Edith Niedert never dreamed that the simple task of washing her husband’s work clothes would lead to being diagnosed with asbestos-related lung cancer. But 40 years of exposure to asbestos dust added up, and now she and her husband have filed suit against Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, whose gaskets and gasket materials Mr. Niedert
A lawsuit making its way through the Louisiana court system is profiling how mesothelioma and other deadly diseases can afflict people who have never personally worked with asbestos. Joyce Allen died of asbestos-related lung cancer that is being blamed on asbestos carried into her home on her husband Odell’s work clothes. Though the companies named
Ora Jean Adams was diagnosed with asbestos-related lung cancer in May of 2019 after spending years laundering her pipefitter husband’s clothing. She filed suit against Avondale Shipyards, arguing that the company had failed to provide her husband with a safe place to work and for failing to warn that exposure to asbestos could lead to
A New York judge has denied The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a man diagnosed with asbestos-related lung cancer. Though the company argued that the tiles Ferdinand Catapano worked with contained no asbestos, testimony from both the victim and a former Goodyear floor tile development contradicted this assertion,
When discussing the extreme risk of asbestos exposure, malignant mesothelioma gets the lion’s share of attention. But a just-published study by Italian researchers suggests that the rare, terminal disease is only part of the story. In looking at the number of asbestos-exposed workers who died of lung cancer and comparing it to the number of
In the United States, mesothelioma victims whose asbestos exposure occurred while doing government work can only effectively seek compensation from the suppliers of the asbestos-contaminated materials – the government is shielded from responsibility. That is not the case in other areas of the world, and last week Japan’s health ministry announced that it would be
There are many important differences between malignant mesothelioma and lung cancer, but when a patient first presents with symptoms it can be very hard to tell one from the other. This is a problem because the two diseases are very different, and time spent trying to tell exactly which disease a patient has is treatment time
When it comes to cancer treatment and outcomes, every day seems to bring new innovations and improvements. But according to a recently published study from a respected research cooperative of Spanish oncologists, patients diagnosed with malignant pleural mesothelioma continue to face steep challenges and grim overall survival times.
When mesothelioma and asbestos lung cancer victims file lawsuits against those responsible for their illness, their attorneys warn them to expect the worst from the asbestos companies and those companies’ attorneys. Just as the companies put profits over people when they exposed workers to asbestos-contaminated products, they will say and do almost anything to avoid
When researchers at the 2019 World Conference on Lung Cancer announced they’d seen positive results from a new early lung cancer detection tool, it raised the hopes of mesothelioma physicians around the world. The rare and fatal form of lung cancer caused by exposure to asbestos is notoriously difficult to treat, and one of the