Suit Claims Companies Conspired Against Asbestos Victims

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Suit Claims Companies Conspired Adjoin Asbestos Victims

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

A Texas brace has filed a clothing adjoin their antecedent administration claiming that they conspired to mine, action and advertise asbestos products.

The brace claims the companies suppressed advice apropos the risks associated with asbestos fibers.

Lawsuit Allegations

Warren Devillier and his wife Rose filed the asbestos accusation adjoin A.W. Chesterton and 15 others companies.

The brace is claiming that the defendants advisedly conspired to could cause injuries and construed the accuracy apropos the assurance of alive with and about asbestos.

“As a aftereffect of Devillier’s acknowledgment to asbestos…over his career, he apprenticed a ache which will one day yield his life,” states the suit. “Each actor bears albatross in causing plaintiffs’ injuries.”

Couple Seeks Compensation

According to reports, the brace is gluttonous banking advantage for the acknowledgment and the development of mesothelioma that resulted.

Devillier and his wife achievement to be compensated for their concrete pain, absent accomplishment and approaching medical expenses.

(Source: The Southeast Texas Record)

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AZ Man Claims Second Hand Exposure

AZ Man Claims Second Hand Exposure

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

An Arizona man who is currently living with mesothelioma recently filed a suit against 59 defendants claiming they are to blame for his disease.

The man believes that due to second hand exposure from his grandfather’s clothing he was unknowingly exposed to asbestos.

He also says that he was wrongfully exposed to asbestos throughout his career doing home and automotive repairs.

Lawsuit Allegations

Jesus Manriquez claims that during his employment he worked with and around products that contained asbestos.

“Dust created by working with and around asbestos and asbestos-containing products would permeate the person and clothing of the plaintiff and plaintiff’s grandfather,” states the suit. “This dust contained asbestos fiber.”

Manriquez says his grandfather would carry the asbestos dust home on his clothing and it would then become airborne.

The plaintiff was employed at various locations throughout Arizona and Illinois through the duration of his career.

Seeking Compensation for Mesothelioma

Manriquez says that as a result of his exposure, he developed the fatal cancer known as mesothelioma, which is caused by asbestos exposure.

He is seeking $350,000 in damages for negligence, conspiracy and the cost of his treatment.

(Source: The Madison St. Clair Record)

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Estimate Says Bondex May Owe More than a Billion in Asbestos Claims

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May 22, 2013

Wilmington, Delaware - A U.S. bankruptcy judge considering the case of Bondex International Inc. has sided with lawyers representing asbestos claimants, rejecting a method the company used to determine that they owe only about $575 million to those injured by asbestos exposure caused by their products. Instead, the judge says, that figure is closer to $1.17 billion.

An article in Bloomberg reports that Bondex, which is a unit of RPM International Incorporated – makers of Rust-Oleum – tried to grossly underestimate their obligations to current and future victims of asbestos exposure.

“We decline to accept debtors’ novel approach in this case,” said Judge Judith K. Fitzgerald in her opinion, issued this week. The ruling was made to help determine how much Bondex and its affiliates must attempt to set aside as part of the company’s reorganization plan.

After the company filed bankruptcy in 2010, faced with an exorbitant number of asbestos-related claims, it vowed to set up an asbestos victims trust that would address current and future lawsuits against them. By organizing such a trust, the company becomes immune from future lawsuits. The trust provides compensation that victims can use for medical care and other expenses associated with a diagnosis of mesothelioma cancer.

Bondex International, originally owned by Reardon, was purchased by Republic Powdered Metals (RPM) in 1966. The company is best known in the United States as the makers of a line of household patching and repair products but also produced dozens of general contractor and home remodeling products including those for surface preparation, wallpapering, texturing, and concrete and masonry repair. Many of these products once contained asbestos though the company no longer uses the mineral in the manufacture of its products.

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