Florida Supreme Court Embraces “Consumer-Expectation” Test for Design Defect Claims
The Florida Supreme Court recently issued a significant decision that will affect all strict product liability/design defect cases litigated in Florida. In Aubin v.
Montana’s Delegation Should Oppose Asbestos Industry Bill
After spending 13 years and more than $540 million to clean up asbestos in Libby, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has declared the job finished – even though hundreds of homes and buildings in the Lincoln County hamlet remain contaminated. Acc…
Mesothelioma Victims Center Now Offers a Tailored Report of Must…
The Mesothelioma Victims Center says, “We are offering a customized tailored report of must do’s for the family of a US Navy Veteran who has been diagnosed with mesothelioma because no one else in the nation does. Please don’t shortchange yourself or y…
Deutsche Bank Initiates Coverage on Novocure
A number of other equities research analysts also recently issued reports on the stock. JMP Securities started coverage on shares of Novocure in a research report on Tuesday, October 27th.
Residents of Puerto Rico Reminded of Airborne Carcinogens during Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Zimmetry Environmental provides indoor air quality testing services to help identify known carcinogens to protect the public’s health. Although Lung Cancer Awareness Month is important for raising awareness of this disease, we all need to remain vigila…
Residents of Puerto Rico Reminded of Airborne Carcinogens during Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Zimmetry Environmental provides indoor air quality testing services to help identify known carcinogens to protect the public’s health. Although Lung Cancer Awareness Month is important for raising awareness of this disease, we all need to remain vigila…
Sheldon Silver guilty of all 7 corruption charges
Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver arrives Monday at Manhattan Federal Court, where he was found guilty on all seven corruption charges. Sheldon Silver has gone from one of Albany’s famed “three men in a room” to one of 198,000 people in federal lo…
Grandmother contracted mesothelioma through washing husband’s clothes …
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SELLAS Life Sciences Reports Positive WT1 Cancer Vaccine Clinical…
Clinically meaningful prolonged survival was demonstrated in both patient groups. A median overall survival of 52.5 months was achieved in a Phase 2 trial of the WT1 vaccine in adult patients with AML.
Asbestos cancer warrior Lou Williams tells Brisbane her life-changing story
“My first exposure with asbestos was when I was about seven and Dad built another room onto our house with this asbestos fibro sheeting,” the prominent lobbyist told a Brisbane conference last week. Last week Ms Williams announced she had gathered 5000…
Retired electrical store manager died from asbestos exposure, inquest hears
Robert William Milligan, 80, from Stuart Close North, Walton, Stone, died from mesothelioma at the Douglas Macmillan Hospice in Stoke on October 13, 2015. An inquest held in Cannock yesterday heard Mr Milligan was diagnosed with mesothelioma in Februar…
Widow’s appeal after asbestos death of father-of-six
The widow of Gerald McNeil is now appealing to his former colleagues to provide information about working conditions at two engineering companies where he worked in the 1960s. Mr McNeil, of Woodside , Wrose , Shipley , began having breathing problems l…
Targovax ASA: Interim report third quarter 2015
Merged with Finnish company Oncos Therapeutics in July, establishing a combined company with two promising technology platforms and diversified pipeline Phase II trial TG01 in pancreatic cancer and the preparation of Phase I/II trial ONCOS-102 in mesot…
NYCAL Presiding Judge Rules Manufacturer Should Have Reasonably…
On November 5, 2015, Judge Peter H. Moulton, presiding judge over the New York City Asbestos Litigation , ruled in Warren v. AmChem Products, et al. , 190281/2014, that J-M Manufacturing Company, Inc., was subject to spoliation sanctions for the destru…
Kidderminster man died of an industrial disease, coroner rules
Royston Westwood, 73, of Ox Bow Way, was exposed to asbestos during his working life, which as a result of, he developed mesothelioma. In later years, Mr Westwood’s health deteriorated and he died at the Princess of Wales Community Hospital in Bromsgro…