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	Lawyers911: ASBESTOS LAWYER: Mesothelioma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Asbestos fibers are commonly mixed during processing with a material which binds them together so that they can be used in many different products.
		Over a long period of time (the latency period is 10 to 30 or more years), microscopic asbestos fibers that are retained in the lung tissue can cause scarring to occur in the alveoli; the tiny balloon-like structures in the lungs where oxygen is distributed to the blood vessels.
		An Asbestos Lawyer brings a compensation claim alleging the loss of life was the result of negligence.
	www.lawyers911.com /mesothelioma.htm (743 words)

	American Lawyer Media's Law.com
		"[Asbestos is] a symbol of the failure of the civil justice system," says Benjamin Heineman Jr., the general counsel of General Electric Co. and a key backer of the asbestos trust fund.
		Taking asbestos cases out of the courts, they say, doesn't mean Congress will be called upon every time a drug turns out to have dangerous side effects or the trial lawyers target another deep-pocketed industry.
		A year ago a trust fund to end all asbestos litigation was the impossible dream of a few strategic thinkers on the defense side.
	www.law.com /special/supplement/future_lit/change_of_venue.shtml (2635 words)

	The Law Firm That Asbestos Built
		Litigation involving individual victims versus the asbestos makers as well as litigation among the manufacturers themselves and between the manufacturers and their insurers is expected to remain unresolved for years.
		The asbestos industry wants legislation creating a trust fund, with 50 percent of the fund’s contributions coming from asbestos companies and their insurers and the remainder from the federal government–whose shipyard activities during World War II were responsible for about half of the asbestos exposures.
		The asbestos industry has been exceedingly careful to date to keep its campaign for federal assistance and legislative relief separate from a general victim compensation reform, concerned that by combining the two its share of aid from Washington might be reduced.
	www.aliciapatterson.org /APF0702/Stranahan/Stranahan.html (2832 words)

	The Law makes Asbestos 'Gold' for Trial Lawyers
		Asbestos litigation has pushed at least 54 companies into bankruptcy, and judgments are often imposed with little regard for proof of wrongdoing or causation.
		In February, 2,645 plaintiffs sued asbestos attorneys, claiming that "this case arises from corruption within the asbestos personal injury bar." Reports are that the majority of asbestos settlements enrich the attorneys, rather than going to the allegedly harmed individuals.
		The demonizing of asbestos is an odd fate for a substance that exists widely in nature, including the rocks supporting highly populated cities such as San Francisco.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /law/asbestos.htm (814 words)

	FACSNET Top Issues: A Primer on Asbestos
		Asbestos was long valued in construction and industry for its resilient qualities.
		Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral fiber used in industry, favored in the past because its resistance to heat and fire.
		Many of today’s plaintiffs are asymptomatic, but their lungs show exposure to asbestos in the form of “pleural plaques,” deposits of collagen fibers shown in x-rays as thickening of the lining of the lungs.
	www.facsnet.org /tools/law_gov/Asbestos_primer.php3 (1396 words)

	Asbestos, Mesothelioma, and the Law
		The primary difference is that in civil law countries, much more of the basis of the law is regulatory/from the state stemming from codification movements throughout their history.
		Common law systems have much law that is developed by local standards as interpreted by the judiciary rather than the centrally-decided tenets of the civil law countries.
		Asbestos itself is any number of minerals that are fibrous in nature and have some remarkable heat resisting qualities, which lead to asbestos' large scale usage in construction and other areas for fire retardation and similar purposes.
	asbestoslegal.blogspot.com (812 words)

	LEO 1788
		Over the past 25 years, plaintiffs represented by the Law Firms who were employees or former employees of X Corporation have settled thousands of third-party asbestos-related personal injury or death claims pursuant to the terms of the Agreement.
		In addition, since 1983, the Law Firms, with the knowledge of X Corporation, have represented eighteen family members of former employees of X Corporation who contracted disabling and/or fatal asbestos-related diseases as a consequence of household exposure to asbestos-contaminated work clothes of a spouse, parent, sibling or other immediate family member.
		It is understood and agreed that the provisions of paragraph 4 herein and the second sentence of paragraph 6 pertaining to restriction of the practice of law of plaintiffs' attorneys shall be submitted for review by appropriate ethics committee(s) of the Virginia State Bar Association [sic].
	www.vacle.org /opinions/1788.htm (3233 words)

