Category: <span>Secondary Exposure</span>

Category: Secondary Exposure

Asbestos (general), asbestos exposure, Cancer (Non-Meso), mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, secondary, Secondary Exposure

Asbestos Warnings Issued as California Wildfires Continue to Burn

 

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department issued warnings to Altadena deputies about toxins in the air including asbestos. Deputies need to wear N95 masks to help prevent inhalation of airborne particles such as asbestos fibers.  The fire department’s hazmat team says the air in Altadena is “hazardous, containing lead, asbestos and other harmful particulates.” Many […]

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Asbestos (general), asbestos exposure, Companies, lawsuit, Legal, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, secondary, Secondary Exposure, talc, Talcum powder

Jury Awards $24.4M in Talc Case Against Avon

 

A jury has awarded the family of a Chicago area mesothelioma survivor a $24.4 million verdict. The lawsuit named Avon Products, Inc. the defendant and alleged it processed and manufactured talc products contaminated with asbestos, causing Cipriano Ramirez’s exposure.  Ramirez worked as a janitor at Avon’s manufacturing facility in Morton Grove, Illinois in the 1980s. […]

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Asbestos (general), asbestos exposure, Companies, Legal, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, Secondary Exposure, talc, Talcum powder, verdict

$30M Mesothelioma Verdict Awarded in Case Against Bridgestone

 

An Illinois jury has awarded $30 million in a mesothelioma case against tiremaker Bridgestone Firestone. Thomas Jackson was exposed to asbestos inadvertently brought home from his father’s job at one of the company’s tire manufacturing plants. Jackson died just five weeks after his mesothelioma diagnosis at 64 years old. Attorneys for Jackson’s wife, Dorothy Jackson, […]

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Asbestos (general), asbestos exposure, Companies, Legal, mesothelioma, Mesothelioma News, Secondary Exposure, talc, Talcum powder, verdict

$30M Mesothelioma Verdict Awarded in Case Against Bridgestone

 

An Illinois jury has awarded $30 million in a mesothelioma case against tiremaker Bridgestone Firestone. Thomas Jackson was exposed to asbestos inadvertently brought home from his father’s job at one of the company’s tire manufacturing plants. Jackson died just five weeks after his mesothelioma diagnosis at 64 years old. Attorneys for Jackson’s wife, Dorothy Jackson, […]

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