Category: Asbestos

The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine announced it has received a five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop an educational program “to help empower residents to shape the future of their communities, and explain the potential consequences associated with asbestos exposure.” Residents of West and South Ambler, Pennsylvania are at an …

New York, NY, August 23, 2012 — The New York law firm of Belluck & Fox, LLP, reports that Justice Joan Madden of the Supreme Court of New York has upheld a 2011 jury verdict that found Crane Co. reckless and 99 percent responsible for the asbestos exposure of Ronald Dummitt, a U.S. Navy veteran …

For the first time ever, organizations from across the globe joined together to call for “a global ban on the mining, use, and export of all forms of asbestos.” A committee of scientists from 13 epidemiology societies issued the statement this week after confirming “that all types of asbestos fiber are causally implicated in the …