	Law.com - Pennsylvania Court Upholds Law Limiting Asbestos Liability
		Under the law, the company must be incorporated in Pennsylvania prior to May 2001 and must show that its liabilities in asbestos lawsuits have equaled or exceeded the "fair market value" of the company whose acquisition resulted in the successor liability.
		And since the law survived the constitutional attacks of the plaintiffs' lawyers, Tereshko found that Crown Cork & Seal was entitled to summary judgment dismissal of all asbestos cases currently pending against it.
		And the protections in the law are not triggered until the successor company has spent an amount equal to the cost of the company it acquired, Tereshko said.
	www.law.com /jsp/article.jsp?id=1023826494348 (1296 words)

	Asbestos Disease: Asbestos Cancer: Mesothelioma: Legal Information
		The crystal formation of asbestos is in the form of long thin fibers.
		Asbestos was primarily used as an insulator or fire retardant, and although the federal government placed a moratorium on the production of most asbestos products in the early 1970's, use of asbestos containing products continued through into the early 1980's.
		The Law Offices of Thomas J. Lamb, P.A. handles lawsuits in which a worker or family member was injured as a result of direct or indirect asbestos exposure.
	www.lamblawoffice.com /Asbestos-information.html (165 words)

	Asbestos Attorneys - Helping Asbestos Related Injury Victims
		The spouse or children of a worker exposed to asbestos may also be suffering from asbestos disease due to exposure to dust and fibers brought into the home on work clothes.
		Because asbestos fibers are invisible, tasteless, odorless, and indestructible, many people have been - and continue to be - unknowingly exposed to this material with devastating results.
		Asbestos exposure is particularly dangerous in people who have smoked tobacco or continue to smoke.
	www.asbestosattorneys.net /diseases.html (624 words)

	Asbestos and the law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the turn of the last century, asbestos was considered an ideal building material.
		Asbestos litigation is the longest, most expensive mass tort in U.S. history, involving more than 6,000 defendants and 600,000 claimants.
		Asbestos and specifically Mesothelioma are responsible for the most expensive AdSense keywords as of 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asbestos_and_the_law (2619 words)

	Lawyers911: ASBESTOS LAWYER: What Happens Asbestos? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Asbestos fibers enter the body in the air we breathe.
		Most of the asbestos fibers we breathe - like other dust particles - are stopped long before they enter the small airways of the lungs.
		Finding enough of these asbestos bodies in lung tissue proves prior occupational exposure to asbestos, but it does not in itself prove that the person has an asbestos disease.
	www.lawyers911.com /mesothelioma_whathappens_asbestos.htm (454 words)

	Mesothelioma - cancer/asbestos exposure/asbestos disease - information. Shepard A. Hoffman-mesothelioma/asbestos lawyer ...
		The asbestos companies actively worked to conceal and hide what they knew about the dangers and health hazards from the public, their customers, the medical and scientific community, and the government.
		Serious asbestos disease, of which mesothelioma is the worst, can result in enormous medical bills, disability from work, and other losses which can cause considerable stress, anxiety and worry for persons who already have enough of that to deal with by virtue of having been diagnosed with mesothelioma.
		Asbestos cases which are filed in Federal Court are all transferred to one judge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
	www.mesotheliomainfo.com /mesothelioma-choose.htm (1653 words)

	National Plaintiff Firm \| Asbestos Mesothelioma \| Fluoride Osteosarcoma \| SJS \| Mercury Autism
		Asbestos is a deadly mineral fiber used in a number of industries.
		It has been well known for many years that asbestos exposure can result in the development of deadly cancers, particularly mesothelioma and lung cancer, yet the asbestos industry refused to provide adequate safeguards for their employees and failed to adequately warn them of its danger.
		Many thousands of people were needlessly exposed to the carcinogenic effects of asbestos and developed cancer as a result.
	www.autismlawyer.net (709 words)

