Jury Awards Shipyard Worker’s Widow $10M
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Jul 27 11:41 AM
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - A jury awarded $10.4 million to the widow of a former shipyard worker who died of lung cancer after four years of working with materials that contained asbestos. The Newport News Circuit Court verdict in Wanda Jones’ wrongful death lawsuit against three companies that manufactured the materials was handed down Wednesday, the first anniversary of the death of 60-year-old Save to My Web
Baron & Budd, P.C. Attorney Ellen Presby to Speak at University of Houston Law Foundation Program
[Press Release] PR Web via Yahoo! News - Jul 20 12:00 AM
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) July 20, 2006 — Baron & Budd, P.Save to My Web
Asbestosis toll goes on
wigantoday.net - Jul 25 6:48 AM
Eleven Wiganers are currently being treated for asbestosis. (25/07/2006 14:44:46)Save to My Web
Bert Winnemueller ‘Takes Five’
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Aug 01 8:37 PM
It’s not that he was looking for a final adventure to close an adventurous life, but Bert Winnemueller knew he wouldn’t…Save to My Web
Economist Louis Winnick Dies at 85
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Jul 30 9:02 AM
MANHASSET, N.Y. (AP) - Louis Winnick, an economist who helped guide the investments of the Ford Foundation and promoted low-income home ownership, has died. He was 85. Winnick died Saturday at a hospice in Manhasset, on Long Island. The cause of death was mesothelioma, a type of lung cancer that his daughter Pamela Winnick attributed to exposure to asbestos when he worked in the Brooklyn Navy Save to My Web
Yesterday in parliament
Guardian Unlimited - Jul 18 12:55 AM
July 17 session: Britain expressed “grave concern” over the “escalating crisis” in Lebanon and called for all parties to resume peace talks.Save to My Web
Death Dust in Washing
RedNova - Jul 18 2:14 AM
A WOMAN has died from exposure to deadly asbestos after years of washing her husband’s work clothes, an inquest heard. Marjorie Fox, 61, contracted lung cancer after almost 20 years of shaking the dust from carpenter Kenneth’s overalls.Save to My Web