Mesothelioma Blog

  • Despite Asbestos Company’s Objection, $10.4 Million Mesothelioma Award is Upheld

    Is $10.4 million in damages unreasonable when it’s paid to two daughters who’ve lost their father to malignant mesothelioma? That’s the question that a Louisiana appeals court had to decide recently. A jury hearing a claim against Union Carbide Corporation awarded David Strauder Jr.’s daughters $4.85 million in survival damages, judicial interest dating back to …Read More

  • 3M, Dow, GE, and MetLife Face Claims from Two North Carolina Mesothelioma Victims

    Some of the world’s biggest and best-known companies are facing litigation from two separate North Carolina families affected by malignant mesothelioma. August Adams and his wife Diane have asked the court to let them consolidate their claim with a claim filed by the widow of Clarence Greene in order to save time, money, and stress …Read More

  • Juries Must Decide Whether Boiler Manufacturer Deserves Punitive Damages in Mesothelioma Claims

    A diagnosis with malignant mesothelioma represents the first in a  series of unhappy discoveries. Victims are quickly told that their illness is both painful and fatal. They also learn that their condition could have been prevented had manufacturers of equipment they worked with or around provided warnings about or protections from the asbestos hidden within. …Read More

  • 3M Required to Pay Mesothelioma Victim’s Court Fees

    Mesothelioma lawsuits can take years to pursue, and often present a rollercoaster of wins, losses, and draws. While victims are simply seeking justice, asbestos companies do everything in their power to stall and stand in the way in order to keep from having to pay. In a recent example, the legal action that 3M Company’s …Read More

  • Talc Company to Pay $29 Million to 35-Year-Old Mesothelioma Victim

    It took a South Carolina jury just four hours to agree that talc supplier Whittaker Clark & Daniels should pay a 35-year-old mesothelioma victim and her husband $29 million in damages. After four weeks of evidence of the company supplying asbestos-contaminated talc to Mary Kay cosmetics, the group was convinced of the company’s negligence, and …Read More

  • Court Revives Mesothelioma Claim Against Avon

    When Alicia Ramirez and her husband Fermin first filed a mesothelioma lawsuit against Avon Products, the company successfully had the case against them dismissed. Rather than giving up, the couple doubled down and appealed the court’s decision. After close examination, the California Court of Appeal for the Second District reversed the lower court’s decision and …Read More

  • University of Pittsburgh’s Effort to Stop Engineer’s Mesothelioma Claim Fails

    The quest for justice following a diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma is always a challenge, but this can be especially true when the entity blamed for asbestos exposure is an employer. Though these cases can be difficult due to Workers Compensation laws, a case heard recently by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court saw the family of an …Read More

  • Mesothelioma Victim Takes Action to Reverse Georgia Pacific Bankruptcy Move

    In recent years, asbestos companies have added insult to injury by trying to evade mesothelioma victims’ personal injury claims through a complex bankruptcy maneuver known as a “Texas Two-Step.”  After a recent attempt by Johnson & Johnson was rejected by the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, a man who blames Georgia-Pacific for his asbestos-related …Read More

  • Judge in New York Mesothelioma Case Clarifies Role of Punitive Damages

    When a loved one dies of malignant mesothelioma, it is natural for those left behind to seek justice from those who exposed them to the asbestos that led to their disease. This is especially true if the entity at fault was aware of asbestos’ dangers, as happened in a case recently heard in New York: …Read More

  • Following $36.5 Million Verdict, Asbestos Victim Pursues Further Legal Action

    Delaying legal proceedings is a strategy that’s frequently used by asbestos companies facing mesothelioma litigation. The tactic takes advantage of the physical, emotional, and financial toll that asbestos-related diseases take on victims, pushing them to accept settlements that are lower than what they would likely be awarded in court. Knowing this, an asbestos victim who …Read More

  • Mesothelioma Victim Points to Asbestos Exposure While Working as School Engineer

    The Supreme Court of New York recently denied the arguments of an asbestos manufacturer that was attempting to evade responsibility for a man’s death from malignant mesothelioma. The court wrote that pump manufacturer Milton Roy was attempting “to circumvent the standards of summary judgment” by offering testimony from a person with no knowledge of the …Read More

  • Judge Cites Insufficiency of Porsche’s Argument in Allowing Asbestos Case to Proceed

    Diseases like malignant mesothelioma and asbestosis are frequently the result of workplace exposure to asbestos. Following her husband’s death from asbestos-related lung cancer, Susan Carboni pursued legal action against the companies she blames for exposing him to asbestos-contaminated materials, including Porsche Cars, North America. Though the company argued that it should be dismissed from the …Read More

  • 81-Year-Old Mesothelioma Victim Awarded $23 Million

    James McWilliams has little doubt about how he came to have malignant pleural mesothelioma. After a lifetime of work as a steamfitter, he blames asbestos in Jenkins Bros. valves for his illness and sued the company for the damages that he suffered. Earlier this year a New York City jury awarded him $23 million in …Read More

  • Philadelphia Jury Awards Asbestos Victim $25 Million in Damages

    Richard Daciw’s personal injury lawsuit originally listed over 50 different manufacturers, suppliers, and others that he accused of negligence in having exposed him to the deadly carcinogen asbestos. The mineral, which is the cause of malignant mesothelioma, can also lead to serious illnesses including lung cancer and asbestosis, with the latter being the illness that …Read More

  • Deficiencies in Mesothelioma Victim’s Testimony Not Enough to Have Case Dismissed

    Facing a personal injury lawsuit filed by a Navy veteran diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma, pump manufacturer Armstrong Pumps attempted to have the case against them dismissed. Though the company argued that there were gaps in his testimony that warranted them evading judgment, the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division denied their motion and the case …Read More

  • Court Overturns Dismissal of Mesothelioma Widow’s Claim Against Dairy Farm

    Four years after her husband’s death from malignant mesothelioma, Pamela Shellenberger won a significant jury against the dairy farm that she holds responsible for his illness and death. Though her original personal injury claim against Kreider Dairy Farms was dismissed by the Philadelphia Common Pleas court, she appealed that decision and the Superior Court of …Read More

  • Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma, and Other Asbestos Diseases Linked to Goodyear Floor Tiles

    Though the name Goodyear is most frequently associated with tires, the company was also a major supplier of floor tiles in the 1970s and years previous to that, and as a result they’re frequently named in mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis lawsuits. That’s because many of those tiles were contaminated with asbestos. In a recent …Read More

  • Washington Court of Appeals Upholds $17 Million Mesothelioma Judgment

    In 2021, The widow of Kevan Holdsworth was awarded nearly $17 million by the Washington state jury hearing her mesothelioma claim. Sherrie Holdsworth and her late husband had sued Scapa Waycross, manufacturers of asbestos-contaminated dryer felts used by the paper mill where he’d worked for almost forty years. Throughout the trial, the asbestos company argued …Read More

  • Avon Ordered to Pay Mesothelioma Victim $52.1 Million

    A California jury has ordered the iconic cosmetic company Avon and another defendant to pay $52.1 million in damages to a 76-year-old woman and her husband as compensation for causing her malignant mesothelioma. The woman had claimed that Avon’s talc-based products were contaminated with asbestos, and after weighing the testimony in the case, the jury …Read More

  • Facing Mesothelioma Claims, Johnson & Johnson Files Suit Against Talc Expert

    In the face of tens of thousands of personal injury claims filed by malignant mesothelioma and ovarian cancer victims, Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary LTL Management has filed a disparagement claim against the author of a frequently cited article. Dr. Jacqueline Moline published the work titled Mesothelioma Associated with the Use of Cosmetic Talc in 2019. …Read More