New York Times Columnist Joe Nocera has a hard-hitting piece today about the sheer cynicism of U.S. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's attempt to get money from some 70 companies for her lung cancer, which ...

Gasket manufacturer Garlock Technologies has sued four prominent asbestos law firms for fraud as it awaits a bankruptcy judge's decision on how much money the company must set aside to settle ...

Great Wall Motors (GWM) South Africa has tried to reassure its local customers that there is no immediate cause for alarm following the discovery of cancer-causing asbestos in gaskets of selected ...

When the bankruptcy hearings of Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC begin Monday, the maker of asbestos gaskets hopes to show that plaintiffs' lawyers have already found someone else to blame for ...

Wolseley said four customers in the US and Canada had found that supposedly asbestos-free gaskets - used as plumbing seals - had actually contained substantially more than 1 per cent asbestos ...

Some industries still use asbestos in products like car brakes and sheet gaskets. You've probably seen those asbestos warning signs posted on old and crumbling condemned buildings. But asbestos is ...

It is the most common type of asbestos used in the world, used in car parts such as aftermarket automotive brakes and linings and other vehicle friction products and gaskets. It’s been banned in ...

aka "white asbestos," is still imported, processed, and used in the US for diaphragms (including those used to make sodium hydroxide and chlorine), sheet gaskets, brake blocks, aftermarket ...

Early automobile gaskets like the one recovered from the site monitoring visit were very frequently manufactured with asbestos. Asbestos was used in many products during the first half of the 20th ...

In the mid-1800s, the development of vulcanization allowed rubber to become a more common gasket material. By the early-1900s, the proliferation in the use of asbestos in products of all types ...