If your house was built prior to the 1980s and you have some home repairs you want to tackle, you might want to proceed with caution.
Man blames mesothelioma on protective clothing
Donald Maclachlan of Ohio has filed a lawsuit against American Optical Corp., claiming the company’s protective gear he wore for years as part of his job as a steel plant cast house helper contained asbestos and is responsible for his malignant mesothelioma.
Unsafe asbestos removal endangered low-income housing residents
Recently, a contractor in Alexandria, VA pled guilty to a violation of the Toxic Substances Control Act. The violation stemmed from asbestos removal in a low-income housing complex. Instead of hiring the proper people to remove asbestos around the windows the right way, which would have been more expensive and time-consuming, he just had his workers take the windows out intact. His thought was that this would stop them from disturbing the asbestos that was present in the windows' surroundings and sealing material, so there would not be any risk of harm. At least that was what he told the court, according to Post.
Johnson & Johnson settles 3 anti-talc cases
Johnson & Johnson, facing as many as 13,000 lawsuits that link asbestos in the company’s talc products to the development of cancer, suddenly settled three of those cases on March 27.
Are research funds for mesothelioma drying up?
Mesothelioma is diagnosed in about 3,500 Americans each year, making it one of the rarer forms of cancer. But rare or not, the amount of money funneled into cancer research by the federal government has dropped significantly in the last 20 years.
