments for selling asbestos fibers for "controlled use." But Jon Stewart and the Daily Show just did it in a big way, as shown here by opponents of asbestos fiber sales.The Canadian Press later picked up on the story on the story.
Kudos to Stewart and Company for publicizing the folly.
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