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The AsbestosClaims.Law blog
New studies, court rulings, trust changes and finds from the archives, and what each one means for a family with an asbestos claim.
Study · Lead story
A comprehensive new review published in the 2025 edition of Frontiers in Public Health reveals critical disparities in how asbestos exposure is understood and documented between sexes, suggesting significant gaps in…
About: Mesothelioma
Study
Sep 18, 2025 · 7 min
Study
Sep 17, 2025 · 7 min
Exposure alert
Sep 11, 2025 · 6 min
Each one gathers every post on the story in date order.
Sep 32025
Study
A July 2025 paper in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine updates a one‑of‑a‑kind group: 2,464 people who lived in Wittenoom, Western Australia, before age 15, while crocidolite – the most carcinogenic variety of…
Sep 12025
Asbestos questions
There’s a certain thrill to discovering a one-of-a-kind vintage piece. Whether it’s a tufted velvet armchair from the 1950s, a beret from the 1940s, or a set of mid-century silverware, vintage items tend to carry a…
Aug 182025
Courts & policy
Chrysotile (white) asbestos in brake pads legally causes peritoneal mesothelioma, according to a July 2025 New York court of appeals opinion.
Aug 52025
From the firm
But the microscopic, needle-like fibers that made asbestos so useful also made it profoundly dangerous when inhaled. The ensuing public health crisis has prompted decades of regulatory action worldwide.
Jul 292025
Study
Researchers found a significant increase in digestive tract cancers among people with pleural plaques, the scarring in the lining of the lungs that comes from asbestos exposure.
About: Asbestos and Colon Cancer · Asbestos and Stomach Cancer
Jul 152025
From the firm
While deregulation can sometimes spur innovation and economic growth, there are rare instances where a substance is so unequivocally dangerous that stringent rules are not just a good idea, but a vital necessity.
Jul 142025
Courts & policy
The EPA’s 2024 chrysotile asbestos ban has been well-documented, on this site and elsewhere.
Jul 102025
Exposure alert
A new investigative report details how the School District of Philadelphia failed to carry out legally required asbestos inspections, possibly for years.
Jul 72025
Courts & policy
The EPA spent over thirty years trying to ban asbestos. Trump 2.0 may take less than thirty months to undo that work.
Jun 302025
Exposure alert
The specter of asbestos-related disease has long haunted older generations. The longer one lives after significant exposure, the higher the statistical probability that these latent diseases will manifest.
Jun 162025
Courts & policy
In March 2024, the United States became the latest country to ban asbestos. However, we’ve been down this road before. In 1989, the Environmental Protection Agency enacted a similar rule.
Jun 92025
Exposure alert
Unfortunately it has returned to the public spotlight in the form of Federal defunding threats and purported mismanagement of a health clinic set up to address the asbestos issue and the many people affected by it.
May 232025
Exposure alert
When you push open the doors of a neighborhood library, you might expect dust motes and the papery tang of old novels – but not a carcinogen hanging invisibly in the air.
May 222025
Exposure alert
Earlier this year, a Florida family shared a worrying story: while staying at an RV park in Pinellas County, near St.
May 162025
Exposure alert
When contractors at a renovation site in central Connecticut ripped into an aging ceiling and hit a layer of crumbly, gray insulation, the project screeched to a sudden halt.