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Aerospace Industry Once Major Asbestos Risk

1/16/2013 3:00 PM EST  -   Sokolove Law
President Obama recently signed legislation that reclassified some communications satellite technologies as being civilian, and not military. This will lift some export restrictions. Because of this, claims a Forbes opinion piece, the American aerospace industry appears poised for a major comeback with...

Pakistan: Heading towards Asbestos Ban?

1/11/2013 6:00 PM EST  -   Sokolove Law
Pakistan may join 55 other countries in imposing an asbestos ban, if its National Assembly acts according to the recommendations of one of its special subcommittees.

Last month, the Pakistan National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Human Resource Development recommended a complete ban on the import and use of asbestos in 22...

Pakistan: Possible Asbestos Ban?

1/11/2013 5:00 PM EST  -   Sokolove Law
Fears of cancer and other dangerous diseases have prompted the Pakistan national legislature to consider serious asbestos regulation.

Late in December, the Pakistan National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Human Resource Development recommended a complete freeze on the import and use of asbestos in 22 of...

Asbestos Hampers Small Business Owner

1/8/2013 2:00 PM EST  -   Sokolove Law
Asbestos contamination has left a shoe retailer in upstate New York out a one-month old store and facing debt.

After borrowing tens of thousands of dollars, Jesse Deitchman opened Sneaker World, a retail shoe store, in August 2012, in the village of Liberty, N.Y., according to a recent...
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Relatives Hope Pictures Will Help Bid for Asbestos Justice

8/24/2010 5:32 AM EST  -   Adessi
The family of a Darlington man killed by an asbestos-related disease has appealed to his former colleagues to help honour his memory by assisting a bid for justice.

Richard Todd was 77 when he died shortly before Christmas 2009 of Asbestosis, an inflammatory lung condition caused by exposure to asbestos.

Mr Todd worked for British Rail throughout the North East as a wagon and horsebox builder and joiner from 1947...