In opposition, the plaintiffs cited depositions from different cases, including testimony that the defendant sold Teflon asbestos and graphite asbestos gaskets, graphited asbestos stem packings ...

Contractors must be especially careful of asbestos exposure when working in older buildings, particularly those built before the 1980s. Depending on the manufacturer and date of installation, asbestos ...

To Fight Asbestos Cases, Garlock Uses Other Claims as Defense Maker of Gaskets Hopes to Show Plaintiffs' Lawyer Are Blaming Others By Dionne Searcey July 21, 2013 10:45 pm ET Resize ...

By suing the asbestos lawyers who are suing it, Garlock is following in the steps of CSX, which in 2012 won a $429,000 fraud verdict against Pittsburgh lawyers Robert Peirce and Louis Raimond ...

A federal judge in Chicago has dismissed a lawsuit by plastic pipe maker JM Eagle against a U.S. law firm that filed hundreds of asbestos personal injury cases against it.

Chrysotile asbestos is found in products such as brake blocks, asbestos diaphragms and sheet gaskets and was banned under the Toxic Substances Control Act, which was broadened in 2016.

Check: Traffic Updates A 14-inch steam line on Union Street had a small rupture overnight, sending steam and particles of the asbestos insulation covering the pipe into the air.