Justice requires persistence and time to break down the opposition of personal interests and other objections. Battling government bureaucracies, building alliances and lobbying ministers is part of an MP’s job. This case is about working people whose voice might otherwise be ignored. I will make no apology for continuing to campaign for others who suffer from the disabling, working-class disease of asbestos and insulation materials-related injuries.
A widower from the United Kingdom has been awarded 250,000 pounds, equating to nearly US$370,000, after his wife died from the asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma. She spent years washing her husband’s asbestos laden clothes. Mr Alfred Eccles worked as a pipe fitter…
The Pennsylvania (PA) Supreme Court is today hearing what could possibly be a landmark mesothelioma case to determine whether or not Pennsylvania will adopt the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Restatement of Torts to recognize the elements of negligence in products liability cases – alleging strict liability. Pennsylvania’s laws have, so far, kept these claims separate from one another. In the Bogosh case, his estate was awarded damages after he died of the disease mesothelioma which is caused by insulation materials and asbestos exposure. The defendant in this case was a descendant…
An insulation and asbestos materials lawsuit drawing to an end has accused the owner of ships where the late husband of the plaintiff worked of being negligent, and wrongfully causing his death. The lawsuit was filed against Exxon, who owned a number of the ships where the…