Blog Posts in August, 2011
Posted on Aug 30, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) broke with tradition this week, commenting on its ongoing investigation of Buffalo's Kensington Heights housing complex. According to the EPA, although ...
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Posted on Aug 29, 2011 By Bryan Fears
A study by the Fox Chase Cancer Center and published in Nature Genetics reveals important, new findings about role of genetics in the incidence of mesothelioma and other asbestos-based diseases. The ...
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Posted on Aug 26, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released this week a toxicology study particularly detailing the dangers associated with the W.R. Grace asbestos mine in Libby, Montana, responsible for ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2011 By Bryan Fears
A roof collapse in Plattsburgh, New York, trapped a construction worker, injuring the man and requiring him to be rushed to the hospital once rescue personnel were finally able to pull him from the ...
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Posted on Aug 23, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Recent reports from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reveal an alarming finding: the Department of the Interior, the federal agency responsible for providing safe schools for Native American ...
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Posted on Aug 22, 2011 By Bryan Fears
There isn't one reason to speak to a Fears | Nachawati asbestos litigation specialist, there are millions of them. Asbestos, the naturally occurring, cancer-causing mineral used to make a wide variety ...
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Posted on Aug 19, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Frank Bender, professional photographer-turned-forensic sculptor, was a master at sculpting the heads of unidentified murder victims and fugitives from justice. Mr. Bender sought to-and succeeded ...
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Posted on Aug 18, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The British government announced recently that it would not move forward with a proposed £400,000,000 fund that would have provided compensation to asbestos victims who were unable to prove the source ...
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Posted on Aug 16, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Most of the time, local, state, and federal agencies work together to accomplish public goals. In Buffalo, New York, however, the U.S. Attorney's Office has launched a no-holds-barred investigation ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2011 By Bryan Fears
According to an investigation and report by Wisconsin Department of Commerce, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) violated state law when it ordered workers to remove asbestos from a ...
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Posted on Aug 12, 2011 By Bryan Fears
James Lee Purks, an asbestos victim who worked as a pipefitter for Texaco for 27 years, may have passed away, but his fight for justice lives on thanks to the creative legal strategy employed by his ...
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Posted on Aug 11, 2011 By Bryan Fears
When the road to justice becomes longer than you expected, it's nice to have an attorney who is willing and able to keep walking it with you. For an asbestos victim in Illinois, that's what he's got ...
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Posted on Aug 9, 2011 By Bryan Fears
As previously discussed on this blog, in recent months several large insurance companies, most notably Hartford Financial Services and American International Group, Inc. (AIG), have increased their ...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Last week, federal investigators brought asbestos-related criminal charges against building inspectors from the City of Buffalo and an employee from the New York Department of Labor. The charges, ...
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Posted on Aug 5, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The Paragould School District in Arkansas has asbestos in every building. For years, the district has been gradually conducting asbestos remediation. The school district ensures that every school ...
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Posted on Aug 4, 2011 By Bryan Fears
A storm in Belen, New Mexico, tore through the Belen Municipal Court Building this week, caving in ceiling tiles, covering floors with water, and ruining the carpet. The storm not only uncovered ...
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Posted on Aug 2, 2011 By Bryan Fears
CSX Transportation, the east-of-the-Mississippi railroad that owns more than 21,000 miles of rails, has initiated counter lawsuits against the law firms that organized thousands of railroad workers in ...
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Posted on Aug 1, 2011 By Bryan Fears
New cases of asbestos-related diseases declined at an average annual rate of 1.8 percent between 1998 and 2008, according to the American Cancer Society. Large insurance companies have likewise ...
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