Ministers have abandoned much-criticised payouts worth only 80 per cent of average civil claims, which were agreed in a voluntary deal struck with insurance companies. The cut was heavily criticised when the Mesothelioma Bill passed last year, when a C…
Victims of mesothelioma, a cancer often linked to asbestos, who have been unable to get compensation because they cannot trace their insurer, can now make a fresh 100% claim. The major breakthrough in the fight to get damages is a major victory for Cha…
Mr. Field produced and sold more than 400 dulcimers, Dillon said, playing some of them with groups in South Jersey and Pennsylvania. “He made dulcimers for Judy Collins, Doc Watson,” and others, some of whom “would come and play music at our home in Pi…
Mr. Field produced and sold more than 400 dulcimers, Dillon said, playing some of them with groups in South Jersey and Pennsylvania. “He made dulcimers for Judy Collins, Doc Watson,” and others, some of whom “would come and play music at our home in Pi…
AS THE general manager of the UK Asbestos Training Association , I was shocked to hear the story of a 16-year-old Plymouth girl who had to be rescued from a disused hotel in the city that was riddled with deadly asbestos spores. Although the teenager w…
A $7.5 million verdict was rendered on January 15, 2015, by a Middlesex County jury in the matter of Condon v. Advanced Thermal Hydronics, et al. , Docket No.: MID-L-5695-13AS, Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Middlesex County.
There is an urgent need for a fairer and evidence-based compensation system for those who have developed a work-related cancer. In the past decade, workplace deaths have halved in Victoria, thanks to an uncompromising approach that makes sure workplace…
Mesothelioma researchers may be able to tap into $50 million in cancer research funds from the Department of Defense later this year.
AN Andover man who raised nearly A 250,000 for the British Heart Foundation died from an asbestosrelated disease, an inquest has heard. David Windebank, of Highlands Road, died on 10 December at the age of 75 at the Countess of Brecknock Hospice from a…
The report ” Peritoneal Cancer – Pipeline Review, H1 2015 ” provides comprehensive information on the therapeutic development for peritoneal cancer . Primary peritoneal cancer is a relatively rare cancer that develops most commonly in women.
In addition to a global Phase 3 study in hepatocellular carcinoma featuring ADI-PEG 20 as a monotherapy, Polaris Group is currently conducting clinical trials on ADI-PEG 20 in combination with cisplatin in melanoma and ovarian cancer, in combination wi…
The American Board of Industrial Hygiene reminds workers and industry of the need to protect employees and the public from exposure to asbestos. published an article that reported that asbestos exposure is the single largest on-the-job killer in Canada.
Attorneys who in 2013 secured a $38 million verdict by convincing a Richland County jury that their client developed mesothelioma after years of asbestos exposure failed to convince a Greenville County jury of the same in a similar case.
In 2011, geologists at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, began discovering asbestos where none should be — in granite rocks with a geologic history not previously known to produce asbestos. The discoveries, in Clark County in southern Nevada and ac…
Asbestos Discovery Has Opponents of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Expansion Project Up In Arms