A factory where 200 people worked was yesterday branded a "Jekyll and Hyde operation" for endangering the lives of employees by ignoring pleas to remove potentially-lethal asbestos.
Egg carton manufacturer Omni Pac UK , which was shut down in 2003, was ordered to pay £136,000 at Norwich Crown Court after it admitted breaching two counts of health and safety policy.
The High Court has ordered a retrial for a former asbestos miner, who is attempting to sue CSR and Midalco for allegedly giving him asbestosis and depression through negligence.
Arturo Della Maddalena, worked for CSR and Midalco at the asbestos mine and mill in Wittenoom in north-western Western Australia for a total of three and a half years from 1961 to 1966.
AMARILLO, Texas - A federal judge this month granted a motion to dismiss Taser International Inc. from a civil lawsuit filed against it by the widow of a man who died after Amarillo police used a Taser to subdue him in 2003.
U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson on Jan. 5 dismissed the company from the wrongful death suit filed by Georgia Ann Nowell against Taser International Inc., the city of Amarillo and two Amarillo police officers because she failed to respond to Taser's motion to dismiss the company from the suit and an amended complaint failed to support her claims against the company, documents show.
CHARLESTON - A former railroad worker and his wife have filed a lawsuit claiming he was exposed to asbestos during his nearly 40 years on the job.
Thomas Jackson Black and Patricia A. Black filed the suit Jan. 12 in Kanawha Circuit Court.
In the suit, filed by Charleston attorney James A. McKowen of James F. Humphreys & Associates, Black says he worked for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, which later became part of CSX Transportation Inc., from 1951 to 1960 and from 1967 to 1995.
USG Corp. said Monday it expects to emerge from 4 1/2 years in bankruptcy sometime this summer after the world's largest manufacturer of wallboard agreed to settle its asbestos-related lawsuits.
The Chicago-based company's stock leapt $15.59, or 19.5 percent, to $95.44 in afternoon trading Monday on the New York Stock Exchange -- its highest level since the early 1990s. The stock traded around $4 in June 2001, when heavy asbestos litigation costs forced USG into Chapter 11.
The agreement calls for USG to pay $900 million in cash into a new trust to handle present and future asbestos personal-injury claims.
Doug Satterfield wants to keep fighting for his daughter, the late Amanda Satterfield, who died as a result of an asbestos-related disease.
Doug Satterfield appeared in Blount County Circuit Court Monday along with family and friends for a hearing in which ALCOA Inc. sought dismissal of her lawsuit against the company.
Doug Satterfield's exposure to asbestos dust as a company employee and, later, his daughter's exposure to it, resulted in her death, according to a suit filed by Amanda Satterfield two years ago.
Maryville man sues Alcoa, Inc.; alleges company caused daughter's death
A Maryville man is suing the Aluminum Company of America , Alcoa, because he says the company caused his 25-year-old daughter's death.
Amanda Satterfield died of cancer one year ago.
Her father, Douglas Satterfield, has worked at Alcoa for 32 years, where he was exposed to asbestos. The lawsuit claims Amanda was also exposed because her father inadvertently brought the carcinogen home on his work clothes.
"You can't imagine what it is to lose a sister," says Amelia Satterfield.
Q. I get Social Security disability benefits due to a severe stroke five years ago that left me partially paralyzed. I just found out Social Security is going to review my case. Why?
A. Everyone who receives disability benefits must have their medical conditions reviewed from time to time. Your disability benefits will continue unless there is strong evidence that your condition has improved and that you are able to return to work.
To make a decent living, workers have often ignored personal safety
By Karen Ann Cullotta, a freelance writer and journalism teacher at Roosevelt University
Published January 29, 2006
When my father's blue Chevy station wagon entered the cul-de-sac of my childhood at the end of the day, our kitchen table was already set for supper. Stepping onto the driveway, a powdery veil of pale dust clinging to his work clothes, my father would remind me that a daughter's hug would have to wait.
Manufacturer settled with another Del. family in Sept.
By SEAN O'SULLIVAN
The News Journal
WILMINGTON -- A second Delaware family has filed suit charging that a bed designed to protect special-needs children while they slept killed one.
The lawsuit filed in federal court this week by Anna Murray of Middletown against Vail Products Inc. of Ohio mirrors a lawsuit filed last year by the Flick family of Bear. The Murray suit is at least the fifth federal wrongful-death suit that has been brought against the now-defunct company.
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