The Baltimore City Circuit Court’s efforts to reduce its backlog of asbestos cases belies any need for statutory, regulatory or budgetary changes to how these personal injury claims are currently handled, the Maryland Judiciary stated this week in a report ...

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Maryland’s top court has upheld a $7.3 million award to an asbestos exposure victim and his wife despite a lack of direct evidence that the company found responsible had installed the flame-retardant carcinogen. In a 6-1 decision last week, the ...

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Foster Wheeler LLC and the family of a man who allegedly died from exposure to the company’s asbestos-containing products are engaged in a war of words as the family’s lawsuit heads toward trial in federal court in Baltimore. Specifically, the ...

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Foster Wheeler LLC cannot pin on Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point Shipyard the fatal disease a man allegedly contracted during his 30 years working at the Baltimore-area yard that used asbestos-containing products that Foster Wheeler supplied, a federal judge has ruled ...

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ANNAPOLIS – The Senate gave preliminary approval Tuesday to late-filed legislation that would require thousands of pending lawsuits alleging illness from asbestos exposure be referred for mediation within the executive branch. The bill, which the Senate could vote on as ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Attorneys for plaintiffs and defendants in more than 22,000 pending asbestos cases in Baltimore squared off before a Senate panel Tuesday over the best way to shrink the docket in the city’s circuit court. Armand J. Volta Jr., ...

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Attorneys for plaintiffs and defendants in more than 13,000 asbestos cases in Baltimore will bring before a Senate panel Tuesday their years-long battle over whether and how to consolidate the litigation so the cases can be heard in court. The ...

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A Baltimore jury has awarded nearly $14.5 million to a former steamfitter who was exposed to asbestos for nearly a decade while at work and performing home improvement projects. William E. Busch Jr., now 68, was involved in several new ...

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A Baltimore jury has awarded $8.1 million to a man suffering from terminal mesothelioma caused by his exposure to asbestos more than 40 years ago while working at a bank in the city.

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A manufacturer in limited circumstances can be held liable for failing to warn consumers about the asbestos contained in replacement parts it did not make but are essential to the operation of its product, a divided Maryland high court has held

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