Insurer's asbestos-related lawsuits at high court

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider reinstating a roughly $500 million settlement of asbestos-related lawsuits against the Travelers Companies Inc.

Court rules asbestos victims can sue machine maker

A state appeals court Monday reinstated San Francisco lawsuits by asbestos victims against a manufacturer of brake shoe grinding machines that released the lethal fibers from brake linings. The suits were filed by a...

Citadel Plaza real estate director sentenced in asbestos case

Anthony Crompton, the former real estate director of a nonprofit agency that littered a Kansas City development site with asbestos, was sentenced Tuesday to a half-way house and federal probation.

Appeals Court upholds asbestos-case ruling

Because he inhaled dangerous fibers in New Mexico and not in Arizona, the widow of an Arizona man who died of lung disease cannot sue those whose design of a power plant may have made him ill, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled.

Warren had key role in asbestos court case

Six months after Elizabeth Warren arrived in Washington to work as an adviser to Congress, she experienced another career milestone in the nation’s capital, a seat at the US Supreme Court’s mahogany counsel table. The case was remarkable in many respects. It was sprawling and complicated, involving dozens of lawyers, and nearly three decades of court battles, which have still not ended. It was ...

Road waste 'puts public at risk'

One of the State's biggest waste management companies says a recent High Court decision leaves the State Government exposed to lawsuits over what it says is the unsafe disposal of construction material.