Asbestos Mesothelioma In The News

ASBESTOS campaigners have welcomed a landmark judgement preventing a bid by insurance companies to stop paying out compensation.

Exxon is accused of negligence in an ex-yard worker's cancer death. Stanley Morton was long retired from the Newport News shipyard when he was diagnosed with asbestos-related cancer in April 2006.

Perth scientists have made a major breakthrough in their bid to find a cure for the deadly lung disease mesothelioma, after discovering that a commercial skin cancer cream was able to cure mice with advanced mesothelioma tumours.

YOU wouldn't think there were many laughs to be had about asbestosis and mesothelioma but the Newport writer and director of a new theatre production discovered otherwise.

Deal worth at least $60 million in case involving insulation W.R. Grace & Co. said yesterday it has reached a deal worth at least $60 million to settle property damage claims filed by the owners of homes and businesses who used an attic and wall insulation manufactured by the Columbia chemical maker.

YOU'D see him going downhill. He couldn't walk anywhere. He was flat-out just getting to the postbox.

A Spokane attorney has helped negotiate a tentative $140.million class-action settlement with W.R. Grace & Co. over Zonolite Attic Insulation, an asbestos-tainted product installed in millions of U.S. homes.

FAMILIES of mesothelioma victims will not be denied compensation from insurers, thanks to a High Court victory. Insurers had tried to use a legal loophole to defeat claims made against them by victims of the asbestos-related cancer or their families.

TERRY WARD spent most of his life as a builder working on sites with little or no protection against the invisible danger of asbestos.

Nine years after its use was banned, statistics show that nearly 4,000 people in the UK die each year from the effects of asbestos exposure whilst at work.