Mesothelioma Lawyer

Cleveland-Cliffs has plans to study the incidence of mesothelioma in taconite miners at its facilities located in Babbitt and Silver Bay, back when they were owned by Reserve Mining in the 1950s. The Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency along with the University of Minnesota chose not to participate in these […]

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In the United Kingdom, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced that a settlement had been reached with a lady that has mesothelioma. The victim, Debbie Brewer, had a father that worked at the Devonport Dockyard when she was a child. The MoD owned the dockyards at the time. Brewer and the MoD have accepted that […]

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Asbestos is a fibrous mineral that has been used as insulation and as a fire retardant in a wide variety of products. Because it has a durable, fibrous nature, asbestos produces dust that when inhaled, can become deposited in the lungs – causing or contributing to the development of illnesses including asbestosis (scarring of the […]

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A long battle for inclusion of the palliative drug Alimta in the Australia government’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), fought by many plagued with the terminal asbestos-related cancer mesothelioma, may soon come to an end. As reported by The Sydney Morning Herald on November 8th, Bernie Banton, a long-standing campaigner battling mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure, […]

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Discovery of an asbestos-wrapped pipe in Newton North High School, a Boston-area school, has halted construction. Workers discovered the pipe in the ground while they were working to remove asbestos-coated floor tiles that had been buried. The workers felt it might have been coated in asbestos and so sent the pipe off to a lab for […]

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