	KazanLaw Mesothelioma FAQS: What is asbestos? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Asbestos is the name for a group of naturally occurring silicate minerals that can be separated into fibers.
		There are several types of asbestos fibers, of which three have been used for commercial applications: (1) Chrysotile, or white asbestos, comes mainly from Canada, and has been very widely used in the US.
		Asbestos is still a problem because a great deal of it has been used in the United States and elsewhere, because many asbestos-containing products remain in buildings, ships, industrial facilities and other environments where the fibers can become airborne, and because of the serious human health hazards of inhaling asbestos fibers.
	www.kazanlaw.com /faq/whatis.cfm (702 words)

	Asbestos removal services Cornwall devon south west uk
		As a licensed asbestos removers, we have the experience and training to ensure the required standards of safety and efficiency are maintained to the current legislation.
		Ashcroft has been involved in asbestos removal since 1975 and is a leader in the removal of asbestos in the South West of England.
		Asbestos waste, whether this is small amounts of waste or large-scale waste removed by a contractor, is subject to waste management controls set out in the Special Waste Regulations 1996.
	www.ashcroftgroup.co.uk /asbestos_removal.html (387 words)

	Tekimmo, history of the french asbestos law
		aiming at preventing dispersion in the atmosphere of asbestos fibres used before 1997 as building materials.
		This second part of the regulation evolved in the course of time : the owners's duties were initially defined by decree 96-97, then modified successively by the decrees 97-855, 2001-840 and 2002-839.
		Note: this inspection is not sufficient anymore in case of a realty sale: it must be supplemented because the most recent regulation enlarged the list of the components to be controlled.
	www.tekimmo.com /english/asbestos-law-history.htm (196 words)

	Anatomy of a Lawsuit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Many times when a lawsuit is brought against asbestos manufacturers on behalf of a person with malignant mesothelioma, as many as thirty or forty defendant manufacturers will be named.
		This is done through testimony of witnesses, both lay witnesses (yourself, depositions of co-workers who have brought lawsuits against the asbestos manufacturers, and surviving co-workers), and expert witnesses, known as state-of-the-art witnesses, who establish that the asbestos manufacturers knew of the dangers of asbestos products at the time they manufactured and distributed them.
		It is precisely because of this damaging evidence that the asbestos companies will most often settle their case prior to a trial, or, at the very least, after the damages portion of the trial.
	www.mesotheli.com /anatomy.htm (2233 words)

	Game Of the Law Of the Asbestos
		Certainly, a person who incurs the $200.000.00 medical accounts and problems in course toser and of the heart due to the asbestos has a better case and more valuable that another person that undergoes $40.000.00 in medical accounts but does not have now until any respiratory lack.
		A good lawyer knows to the law and the value of his demand of the asbestos.
		In making some changes in the apartment as well as the complex of the building, the contractor sent a great amount of asbestos in the air when he cleared tiles of the floor and I have patient of turned increase.
	asbestos.netfirms.com /asbestos-law-suit.htm (871 words)

	Asbestos Clients - Early, Ludwick, Sweeney & Strauss
		It was important to seek the legal assistance from a knowledgeable, reliable, expert firm in the asbestos litigation field.
		The Law Offices of Early, Ludwick, Sweeney and Strauss L.L.C. was that firm.
		If one were choosing legal assistance for their asbestos litigation case, I would strongly recommend that they contact the Law Offices of Early, Ludwick, Sweeney and Strauss, LLC.
	www.elslaw.com /client_amellin.htm (377 words)

	Six inspectors to police asbestos menace - National - www.smh.com.au
		Home asbestos threatens tens of thousands of Sydneysiders because unlicensed demolishers are breaking the law on asbestos removal to save money.
		The Herald has learnt of illegal operations causing asbestos dust to blow over neighbouring houses, and there are claims that some contractors are dumping asbestos in the bush, on vacant housing blocks and on competitors' demolition sites to avoid paying for proper disposal.
		Asbestos contained in fibro-cement sheeting is not dangerous if in good condition, but if it is broken, sandpapered, drilled, or cut, then one fibre can be enough to kill you years later.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/10/31/1099219992357.html?oneclick=true (703 words)

