Asbestos lawyers are filing more silicosis lawsuits on behalf of clients who claim they have suffered form exposure to silica, New York Times reported. Opponents, including a coalition of insurance companies, say there is no medical crisis.
Crystalline silica is highly purified quartz that is used to make glass, fiberglass, paints and ceramics, as well as […]

Asbestos bill, which would eliminate all asbestos litigation and instead pay asbestos cancer victims from a set schedule based on their disease, is struggling to stay alive on Capitol Hill, according to some people.
“This asbestos bill is not dead. It’s not on life support. But it’s in a hospice,” said David Austern, general counsel to […]

The proposed asbestos trust fund, which would eliminate all asbestos litigation and instead pay asbestos cancer victims from a set schedule based on their disease, has increased in size to $153 billion. Senators agreed to the additional $45 billion in financing in an effort to win support from Democrats and increase the likelihood the trust […]

Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, is leading an effort that would take asbestos lawsuits out of ordinary courts and establish a national system, which some call a trust fund, to compensate victims. The fund would have between $90 billion and $100 billion, people involved in the effort say.
Skyrocketing asbestos injury lawsuits are […]

U.S. Steel offered to settle after an Illinois jury awarded $250 million to Roby Whittington, 70, who suffers from mesothelioma attributed to asbestos exposure during 31 years of working in the company’s mill in Gary, Ind. Mesothelioma is an incurable and fatal cancer caused by asbestos inhalation.
The verdict in Illinois is the latest against corporations […]

A New York jury awarded more than $47 million to Robert Crouteau, a boilermaker who worked as a contractor for two New York utilities, who was diagnosed with cancer by exposure to asbestos, attorneys for the plaintiff said. Crouteau was diagnosed with mesothelioma in May of 2001.
The jury found both Consolidated Edision Inc. and KeySpan […]

PITTSBURGH — Halliburton, a pipeline services company, announced Wednesday that it has agreed to pay about $4 billion in cash and stock to settle about 300,000 current and future asbestos cases nationwide. The Huston-based industrial giant once led by Vice President Dick Cheney inherited the asbestos liabilities when it bought Dresser Industries in 1998.
Asbestos […]

JACKSON, Miss. — Dupont Co., Eastman Chemical Co. and other plastics manufactures are targets of new asbestos suits that claim makers of plastic industrial products containing asbestos are also to blame for workers health problems. The recent suits claim that such plastics, after becoming worn from use, may release health-threatening asbestos dust.
Many of the […]

MISSOURI — A St. Louis jury has ordered Aerojet General Corp to pay $5.1 million to the family of a 42-year-old woman who died of asbestos-related cancer after apparently being exposed to fibers while a toddler. The verdict came after Judge Robert Dierker sanctioned Aerojet and barred defense attorneys from presenting key evidence that the […]

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency was expected to warn Americans in April that their attics and walls might contain a brand of insulation known as Zonolite, which contains a lethal form of asbestos known as tremolite. But at the last minute the White House prevented such announcement. Zonolite insulation was sold throughout North America […]