Tony Pinfold, the chairman of GWM SA, said yesterday a thorough investigation had been undertaken into the asbestos found in the gaskets of some of GWM’s vehicles in Australia, but the amount of ...

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 ...

This legislation threatens to make the already undesirable manufacture and use of asbestos products uneconomic, if permitted at all. In response to the resulting demands from the automotive industry ...

Asbestos lawyers were milking billions from American industry by allowing their clients to misrepresent their exposure. They got away with it for years, until an obscure, bankrupt gasket company ...

By the early-1900s, the proliferation in the use of asbestos in products of all types extended to gaskets, as the material was highly resistant to heat, wear, alkalis and acids, as well as having ...

Asbestos contains fibres that can cause serious diseases such as mesothelioma when inhaled. However, Wolseley said the asbestos gaskets were safe and could be sold legally in the US and Canada.

Madison County, dubbed the nation’s “epicenter” of asbestos litigation by the American Tort Reform Association, typically averages about one trial every other year, so this one should come ...

The Victor Manufacturing and Gasket Co. was acquired in 1966 by the Dana Corp., which began as the Spicer Manufacturing Co. in 1904 in Toledo, Ohio.

EPA’s actions come decades after the agency banned asbestos in 1989. But a federal court threw out the ban in 1991 on the basis of weaknesses in the Toxic Substances Control Act that limited its ...