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• Asbestos Worker Never Given Respirator
  Apr-28-11 Lebanon, OR "My doctor says it's a miracle I'm still alive," says 65-year-old John B., who worked for Certainteed Pipe Products in his early twenties. "I worked with concrete pipe made with asbestos and never even heard of respirators—we just wore little paper masks." John continued to work, hauling oil and different products for a tanker com...
• Certainteed Organic Roofing Shingles Class Action Reaches Potential Settlement
  CertainTeed Corporation and Counsel for the Plaintiffs in In re: CertainTeed Corporation Roofing Shingles Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1817 (E.D. Pa), announced today that they have entered into an agreement to settle a class action alleging that organic asphalt shingles manufactured by CertainTeed from July 1, 1987 through 2005 are subject...
• Plaintiff Awarded More Than $200 Million in Asbestos Lawsuit
  May-12-10 Los Angeles, CA In a case of second-hand asbestos exposure , Rhoda Evans developed mesothelioma after years of washing her husband's work clothes, which he unknowingly brought home covered in asbestos fibers. In late April 2010 the Central District Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded Evans a whopping $208.8 million in a lawsuit claiming negligent a...
• Mesothelioma Verdict Goes to the Defense
  Dec-15-09 Baltimore, MD Most, but not all, asbestos mesothelioma lawsuits end with a verdict that favors the plaintiff. Sometimes the jury produces a decision that favors the defendant—as happened recently in Baltimore. The case involved Manuel Gonzalez, a 55-year-old resident of Hyattsville, who was diagnosed with asbestos mesothelioma in November of 2...
• CertainTeed Reaches Preliminary $400M to $600M Settlement in Defective Shingles Class Action
  Minneapolis, MN: A nationwide class action settlement received preliminary approval by Judge Louis Pollak, US District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to make payments to tens of thousands of homeowners across the U.S. and Canada whose roofs have been adversely affected by defective organic shingles manufactured by CertainTeed Corpor...
• Jury Awards California Asbestos Meosthelioma Case $200 Million in Damages
  Los Angeles, CA: A jury in California awarded $200 million in punitive damages and $8.8 million in compensatory damages in an asbestos product liability lawsuit being heard last week. However, there is a possibility the amounts will be reduced. The plaintiffs case alleged that Rhoda Evans developed mesothelioma as a result of 'take home' or secondar...
• $55M Settlement Reached in Drywall Antitrust MDL
  Harrisburg, PA: A$55 million settlement has been reached in a drywall antitrust multi district litigation (MDL) alleging price-fixing among companies that make gypsum board, commonly called drywall, sheetrock or plasterboard. Preliminary approval was granted by US District Senior Judge Michael M aylson of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. H...
• Construction Worker Settles Asbestos Lawsuit for $7.5M
  Los Angeles, CA: A construction worker who developed a highly aggressive cancer after his exposure to asbestos, has resolved his asbestos lawsuit against the defendant companies for $7.5 million prior to trial. The plaintiff brought suit against several of the companies that manufactured the materials. The defendants severally denied liability. ...
• Asbestos Mesothelioma Victim Wins Appeal of $20 Million Asbestos Cancer Verdict
  San Francisco, CA : An appellate court has upheld a $20 million dollar asbestos cancer verdict this week, in an asbestos cancer lawsuit brought on behalf of mesothelioma patient Joan Mahoney and husband Daniel Mahoney. The lawyers who represented the Mahoneys proved that Mrs. Mahoney's mesothelioma was linked to her exposure to an asbestos-containing...
• Union Carbide Corp. et al. Asbestos Exposure Death Settlement
  San Francisco, CA: (May-04-07) The family of Charlie Piazza of Santa Clara filed a lawsuit against Union Carbide Corp., Georgia-Pacific Corp., Kelly-Moore Paint Co. Inc., Hamilton Materials Inc., Kaiser Gypsum Co. Inc., and CertainTeed Corp. alleging that Piazza was exposed to asbestos products manufactured by the six defendants and died due to the prolonged...
• Asbestos Mesothelioma Victims Stymied by Bestwall LLC Bankruptcy
  Dec-27-22 Richmond, VA On December 6, asbestos mesothelioma claimants asked a Fourth Circuit panel for permission to pursue their claims against Georgia-Pacific, the corporate parent of Bestwall LLC, which has filed for Chapter11 bankruptcy protection. The fundamental question in Bestwall LLC et al. v. Official Committee of Asbestos Claimants is whether the comp...
• Mesothelioma Victim Awarded $8.75 Million Has Only Months to Live
  Aug-21-16 Beaverton, OR: He’s 65, a father, a grandfather and a few years into his retirement, looking toward his twilight years that statistically should number about 17. That translates into a life expectancy that would take him into his early eighties. But it has not worked out that way for David Hoff, a resident of Beaverton, Oregon. Hoff is living with a...
• Asbestos Mesothelioma: Family Sues 33 Companies on Behalf of Deceased Father
  May-30-09 Beaumont, TX The family of Lawrence Baggett have had enough. Having watched as their father died a painful death from asbestos mesothelioma , and faced the emotional and financial outcome of his illness, they filed a lawsuit alleging their father was not warned adequately about working around asbestos. Larry worked around asbestos most of his life. He...