Blog Posts in March, 2011
Posted on Mar 31, 2011 By Bryan Fears
JM Realty Management, Inc. and its president, John McGrail, pled guilty last week to stomach-churning asbestos-related offenses: between 2005 and 2007 McGrail and a consortium of businesses he led ...
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Posted on Mar 29, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Charles Gillenwater, a former pipefitter and current mesothelioma patient, received a $90 million jury award last week in his case against four prior employers: Honeywell International Inc., Pneumo ...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Next time you visit Denver, Colorado, consider avoiding the intersection of 51 st and York streets, home of the Shingles 4 Recycling Plant. Today, a 30-foot mound of asbestos-based shingles stands in ...
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Posted on Mar 25, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Asbestos was commonly used in home and apartment construction prior to the 1980s. As a result, many apartments today still contain high levels of asbestos. Moreover, after thirty years or more of ...
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Posted on Mar 24, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Sold under the brand name Alimta, pemetrexed is a chemotherapy drug frequently used to treat patients suffering from mesothelioma. In fact, pemetrexed is the only medicine approved by the Food and ...
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Posted on Mar 22, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The horrifying disaster at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant has shown the extent to which power plant workers face the risk radiation poisoning. However, did you know that power plant workers ...
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Posted on Mar 21, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Newport News, Virginia is home to the Newport News Circuit Court and, thanks to a state court jury, also home to an asbestos victim who recently received $25 million in compensation for his ...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The vast majority of the world’s remaining, famed F-111 fighters, which hold the distinction of never being shot down by enemy fire, won’t find many permanent homes in military museums. The reason why ...
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Posted on Mar 17, 2011 By Bryan Fears
An old Phillips 66 filling station in Kilgore, Texas, has stood vacant for years for one simple reasons: the cost of asbestos abatement. Recently, a large local business, Network Communications, was ...
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Posted on Mar 15, 2011 By Bryan Fears
From 1952 to 1956, Lorillard Tobacco Co., maker of famed Kent cigarettes, “protected” smokers by providing a filter that contained asbestos. The filter may have protected smokers from tar and other ...
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Posted on Mar 14, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Scientists from Somalogic Inc. announced at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting that they had discovered new indicators—specifically, biomarkers and protein signatures—of ...
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Posted on Mar 11, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The Illinois Department of Public Health put a freeze on an entrepreneur in Galesburg, Illinois, when it affixed a large, red cease-and-desist order on the front door of the soon-to-open restaurant. ...
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Posted on Mar 10, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Asbestos litigation has plagued companies involved in heavy industry since the 1980s. Many railroad companies, however, succeeded in dodging the most costly asbestos-related litigation. Regardless of ...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Asbestos is a silent killer that causes such lethal and incurable diseases as mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis. Of course, the mere threat of asbestos-related risks can kill a real estate ...
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Posted on Mar 7, 2011 By Bryan Fears
The 2010-2011 school year has seen an uncharacteristically large number of school closings across the country. Last week, Alta Vista Middle School in Carlsbad, New Mexico, joined the swelling number ...
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Posted on Mar 4, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Hitting your thumb with a hammer may be the least of your concerns when remodeling your home this spring. If your house was built prior to the 1980s, it may contain dangerous levels of asbestos. When ...
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Posted on Mar 3, 2011 By Bryan Fears
Last week, Angel Jones, a concerned mother in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, kept her son home from school amid worries that Uniontown High School contained dangerous levels of aerosolized asbestos. In ...
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Posted on Mar 1, 2011 By Bryan Fears
America’s courthouses are more than administrative buildings. They are functioning symbols of our country’s commitment to justice and to the belief that every citizen enjoys an inherent right to life, ...
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