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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.
Courts & policy · Lead story
Our last news post ran in September 2025. Since then J&J has proposed a $5.5 billion ovarian talc settlement, the FDA dropped its talc testing rule, Libby's clinic closed, and more. Here is what matters for families.
About: Asbestos, Talc, and Ovarian Cancer · W.R. Grace Asbestos Trust Claims · Montana Asbestos Exposure Sites
From the firm
Nov 12, 2026 · 5 min
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Nov 12, 2026 · 4 min
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Nov 12, 2026 · 2 min
Each one gathers every post on the story in date order.
Nov 122026
From the archives
The liner sunk off Florida this week was sold to the world as the safest ship afloat. Johns-Manville's own records show what made her fireproof: more than half a million square feet of asbestos board.
About: Marinite and the SS Morro Castle Disaster · Asbestos Exposure in Shipyards and Maritime Work · Amosite
Nov 122026
From the firm
In February 2026 the science channel Veritasium published a long video on asbestos. We answered with a live watch-through and three short clips. Here they are, with the records behind them, including a check of the World War II numbers.
About: The Johns-Manville Knowledge Chronology · Asbestos Exposure in Shipyards and Maritime Work
Sep 222025
Study
A 2025 review in Frontiers in Public Health finds that women with mesothelioma are more likely than men to have environmental or unknown asbestos exposure, and that studies define these exposures inconsistently.
About: Mesothelioma
Sep 182025
Study
A 2025 review found that women with mesothelioma are far less likely than men to have a known work exposure, and more likely to have environmental or unknown exposure.
About: Mesothelioma
Sep 172025
Study
An updated review of studies of asbestos-exposed women adds to the evidence that asbestos causes ovarian cancer, a link IARC recognized in 2012.
Sep 112025
Exposure alert
A lawsuit filed by three former facilities workers alleges Grace Community Church had them tear out asbestos floor tile at a future school building without protection, then fired them after they raised safety concerns.
Sep 32025
Study
A 2025 study followed 2,464 people who lived as children in the asbestos mining town of Wittenoom, Western Australia, and found high rates of mesothelioma decades later.
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
A New York appeals court upheld a jury verdict against Ford for a dealership parts worker's peritoneal mesothelioma, ruling that the evidence tying his illness to asbestos brakes was legally sufficient.
Aug 52025
From the firm
The tiny fibers that made asbestos so useful also made it deadly when breathed in. Decades of regulation followed. Which rules have actually protected people?
Jul 152025
From the firm
Deregulation can sometimes spur innovation and growth. But some substances are so dangerous that strict rules are a necessity. Asbestos is one.
Jul 72025
Courts & policy
In June 2025, EPA told a federal court it planned to reconsider the 2024 ban on chrysotile asbestos, a process it estimated would take about 30 months.
Jun 302025
Exposure alert
Residents of Branan Towers, a senior apartment building in Atlanta, say pipe repairs disturbed asbestos before they were told about it.
Jun 162025
Courts & policy
In March 2024, EPA banned the remaining uses of chrysotile asbestos in the United States. We've been down this road before: in 1989, EPA issued a broader ban that a court mostly struck down.
Jun 92025
Exposure alert
Libby's asbestos clinic, the Center for Asbestos Related Disease, closed in May 2025 after BNSF Railway had its property seized to collect on a court judgment, while its federal grant faced possible cuts.