Asbestos exposure can cause serious illnesses many years after it occurs. Diseases such as mesothelioma and asbestos lung ...

Asbestos is a class of minerals that can be used to create durable materials that are heat-, fire- and chemical-resistant. Those properties made it popular in construction, the military and chemical ...

Mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer, most often caused by exposure to asbestos, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Workers whose jobs involved exposure to asbestos – including boilermakers, boiler workers, carpenters, factory workers, laborers, pipe coverers, and pipefitters – may be in danger of developing ...

Most people know that asbestos exposure can be dangerous for health, but they may not realize that asbestos-related diseases still kill about 12,000 Americans every year. The perils of asbestos have ...

Peter Photakis never imagined that being a teacher would one day lead him into one of South Australia’s most important public ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has expanded the separate-disease rule in asbestos cases to allow a plaintiff to sue more than once for two distinct, malignant, asbestos-related diseases arising at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An attorney for a ...