The Intersection Among Torts, Science, Corporate Law, Insurance & Bankruptcy
Kirk HartleyHere is the Madison County Record’s weekly report on new asbestos claims filings. The article lists fourteen new claims. Five of the claims are for lung cancer.
I’ve not done a meaningful analysis comparing the rate of lung cancer filings, but my gut is telling me that there is a developing uptick in the rate of lung cancer claims in asbestos litigation.
A March 26, 2021 NYT article uses the genomic analyses of Covid to provide a cogent overview of the ongoing revolution in genomic analyses. The article illustrates the need for and benefits from genom
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