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$8,042,000 Recovery ($3,042,000 compensatory and $5,000,000 punitive damages) - A career boilermaker at several paper mills, chemical plants and shipyards for over 45 years contracted mesothelioma.

 

$6,825,000 Recovery ($6,725,000 compensatory and $100,000 punitive damages) - A shipyard worker for two years, painter for thirteen years working around joint compound and drywall, and maintenance worker at several power plants for approximately twelve years developed mesothelioma.

 

$6,050,000 Recovery ($1,050,000 compensatory and $5,000,000 punitive damages) - A career machinist developed mesothelioma after being exposed to asbestos while working for the railroad for 39 years.

 

$5,000,000 Recovery ($2,500,000 compensatory and $2,500,000 punitive damages) - A welder at a shipyard for over 35 years developed mesothelioma after been exposed to asbestos.

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New Research Grants Continue Progress Against Dread Cancer
Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation Announces Additional $1 Million of Research Funding MORE

Few think asbestos bill is dead
The advertising blitzes may have halted and the telephones quieted since the asbestos trust-fund bill was brought down in the Senate last week, but the special interests working all sides of the issue are not exhaling yet. MORE

No agreement on how to resolve asbestos claims
The Senate fell one vote short Feb. 14 of stopping a procedural challenge to a bill that would set up a $140 billion asbestos trust fund and it's uncertain when it will come up again for a vote. MORE

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Owens Corning Sets Up Asbestos Fund for Victims
To recover, claimants must be seriously ill from exposure to asbestos at a job site where Owens Corning's products were used. The spouses of people killed by exposure can also recover.... (More)

W.R. Grace & Co. and New Jersey Dispute Asbestos Lawsuit Venue
TRENTON - W.R. Grace & Co. and the New Jersey attorney general are wrangling over what court will have jurisdiction over the state's civil suit against the Maryland-based construction products and chemical manufacturer. The lawsuit, filed in state Superior Court... (More)

Mesothelioma Community Will Convene to Focus on Cure
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The urgent mission to improve treatments for a deadly, asbestos-related cancer will make another step forward, the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (MARF) announced today, with the Second International Symposium on Malignant Mesothelioma. Meso... (More)