A Baltimore jury ordered Johnson & Johnson and its subsidiaries to pay over $1.5 billion to a woman who claimed decades of ...

A Maryland jury ordered Johnson & Johnson ($JNJ) to pay about $1.56 billion to a woman who claimed the company’s talc-based baby powder caused her ...

A Baltimore jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $1.5 billion to Cherie Craft, who alleges asbestos in their talc-based products caused her peritoneal mesothelioma. The company plans to appeal, ...

BOSTON, Sept. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A Boston jury has returned an $83 million verdict against American Art Clay Company, agreeing that a Western Massachusetts woman's mesothelioma death was caused ...

CHICAGO — The Illinois Attorney General and the City of Chicago filed a lawsuit this week alleging the mishandling of materials containing asbestos during the renovation of a building on the city’s ...

Dozens of feet of tubing connect Gayla Benefield to her oxygen machine so she can walk from room to room inside her home on the picturesque Kootenai River, surrounded by the Cabinet Mountains. Like ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Teachers' Union is taking legal action over the district's handling of asbestos exposure in school buildings. "Time and again, the School District has claimed ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Supreme Court reversed the appellate court’s dismissal of an employee’s lawsuit alleging an aircraft turbines manufacturing firm, the corporate successor of the ...

Asbestos is a class of minerals that can be used to create durable materials that are heat-, fire- and chemical-resistant.