A Los Angeles jury awarded $9.7 million to a Georgia man who said he developed mesothelioma after he was exposed to asbestos while serving as a Navy machinist’s mate aboard the USS Preble. The plaintiff is currently a resident of Georgia, but his ship was based in Long Beach CA when he was assigned to [...]
Nearly seven years after the destruction of the World Trade Center many New Yorkers continue to suffer from mental and physical health problems. In response, the Centers for Disease Control recently announced it would contribute a grant of $30 million toward treatment for people who have experienced health problems generated by the disaster.
The collapse of [...]
For most of a century asbestos was hailed as a product that combined an efficient insulating effect, and acted as a fire retardant. That was the good news; asbestos has also long been established that exposure to asbestos and asbestos fibers can cause a number of serious respiratory ailments – the worst of which is [...]
Asbestos was a critical element of shipbuilding for many years. Mesothelioma is the lethal cancer associated with exposure to asbestos fiber – a disease than has a latency factor of 20 to 50 years. As a result, the disease has lately become an emerging factor among those who worked in and around ships during the [...]
