| Asbestos laces many residential soils
It was the mid-1980s, and Terry Trent and his wife, Carol Adams, had broken ground for their dream home. Atop a hill east of Sacramento, Calif., the remote, 10-acre site in the Sierra foothills offered plenty of privacy. As the couple eventually learned, it offered plenty of something else as well: a nasty type of asbestos known as tremolite. Respiratory exposure to this mineral has been linked with mesothelioma, a lung cancer that quickly turns fatal. .
Compensation speeded up for asbestos cancer claims
PEOPLE suffering from lung cancer after being exposed to asbestos will receive compensation more quickly under moves introduced by the government yesterday. John Hutton, the Work and Pensions Secretary, said the system would be speeded up to ensure people suffering from mesothelioma received their money before they died. He said interim measures to speed up the claims process would be put into action now.. About 1,800 people are currently diagnosed with mesothelioma each year, and as many as 2,400 people could die from it annually by 2013. But while the disease has a long latency period, people typically die within 12 to 18 months of having it diagnosed. Under the new measures insurance claims handlers will be told to give priority to mesothelioma claims.
Baron & Budd, P.C. Attorney Ellen Presby to Speak at University of Houston Law Foundation Program
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) July 20, 2006 -- Baron & Budd, P.C. attorney Ellen Presby will speak on the topic of "Sanctions for Discovery Abuse: When and How to Invoke the Court's Power" at the Advanced Evidence and Discovery Course held today and tomorrow in Houston and July 27 - 28 in Dallas. Baron & Budd attorney Kevin McHargue and Presby are co-authors of the paper that Presby will present. The program is sponsored by the University of Houston Law Foundation. .
Asbestos laces many residential soils
It was the mid-1980s, and Terry Trent and his wife, Carol Adams, had broken ground for their dream home. Atop a hill east of Sacramento, Calif., the remote, 10-acre site in the Sierra foothills offered plenty of privacy. As the couple eventually learned, it offered plenty of something else as well: a nasty type of asbestos known as tremolite. Respiratory exposure to this mineral has been linked with mesothelioma, a lung cancer that quickly turns fatal. .
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