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Volkswagen has been ordered to pay $5.75 million in damages to the family of a Washington auto mechanic who died from mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure in the workplace. The lawsuit, filed by former mechanic Thomas Sorrentino, alleged that Volkswagen failed to issue warnings that the company’s brakes and clutches contained asbestos, which could cause mechanics who worked with these parts to develop mesothelioma or other asbestos diseases.

Exposure to asbestos has been linked to an increased risk of several serious and potentially fatal diseases, including lung cancer, asbestosis, and mesothelioma cancer. (more…)

A lawsuit filed by a Minnesota man who was diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer caused by exposure to asbestos fibres that were allegedly brought home on his father’s clothing is scheduled to begin trial in May. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Gene “Randy” Backe, who was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2018 and later died from the disease. (more…)

Penn State University is facing a lawsuit filed on behalf of a former professor at the school who died in 2014 from mesothelioma cancer. The lawsuit, filed by the family of professor Peter Labosky, alleges that their father’s mesothelioma diagnosis was caused by decades of exposure to asbestos materials that were present in buildings on the Penn State campus in State College, Pennsylvania. (more…)

A Mississippi family has filed a class action lawsuit against Frito-Lay, alleging that employees at it Jackson, Mississippi manufacturing plant were exposed to asbestos on the job, putting them at risk of developing mesothelioma cancer or other asbestos-related diseases. The lawsuit was filed by the son of a man who worked at Frito-Lay’s Mississippi plant and was diagnosed with lung cancer, which his son believes was caused by asbestos exposure. (more…)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted approval for a two-drug combination designed to treat pleural mesothelioma. The new drug regimen — a combination of the medications Opdivo (nivolumab) and Yervoy (ipilimumab) — is the first mesothelioma drug treatment approved by the FDA in 16 years, and only the second ever FDA-approved mesothelioma treatment. (more…)

Until a few decades ago, when the use of products containing asbestos was restricted because of their link to mesothelioma cancer, the use of asbestos materials was widespread in the U.S. One of the most common places to encounter these asbestos products was in the workplace, including industrial and manufacturing sites. (more…)

For decades, the use of products containing asbestos was widespread across numerous industries in the United States. Between the 1930s and the 1970s — when the use of asbestos was restricted in the U.S. — hundreds of thousands of workers and ordinary citizens were exposed to asbestos, putting them at risk of developing mesothelioma cancer, asbestosis, lung cancer, or other diseases linked to asbestos. (more…)

The first death linked to mesothelioma cancer among 9/11 first responders has been reported in Pennsylvania. Experts say that the case may be the first of thousands of mesothelioma deaths among emergency workers who worked at Ground Zero in the days and weeks following terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. (more…)

Products containing asbestos were widely used by the U.S. military from the 1930s until the 1970s. If you or a loved one served in the US Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, or Merchant Marines and were diagnosed with mesothelioma or other asbestos-related diseases, you may be eligible to file a lawsuit and seek compensation. (more…)