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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...

In just the last five years, there were more than 300 estimated deaths in Northern Ireland from asbestos exposure, notes a U.TV article, citing a new government report.

The Northern Ireland General Register Office, the province’s...

The family of a General Motors worker who died from job-related asbestos exposure was awarded $3 million by a New York State jury.

According to the Tonawanda News, Gerald Suttner worked at the automaker’s GM...

Decades ago, the safety and warmth of winter indoors had a dark shadow cast overtop, as the threat of asbestos exposure was ever-present. Homes were built with it. So were car parts. Government agencies used it in their buildings and equipment.

It was difficult to relax when considering just how...