Since then lawsuits have been filed against asbestos manufacturers and employers, for neglecting to implement safety measures after the link between asbestos , asbestosis, and mesothelioma became known (some reports seem to place this as early as 1898).
The liability resulting from the sheer number of lawsuits and people affected has reached billions of dollars . The amounts and method of allocating compensation have been he source of many court cases, reaching up to the United States Supereme Court, and govermment attempts at resolution of existing and future cases . However , to date , the US Congress has not stepped in and there are no federl laws governing asbestos compensation .
Legal History
The first lawsuit against asbestos manufacturers was brought in 1929.
The parties settled that lawsuit,and as part of the agreement ,the attorneys agreed not to pursue further cases.
It was not until 1960 that an article published by Wagner
et al. first officially established mesothelioma as a disease arising from exposure to crocidolite asbestos. The article referred to over 30 case studies of people who had suffered from mesothelioma in South Africa .
Some exposures were transient and some were mine workers. However prior to 1950 malignant mesothelioma was extremely rate and some experts even questioned its existence. In 1962 McNulty Reported the first diagnosed case ofmalignant mesothelioma in an Australian asbestos worked .
The worked had worked in the mill at the asbestos mine in Wittenoom from 1948 to 1950 .
in the town of Wittenoom , asbestos-containing mine waste was used to cover schoolyards and playground s. In 1965 an article in the British Journal of industrial Medicine establishe that people who lived in the neighbourhoods of asbestos actories and mines , but not work in them, had contracted mesothelioma.
Despite proof that the dust asssociated with asbestos mining and milling causes asbestos - related disease , mining began at Wittenoom in 1943 and continued until 1966.
in 1974 the first public warnings of the dangers of blue asbestos were published in a cover story called
"Is this killer in Your Home?
in Australia's largest state and the second largest subnational entity in the world , It has 2.2 million inhabitants 910% of the national total ), 85 % of whom live in the south -west corner of the state.
The state's capital city is Perth. The people of western Austalia are often colloquially referred to as sandgropers ,the commone name of an insect found on sand dunes around Perth.
Govermment decided to phase out the town of Wittenoom. following the publication of Health Dept. booklet, "The Health Hazard at Wittenoom". containing the result of air sampling and an appraisal of worldwide medical information .
By 1979 the first writs for negligence related to wittenoom were issued against CSR and its subsidiary ABA, and the Asbestos Diseases Society was formed to represent the wittenoom victims.
In Armley , Leeds, England the JWRoberts asbestos incident involved several court cases against Turner &Newall Where local residents who contracted mesothelioma claimed compensation because of the asbestos pollution from the company"s factory . One notable case was that June Hancock, who contracted the disese in 1993 and died in 1997.
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India orders onvestigation of formed Us Navy ship over alleged asbestos contamination
October 16th, 2009
The Indian government has begun an investigation to determine whether a former United States naval shipscheduled to be dismantled contains toxic materials . The goverment"s investigations comes in response to protests by environmental groups who claim that the ship contains hundreds of fons of toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbS)and asbestos.
The ship in questions -previously known as the SS Independence when it was used by the US Navy--dropped anchor of the coast of India on October 4th inorder to be dismantld. Environmental groups protesting the ship"s presence say that they fear that toxic materials aboard the vessel could jeopardize the live of shipyard workers who will conduct the demolition .