• posted: Sep. 16, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• Dixie Machine & Welding Company,  mesothelioma claim,  Raymond Hutchins Jr.

The family of the late Raymond Hutchins, Jr. filed suit claiming his work for a shipbuilding company put him in close proximity to repair work conducted by Dixie Machine & Read More

• posted: Sep. 02, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• 2021-22 school year,  Philadelphia schools,  WHYY

As Philadelphia prepares to fully reopen its public schools for the first time in 18 months, the spotlight is again on facilities woes, reports WHYY public TV/Radio on their website. At Read More

• posted: Aug. 27, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Products liability
• talc liabilities

A committee representing talc-injury claimants asked for a restraining order forbidding J&J from carving out talc-related liabilities from the rest of the business. J&J has told personal injury lawyers it Read More

• posted: Aug. 19, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Mesothelioma,  Asbestos
• asbestos,  mesothelioma,  mesothelioma cases,  asbestos-related illness

Johnson & Johnson should pay a terminal mesothelioma patient "tens of millions" after ignoring decades of red flags about asbestos in its talc baby powder, a lawyer for the California Read More

• posted: Aug. 12, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Mesothelioma,  Asbestos
• asbestos-related diseases,  veterans

Each year, some 10,000 veterans die from asbestos-related diseases. Veterans account for nearly one-third of the mesothelioma cases diagnosed each year, especially those who served in military occupations where asbestos Read More

• posted: Aug. 06, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• Marley-Wylain Company,  Plumber Magazine,  Robert Swanson

It has been generally known that plumbers are at greater risk to contract mesothelioma because of their exposure to asbestos products. Their proximity to asbestos in cement pipes, pipe wrap Read More

• posted: Jul. 23, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Mesothelioma
• talcum powder

Although mesothelioma clinical trials have been generally unavailable to veterans through the VA in the past, this has changed in recent years. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the VA Read More

• posted: Jul. 15, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• asbestos-contaminated talc,  Old Spice,  Willie McNeal

AP News reported that a Vietnam War veteran and retired school bus driver, Willie McNeal, Jr., was awarded $4.8 million by a California Superior Court jury that determined asbestos-contaminated talc led to Read More

• posted: Jul. 08, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos-Related Illnesses,  Asbestos
• hazardous building materials

“Asbestos. The name has its origin in the Greek word for inextinguishable. A highly-effective and inexpensive fire-retardant material and thermal and acoustic insulator, asbestos was used extensively in home construction Read More

• posted: Jul. 01, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Mesothelioma,  Asbestos
• asbestos-tainted talc,  Whittaker Clark & Daniels

Whittaker Clark & Daniels Inc., talc suppliers, has reached a deal to end a California teacher’s suit alleging her mesothelioma was a result of the asbestos-tainted talc it supplied to Read More

• posted: Jun. 25, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• PD-L1,  yervoy

A combination treatment that has been called a “game changer” for mesothelioma victims in Australia has now been added to the nation’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). From next month, any Read More

• posted: Jun. 17, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Mesothelioma,  Asbestos
• International Journal of Molecular Science,  quinacrine

Quinacrine, a drug once used to treat malaria, has found to have a positive effect in treating mesothelioma. The drug researchers — who came from Penn State, Texas Tech, Keck Read More

• posted: Jun. 10, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Mesothelioma,  Asbestos
• Crane Packing Co.,  Pfaudler Co.,  Robert Mitchell

Trial lawyers secured a total $12 million verdict on behalf of an 83-year-old Korean War veteran Robert Mitchell who contracted mesothelioma after years of working with asbestos-containing packing material. Mitchell worked Read More

• posted: Jun. 01, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Mesothelioma,  Asbestos
• compensatory damages,  Oklahoma Court of Civic Appeals

OKLAHOMA CITY, May 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- An Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals has affirmed an $8 million verdict awarded to the estate of an oil field worker's stepson who Read More

• posted: May 20, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• firefighters

Firefighters are more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma than the general public, and this is a direct result of asbestos in buildings that were built Read More

• posted: May 13, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• cancer treatment,  music therapy

While the use of music therapy to aid in cancer treatment is not new, the use of this therapy in easing pain and suffering from mesothelioma and other cancers has Read More