• 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
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• 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

• posted: Nov. 11, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• cholesterol drugs,  PD-1 inhibitors

PD-1 blockers have proved to be an effective deterrent in slowing the progress of mesothelioma. In the course of studying PD-1 inhibitors, researchers in Italy and the Netherlands found that Read More

• posted: Nov. 05, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• Dale Jolly,  Duke Power Company,  South Carolina Court of Appeals

A recent ruling by the South Carolina Court of Appeals confirmed the victory of a mesothelioma victim and his wife and eased the burden of proof for future victims of Read More

• posted: Oct. 28, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• Dr. Brian Cunniff,  metastatic cancer,  University of Vermont

A promising new therapy for mesothelioma and metastatic cancer, arising from laboratory investigations at the University of Vermont (UVM), is about to enter a Phase I clinical trial. This new Read More

• posted: Oct. 22, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• asbestos trial,  Kathy Weist,  Kraft Heinz,  Metal Masters,  South Carolina

A South Carolina jury has awarded a total of $32 million at the conclusion of an asbestos trial involving secondhand exposure claims, with jurors assigning liability to both premises defendant Read More

• posted: Oct. 14, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• Alfonso Ricciola,  pain and suffering,  Senate Bill 447

The death of a California man from mesothelioma inspired the passage of Senate Bill 447 in California which overturns existing law which prohibited posthumous damages to survivors of mesothelioma victims Read More

• posted: Oct. 07, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• mesothelioma claims,  secondary asbestos exposure,  secondhand asbestos exposure

Recent decisions in a lawsuit by Patricia Ann Dumas Jackson of Louisiana, who died of malignant mesothelioma at the age of 75, highlight the dangers of secondary asbestos exposure. After Read More

• posted: Sep. 30, 2021
• Nass Cancelliere Nass
• Asbestos
• Crane Co.,  Fred Russel Stafford,  GE,  product liability,  ViacomCBS

The product liability suit was filed on behalf of Fred Russel Stafford against Crane Co., General Electric, ViacomCBS and other defendants. Mr. Stafford entered the U.S. Navy in 1948 as part Read More