Anne Lawton claimed she was repeatedly exposed to deadly quantities of poisonous asbestos dust - Simon Dawson/Bloomberg The family of a grandmother who died from alleged asbestos poisoning is suing ...

Steven Kenny was a demolition worker in the late 1970s and had significant exposure to asbestos. More than four decades later ...

Some residents might remember how unsafe asbestos abatement practices compromised the health of Fort Morgan High School students in 2004. From public campuses to residential neighborhoods and ...

Thousands of asbestos-poisoning lawsuits that have been stuck in a decades-long backlog in Baltimore Circuit Court are now being dropped as no longer viable. Plaintiffs attorneys led by the Peter G.

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Every year, thousands of Americans lose their lives to mesothelioma, a rare but aggressive cancer caused by exposure to ...

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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced a comprehensive ban on asbestos, a carcinogen that is still used in some chlorine bleach, brake pads and other products and that ...