Asbestos Blog
Asbestos Trust Claims: Compensation is Available Without Filing a Lawsuit Asbestos companies and their insurers placed close to $30 Billion dollars into trust funds to pay people who were injured by asbestos. But nearly 40% of the funds have still gone unclaimed by the victims. You may be entitled to a portion of these funds. [...]Read More...
Asbestos Trust Claims: Compensation is Available Without Filing a Lawsuit Asbestos companies and their insurers placed close to $30 Billion dollars into trust funds to pay people who were injured by asbestos. But nearly 40% of the funds have still gone unclaimed by the victims. You may be entitled to a portion of these funds. [...]Read More...
Asbestos Trust Claims: Compensation is Available Without Filing a Lawsuit Asbestos companies and their insurers placed close to $30 Billion dollars into trust funds to pay people who were injured by asbestos. But nearly 40% of the funds have still gone unclaimed by the victims. You may be entitled to a portion of these funds. [...]Read More...
Asbestos Trust Claims: Compensation is Available Without Filing a Lawsuit Asbestos companies and their insurers placed close to $30 Billion dollars into trust funds to pay people who were injured by asbestos. But nearly 40% of the funds have still gone unclaimed by the victims. You may be entitled to a portion of these funds. [...]Read More...
Asbestos Trust Claims: Compensation is Available Without Filing a Lawsuit Asbestos companies and their insurers placed close to $30 Billion dollars into trust funds to pay people who were injured by asbestos. But nearly 40% of the funds have still gone unclaimed by the victims. You may be entitled to a portion of these funds. [...]Read More...
Why Do You Need an Asbestos Lawyer in Hawaii? Hawaii’s shipyards have long been a source of asbestos exposure. But the danger can linger in buildings and other workplaces as well. Family members exposed to work clothes are also at risk. Hawaii, the United State’s eighth-smallest smallest state (by land area), is the only state [...]Read More...
Until the late 1980s, San Diego had a lot of workplaces with a high risk of asbestos exposure. Studies show that workers often carried home asbestos on the clothing and exposed their families. Asbestos-related diseases like asbestosis and lung cancer can take up to five decades to appear. ! Speak with your healthcare provider about [...]Read More...
America’s Finest City and industrial asbestos use grew up at about the same time. Like most other SoCal cities, San Diego started growing in the early 1900s. That was about the same time builders started using asbestos, and the use of asbestos fibers to weave lamp wicks and cremation shrouds impervious to fire were described [...]Read More...
Asbestos debris is hazardous to health. Research into safe methods of disposal is necessary to ensure public safety. Using biotechnology to develop a long-term solution to the problem of asbestos abatement. In today’s world, both the popularity of asbestos and the knowledge that it is a deadly carcinogen are no secret. The durability that made [...]Read More...
Possibly. Asbestos can cause major health problems, including cancers like mesothelioma, so many of its uses have been banned. But for many years, asbestos was used in certain styrofoam products. Most styrofoam no longer contains asbestos, but because inhaling asbestos can be so harmful to your health, when in doubt, avoid contact with older styrofoam [...]Read More...
Nellie Kershaw is arguably the most important figure in asbestos history – the first ever recorded victim of asbestos, whose diagnosis was confirmed by medical professionals as being due to asbestos exposure. She sought compensation from her employers yet was denied any support. Nevertheless, her condition and death led to the first ever asbestos industry [...]Read More...
For around 100 years, Turner & Newall was one of the key players in the asbestos industry. In the years before asbestos was found to be dangerous to human health, many companies incorporated it into their manufacturing, but not all ceased to use it once its hazards became known. These infamous companies brazenly covered up [...]Read More...