• posted: Apr. 16, 2024
• Nass Cancelliere
• Asbestos-Related Illnesses,  Asbestos

EPA’s ban is the first rule to be finalized under new Toxic Substance Control Act process, marking historic milestone for nation’s chemical safety efforts WASHINGTON –Tthe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Read More

• posted: Apr. 14, 2022
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• Asbestos

A New Jersey bankruptcy judge recently ruled that the ongoing Chapter 11 case in which Johnson & Johnson seeks to avoid personal injury liability by creating a separate subsidiary should Read More

• posted: Apr. 07, 2022
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos

Shelley Droz alleged that her husband, Eric Droz, used an arc grinding machine to resurface brake drum shoes that contained asbestos. She claimed the arc grinder manufacturer, Hennessy, knew that Read More

• posted: Mar. 10, 2022
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos

A report in the Philadelphia Inquirer revealed that “More than 50 years ago, nearly a dozen men incarcerated in Philadelphia enrolled in an experiment funded by Johnson & Johnson, according Read More

• posted: Mar. 07, 2022
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos

As reported in Reuters news service, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) can use the bankruptcy system to resolve multibillion-dollar litigation claiming its talc products cause cancer, a U.S. judge ruled on Read More

• posted: Feb. 24, 2022
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• Asbestos

A Cascade County, Montana jury delivered a $36.5 million verdict on Thursday, after it determined the insurance carrier wasn’t protected by the W. R. Grace bankruptcy in Libby, Montana more Read More

• posted: Feb. 11, 2022
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• Asbestos

Lawmakers criticized Johnson & Johnson’s use of a Texas statute and the bankruptcy code to resolve thousands of lawsuits alleging the company’s talcum powder products gave women cancer, with some Read More

• posted: Feb. 03, 2022
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos

Image-guided tumor ablation is a minimally invasive, image-guided therapy used to treat tumors from liver cancer, kidney cancer, lung cancer, and bone cancer. Image-guided ablation may also be used to Read More

• posted: Jan. 28, 2022
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos

Owens-Illinois Glass announced that its subsidiary, Paddock Enterprises, LLC, has reached a tentative agreement for a Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization that will establish an asbestos bankruptcy trust with $610 Read More

• posted: Jan. 21, 2022
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos

The U.S. Social Security Administration already covers both pleural mesothelioma and peritoneal mesothelioma, more common forms of the cancer, as part of the Compassionate Allowances program for years, but pericardial Read More

• posted: Jan. 13, 2022
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• Asbestos

According to the results published in the journal Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, the mesothelioma patients those who had less invasive extrapleural pneumonectomy had a longer survival rate than Read More

• posted: Jan. 07, 2022
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Mesothelioma,  Asbestos
• high-risk occupations

Most of us think of industrial and heavy industry jobs when we think of workers exposed to asbestos. However, a  study conducted by Italian researchers has found that the deadly Read More

• posted: Dec. 16, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• Supreme Court,  talc-based products,  U.S. Food and Drug Administration

According to a report in Reuters, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, December 13 declined to hear a bid by Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) to throw out a lawsuit brought Read More

• posted: Dec. 09, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• Clean Air Act,  Kristofer Landell,  New York State Department of Labor,  Stephanie Laskin

Stephanie Laskin and Kristofer Landell were convicted of conspiring to violate Clean Air Act regulations regarding the safe removal, handling, and disposal of the carcinogenic material at a Kingston, New Read More

• posted: Dec. 03, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• asbestos exposure,  lung cancer,  mesothelioma victims

A study by Italian researchers suggests that mesothelioma ––the rare, terminal disease –– is only part of the story. In looking at the number of asbestos-exposed workers who died of Read More

• posted: Nov. 19, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• Cook County,  Cynthia Cowger,  mesothelioma diagnosis,  Qualitex Co.

A Cook County, Illinois jury recently awarded $23 million to a woman who developed lung cancer after handling asbestos-containing materials while working for the Chicago manufacturer Qualitex Co. The jury Read More