Mark Aldridge and Maria Manchisi paid nearly $3 million for their luxury Upper East Side condominium at Carnegie Park only to learn that their home contained cancer causing asbestos. Now they and four other residents of the doorman building are suing the developer, the Related Companies, alleging the company “knew they were selling apartments with asbestos-containing materials,” but did not warn homebuyers. (more…)

Months before Louis Summerlin died at the age of 73 from lung cancer, he and his wife Joanna filed a lawsuit against the makers of the cigarettes he used to smoke as well as the auto parts company where he worked, Law360 reports. The Summerlins claim that the companies are to blame for his terminal diagnosis, and the least they could have done was warn him of the risks. (more…)

An Illinois veteran who developed a type of lung cancer caused by asbestos exposure is suing several companies claiming their asbestos-containing products caused his terminal illness.

Thomas D. Griffith filed his complaint July 27 in St. Clair County Circuit Court in Belleville, Illinois. He claims companies like Dow Chemical Company, Crane Company, BMW Constructors and several others were negligent in failing to warn people who worked with their products that the products contained a carcinogenic mineral that could make them ill. (more…)

On the fifth day of trial in a case brought by plaintiff Carolyn Weirick accusing Johnson & Johnson of knowingly selling talcum powder products that contained asbestos and contributed to her terminal cancer, Weirick’s attorneys called materials science and electron microscopy expert William Longo to the stand. He told a California jury that he examined a sample of talc taken from a bottle of Johnson’s Baby Powder used by Carolyn Weirick and found asbestos fibers. (more…)

An Illinois man is suing several manufacturers for exposing him to the known carcinogen asbestos, which he says contributed to his lung cancer diagnosis earlier this year.

Benton Street III filed a complaint on July 19 in St. Clair County Circuit Court in Belleville, Illinois, against a long list of asbestos-containing product manufacturers including Buffalo Air Handling and Semens Industry. He claims that the companies knew asbestos was toxic to humans but failed to adequately warn him of the serious risks associated with working around and handling asbestos and asbestos-containing products. (more…)

Chevron USA, ExxonMobil, Texaco, and nine other companies have been hit with a lawsuit by a man who claims that asbestos-contaminated products made and sold by the companies contributed to his asbestos cancer.

Michael Haynes filed the lawsuit in Jefferson County District Court in Beaumont, Texas. The lawsuit also names Atlantic Richfield, Huntsman, and Total. Haynes was diagnosed with asbestos-related lung cancer in 2017. (more…)

In opening arguments in the latest trial alleging Johnson & Johnson’s talc-containing products caused cancer, the plaintiff’s attorneys argued that Johnson’s Baby Powder was laced with asbestos fibers and contributed to a woman’s deadly cancer. But attorneys for the consumer health care giant said the talcum powder did not make the woman sick, arguing that sometimes, “cancer just happens.” (more…)

BP Products North America Inc., Chevron USA, and several other companies are being sued by an Illinois couple over claims the companies failed to warn about the risks of asbestos exposure.

Robert and Yvonn Fulton filed the lawsuit July 10 in St. Clair County Circuit Court in Illinois, alleging the companies’ were negligent in manufacturing products that contained asbestos fibers, which Robert worked with throughout his career. He claims his exposure to the asbestos in the products contributed to his lung cancer. (more…)

Leonard and Cheryl Brown are suing several product manufacturers accusing the companies of failing to warn of the dangers of asbestos exposure. The lawsuit was filed in the St. Clair County Circuit Court in Illinois. Defendants named in the lawsuit include Aurora Pumps, Walmart, and Champaign A&K Insulation Company.

According to the complaint, Leonard Brown inhaled or ingested asbestos fibers from certain products while working in various jobs from 1974 though 2018. In 2017, he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He blames the companies for intentionally using asbestos-containing products despite knowing the serious health risks they posed. (more…)

When Adrienne Sweeney’s husband Bill would return home from work from the boiler-making factory, U.K.-based Babcock & Wilcox, where he was employed through the 1960s and 1970s, he would give her a big hug before removing his dusty overalls. She would then take his clothes and shake them off out the back door to remove the dust before washing them. Years later, Babcock & Wilcox began laundering the overalls in-house. But the damage had already been done. (more…)