	Asbestos and Mesothelioma Attorneys in Houston, Texas - Law Offices of Herschel Hobson
		Asbestos attorneys at our Houston firm are experienced in litigating chemical exposure cases, including cases resulting in Mesothelioma.
		Asbestos attorneys at our Houston firm are experienced in litigating chemical exposure cases in Texas, including Asbestos and Mesothelioma.
		Asbestos lawyers at our Houston firm are experienced in litigating chemical exposure cases and Mesothelioma cases in Texas.
	www.hobsonlaw.com /benzene_pages/sitemap.html (569 words)

	California Mesothelioma Help Center \| San Francisco Asbestos Lawyer San Jose \| CA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Maybe you are a daughter who wants to know why her father was hurt when he worked in California and who is responsible; maybe you suffered from asbestos exposure in California, or perhaps you are a Bay Area neighbor of ours whose family member worked with asbestos and brought asbestos fibers home on their clothes.
		Mesothelioma and asbestosis are life-threatening diseases: although new treatment protocols provide hope, the median duration of survival, according to the literature, is 14 to 18 months.
		Now, our asbestos attorneys have founded a new firm so that we can provide you with the personalized attention that you deserve.
	www.htlaw.info /PracticeAreas/MesotheliomaAsbestos.asp (559 words)

	Mesothelioma Information Newsletter: Diagnosis, Research and Treatment Options
		Asbestos manufacturers knew about the hazards of asbestos seventy years ago - but they kept this knowledge to themselves.
		The first warnings to workers exposed to asbestos were given in the mid-1960s, and they were terribly inadequate.
		Remember that resources are available to you through community and medical support groups, asbestos victims' organizations, your place of worship, as well as your family and friends.
	mesothelioma-facts.com (200 words)

	Asbestos Attorneys
		The Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos, PC, was one of the first law firms in the United States to accept and litigate asbestos cases.
		The breadth of our experience in asbestos litigation is evident from the settlements and verdicts we have obtained for our clients.
		We have seen the catastrophic effects of asbestos exposure, the human suffering that it causes and the lives that it has destroyed.
	www.asbestosattorneys.net (425 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Asbestos in Tampons
		Asbestos is not an ingredient in any U.S. brand of tampon, nor is it associated with the fibers used in making tampons.
		The use of asbestos (an incombustible fibrous material made from magnesium silicate and used for fireproofing, electrical insulation, and chemical filters) is now regulated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency because of the health hazards it poses, and its use in certain products has been banned outright.
		Rayon contributes to the danger of tampons and dioxin because it is a highly absorbent substance and therefore when fibers from the tampons are left behind in the vagina (as usually occurs), it creates a breeding ground for the dioxin, and stays in a lot longer than it would with just cotton tampons.
	www.snopes.com /medical/toxins/tampon.asp (2370 words)

	Asbestos Hazards Handbook - Chapter 5: Asbestos and the Law
		Asbestos is affected by legislation that has been introduced under a number of different Acts of Parliament.
		An attempt to introduce a phased ban on the use of asbestos in the European Community was narrowly defeated in March 1987.
		Asbestos cement products, roof sheets and pipes, and asbestos slates are still marketed in the UK and in other parts of the European Union.
	www.lhc.org.uk /members/pubs/books/asbestos/asb05.htm (3743 words)

	FACSNET Reporting Tools: Asbestos Resources
		Asbestos home page provides links to general information, state and federal contacts, commonly used acronyms, laws and regulations, and the EPA's attempts to ban products that contain asbestos.
		New Jersey judiciary Web site features a section on the status of cases in the state, including asbestos and an faq on mass tort.
		The asbestos page includes an overview, law firm listings, message boards and related links.
	www.facsnet.org /tools/law_gov/Asbestos_resources.php3 (433 words)

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