In October, Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy, a longtime smoker, filed a lawsuit for lung cancer she has medical evidence to show was caused by exposure to asbestos when she was a teen and young adult. She was primarily exposed while doing laundry for her father and...
Month: January 2014
Negligent asbestos abatement ends $80-million development in KC
When a developer proposed replacing seven city-blocks’ worth of rundown homes in the southern part of Kansas City with an $80-million retail project to be called Citadel Plaza, officials in our neighboring state were enthusiastic. The thrilling prospect of...
Washington mesothelioma victim’s verdict stripped for bad judging
In 2006, a long-term employee of the Crown-Zellerbach paper mill in Washington state was diagnosed with pleural malignant epithelial mesothelioma. As our readers are aware, mesothelioma is a rare but deadly cancer known to be caused by exposure to airborne asbestos...
High school gym closes doors due to asbestos
While the following story did not occur here in Illinois, it is indicative of what could happen anywhere in the country. A high school gym in Hartford is undergoing a renovation project and, while the project was underway, it was discovered that the gym had asbestos...
Man says dad’s mesothelioma came from work, neighborhood asbestos
As we discussed last month, the devastating effects of asbestos exposure on Americans was in no way limited to people who worked for the companies producing it or in high-risk occupations. All too often, asbestos was spread around the environment in the form of cheap,...
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