Quoted from http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2012/02/15/ex-naval-ship-workers-sue-over-asbestos-claims

• February 15, 2012, 3:43 PM

Ex-Naval Ship Workers Sue Over Asbestos Claims

By Jacqueline Palank

Wall Street Journal Bankruptcy Blog

Several people seeking compensation for diseases and death due to asbestos exposure on U.S. naval ships say those responsible for issuing payment are unfairly discriminating against them because they aren’t U.S. citizens.

The allegations form the basis for a newly filed lawsuit related to the 1982 bankruptcy of Johns Manville Corp., a manufacturer of building products that used Chapter 11 to resolve a wave of litigation by people claiming to have become ill from the asbestos in its products.

The latest suit, filed Tuesday in Manhattan bankruptcy court, concerns asbestos-related illnesses contracted by men from England, Greece and Malta who worked on active-duty U.S. warships docked in their home countries as well as in places like Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor and Virginia’s Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Some of the men died from their illnesses, which include malignant mesothelioma, asbestosis and gastrointestinal cancer.

Each man (or his representative) filed a claim against a trust set up to compensate those who became ill from Johns Manville’s products. The men say their illnesses resulted from their exposure to the asbestos dust and fibers contained in Johns Manville products found in the U.S. naval ships’ boiler rooms, engine rooms and other confined areas. They say the trust has wrongly concluded that their exposure occurred off U.S. soil.

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Quoted from http://www.wvrecord.com/news/241783-n.c.-couple-names-73-defendants-in-asbestos-case

N.C. couple names 73 defendants in asbestos case

2/13/2012 8:33 AM

By Kyla Asbury -Kanawha Bureau

CHARLESTON — A Stanley, N.C., couple is suing 73 companies they claim are responsible for a mesothelioma diagnosis.

On Aug. 13, 2010, Sidney William Mauney was diagnosed with mesothelioma, according to a complaint filed Jan. 23 in Kanawha Circuit Court.

Mauney claims he was exposed to asbestos and/or asbestos-containing products during his employment as an insulator from 1956 until 1993.

The defendants knew or should have known that exposure to asbestos could cause harm to Mauney, according to the suit….

The 73 defendants named in the suit are 3M Company; A.O. Smith Corporation; A.W. Chesterton Company; Air & Liquid Systems Corporation; American Electric Power; American Electric Power Service Corporation; Appalachian Power Company; Bechtel Corporation; Brand Insulations, Inc.; Burlington Industries, Inc.; BW IP, Inc.; Carolina Power & Light Company; Carrier Corporation; Catalytic Construction Company; Certainteed Corporation; Cleaver-Brooks, Inc.; Crane Co.; Crown, Cork & Seal USA, Inc.; Dravo Corporation; Eaton Electrical, Inc.; F.B. Wright; Fluor Corporation; Flowserve US Inc., individually and as successor to Edward Valves Inc. and Nordstrom Valves, Inc.; Flowservc US, Inc. f/k/a Durco International, Inc.; Flowservc US, Inc. f/k/a Flowserve FSD Corporation; Fluor Enterprises, Inc.; FMC Corporation; Gordon Gasket & Packing Co.; Goulds Pumps, Inc.; Greene Tweed & Company; Grinnell, LLC; Hercules, Inc.; Honeywell, Inc.; I.U. North America, Inc.; IMO Industries, Inc.; Industrial Holdings Corporation; ITT Corporation; John Crane, Inc.; Lockheed Martin Corporation; McJunkin Corporation; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Nagle Pumps, Inc.; National Service Industries Venture, Inc.; Nitro Industrial Coverings, Inc.; O.C. Keckley Company; Oakfabco, Inc.; Ohio Valley Insulating Company, Inc.; Owens-Illinois, Inc.; PPG Industries, Inc.; Rapid American Corporation; Riley Power Inc.; Rust Constructors, Inc.; Rust Engineering & Construction, Inc.; Rust International, Inc.; Schneider Electric; Spirax Sarco, Inc.; Sterling Fluid Systems (USA), LLC; Superior Boiler Works, Inc.; Tasco Insulations, Inc.; The Gage Company; The William Powell Company; UB West Virginia, Inc.; Uniroyal, Inc.; United Conveyer Corporation; United Engineers & Constructors and Washington Group International; Viacom, Inc.; Viking Pump, Inc.; Vimasco Corporation; Warren Pumps, Inc.; Weil-McLain Company; Yarway Corporation; Zenith Pumps; and Zurn Industries, Inc.

Quoted from http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/local-news/widow_in_compensation_bid_over_asbestos_death_1_3497585

Widow in compensation bid over asbestos death

Published on Thursday 9 February 2012 10:00

AN EASTBOURNE woman whose partner died from a cancer linked to asbestos has launched a legal battle for compensation of up to £150,000.

Gerald Giles, 81, died from malignant mesothelioma, a cancer of the tissues surrounding his lungs, after being exposed to asbestos to work.

Now his partner Marion Collins is demanding damages from his former employers Nicholls and Shoosmith, of Blackboys, Uckfield.

Mr Giles was exposed to deadly asbestos dust and fibres when he worked for the company as an apprentice carpenter in the 40s and 50s, according to a High Court writ.

He helped put up new asbestos corrugated roofs on garages, industrial buildings and farms, and ripped off old asbestos with a crowbar, dropping the pieces onto the ground where he smashed them up with a hammer and shovelled them into a truck, the writ says.

This produced clouds of asbestos dust, which hung around in the air, and asbestos dust and fibres covered his hair and clothes, it is alleged.

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Quoted from http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/asbestos-widow-suing-alcoa-20120208-1re6s.html

Asbestos widow suing Alcoa

Daniel Fogarty

February 8, 2012 – 6:44PM

AAP

Aluminium producer Alcoa would have known of the dangers of asbestos when a man who has since died of mesothelioma worked with the substance at its Geelong plant in the 1960s, a court has been told.

David Grant, 82, had been an active, happy and outgoing man until about six months before he died in July 2010, the Victorian Supreme Court heard on Wednesday.

Mr Grant was exposed to asbestos dust and fibres while he worked on construction of the Alcoa Point Henry smelter plant between 1962 and 1964, his barrister Jack Rush, QC, told jurors.

Mr Grant’s widow Margaret Grant is suing Alcoa of Australia Limited for damages for loss of enjoyment of life and medical costs.

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