Posted on 15 October 2012. Tags: mesothelioma
All too often people who develop mesothelioma are diagnosed at an advanced stage and at a time when it is very difficult to provide treatment that presents any real hope of long term survival. I had many conversations with the late Dr. Irving Selikoff, the pioneeer, in this area, of the need for modern medicine […]
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Posted in Community
Posted on 08 October 2012. Tags: mesothelioma
Addressing a series of first impression maritime law issues in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a judge has ruled that a ship doesn’t qualify as a product for the purposes of products liability and that makers of the components of those ships don’t have a duty to warn “sophisticated” users about hazardous products, like […]
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Posted in Cases that Change America
Posted on 07 September 2012. Tags: mesothelioma
When someone gets hurt on the high seas there is a federal law known as the Jones Act the provides for jury trial if the seaman was not provided a safe place to work. Today My friends John Herrick , Don Krispin and Duane Marsden succeeded in convincing the jury that the family of William […]
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Posted in Civil Justice Update
Posted on 26 July 2012. Tags: mesothelioma
Epidemiologists oppose reopening asbestos mine BY CATHERINE SOLYOM, THE GAZETTE JULY 24, 2012 4 STORYPHOTOS ( 1 ) Bernard Coulombe, owner of the asbestos mine Jeffrey Mine Inc., displays some of the fibres from a chrysotile (asbestos) rock in the town of Asbestos, Quebec, 170 kilometres east […]
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Posted in Consumer Protection