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October is Healthy Lung Month, and for anyone who worked around asbestos, it is a good time to understand what that exposure may have done and what to watch for. Asbestos fibers do not cause damage right away. They stay in the lungs for decades, and the conditions they cause, from pleural plaques to asbestosis …
A federal judge in Virginia has thrown out Johnson & Johnson’s trade libel lawsuit against three doctors who published research on mesothelioma patients whose only known asbestos exposure was cosmetic talc. The court found the company could not show the researchers published anything knowing it was false or while seriously doubting it was true. The …
On July 27, 2026, Johnson & Johnson announced a proposed $5.5 billion resolution of the ovarian cancer talc claims consolidated in federal court in New Jersey and in related state court cases. The agreement is conditioned on at least 95 percent of remaining claimants participating, and it pays nothing until 2027. It does not resolve …
If you spent years working at a chemical plant before the 1980s, you were likely exposed to asbestos, and the danger may not have stopped at the plant gate. Asbestos fibers cling to clothing, hair, and skin. Workers routinely carried them home, where wives and children breathed them in while doing laundry or simply greeting …
The same federal court that struck down the EPA’s asbestos ban in 1991 is now deciding whether the agency’s 2024 chrysotile asbestos rule survives. On June 1, 2026, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments in Texas Chemistry Council v. EPA, and the central question that …
