Last year, after Donald G. Ream was diagnosed with lung cancer, he sought to hold responsible the companies he believes caused his deadly disease. In October, he and his wife, Joanne Ream, filed a lawsuit in St. Clair County Circuit Court in Illinois against AGCO Corp., Buffalo Air Handling, URS Corporation, and several others for negligently exposing him to cancer-causing asbestos as he was working as a mechanic. The Reams claim the companies failed to adequately warn workers or give them instructions about how to safely work with or around asbestos-containing products. (more…)

James LaFrentz worked as an aircraft mechanic for 40 years, ever since he graduated from high school in 1963. When he was diagnosed with asbestos-related malignant mesothelioma, he filed a lawsuit against companies that manufactured, sold, distributed, or installed materials that contained asbestos. LaFrentz’s wife Ila is also named in the lawsuit, which was filed in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas. (more…)

“It’s the American dream interrupted,” says the attorney representing a man whose wife and law partner died from a rare form of cancer he claims was caused by exposure to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder. (more…)

When Wanda Quisenberry was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by asbestos exposure, she sued several companies she claimed exposed her to the cancer-causing mineral, including Huntington Ingalls Inc., a company that employed her father. (more…)

Attorneys for Rosalind and Frederick Henry asked a New Jersey jury during closing arguments in the latest talc trial to hold Johnson & Johnson responsible for marketing asbestos-laced talcum powder to consumers, which allegedly caused Mrs. Henry’s mesothelioma diagnosis, Law360 reported. (more…)

Louis Summerlin was in severe pain in the months leading up to his lung cancer death. His wife, Joanna, suing on behalf of her late husband, believes R.J. Reynolds, Phillip Morris, and Hampden Automotive owe her $27 million for exposing her husband to cancer-causing asbestos in their cigarettes and brakes. (more…)

During Frank Bentz’s career throughout the 1970s, he was exposed at various times to cancer-causing asbestos in the products he worked with, which contributed to his lung cancer diagnosis in October 2016, and his death Nov. 25, 2016. Now his widow, Linda Bettz, is fighting for justice. (more…)

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. must reveal lists of smokers and employees who sued Lorillard Inc., over claims involving its asbestos-containing filters. Reynolds purchased Lorillard in July 2015. (more…)

A former tenant of the Commons at Sylvan Highlands in Oregon filed a class action lawsuit against her former landlord alleging management knowingly exposed tenants and workers to asbestos during renovations at the apartment complex. The lawsuit comes four days after two former employees filed a $40 million lawsuit against the complex’s management company claiming they were fired for bringing asbestos concerns to the attention of management. (more…)

An Oregon couple has filed a $10 million lawsuit against a Portland property management company alleging the company put workers and residents at risk for asbestos exposure during a building renovation. (more…)