Archive for January, 2008

Asbestos claim

Prolonged exposure to asbestos can give rise to lung cancer. Asbestos cancer attorneys are lawyers who represent victims who have contracted this dreadful disease through prolonged contact with asbestos. Their aim is to obtain compensation for their clients from those responsible for causing the damage.
The asbestos cancer lawyers have forcefully and fruitfully fought for asbestos [...]

Asbestos floor

Asbestos is a fibrous form of several minerals and hydrous silicates of magnesium. Asbestos is used in building-construction materials, textiles, missile and jet parts, tar compounds, paints and in friction products such as brake linings.
Exposure to asbestos fibers and dust results in asbestosis, a disease of the lungs, caused by inhalation of asbestos particles. After [...]

Naturally occurring asbestos

The Debate Over Asbestos Legislation
This year a growing legal crisis may affect you more than you could imagine. With proposed bills that would limit asbestos company liability and significantly reduce payouts, some worry that lawmakers who are in charge of advocating for everyday America may be pandering to special interests.
Prolonged asbestos exposure can lead to [...]

Asbestos fibers

What is Asbestos?
Asbestos is a term for several commonly found fibrous magnesium-silicate minerals. Due to their durable and versatile nature, asbestos materials were used widely in construction and manufacturing for most of the 20th century. Today, it is widely understood that asbestos is an extremely harmful substance. However, this was not always [...]

Non friable asbestos

In this, and a series of articles that will follow, we will cover asbestos, what it is, how it’s made, what it’s used for, the health risks of asbestos exposure and how to protect yourself against asbestos.
Asbestos isn’t actually one thing. It is a name given to a group of minerals. These minerals occur [...]

Asbestos floor

Prolonged exposure to asbestos can give rise to lung cancer. Asbestos cancer attorneys are lawyers who represent victims who have contracted this dreadful disease through prolonged contact with asbestos. Their aim is to obtain compensation for their clients from those responsible for causing the damage.
The asbestos cancer lawyers have forcefully and fruitfully fought for asbestos [...]

Asbestos trust

Asbestosis Claims and evidence of the death knell effect of asbestos on people who breathe its fibers is likely to increase in the future with more and more cases coming to the fore.
Asbestos, once hailed as the best and reliable building material available to the construction industries. The properties of being fire resistant, tensile [...]

Asbestos contamination

Although asbestos is no longer a commonly used material for building there has been a rise in the number of diseases caused by asbestos exposure. This is because the fibers that cause the problem take about 20 to 30 years to manifest. Thus, after a long period of dormancy the symptoms show up dramatically. What [...]

Asbestos shingle

Asbestos is a fibrous form of several minerals and hydrous silicates of magnesium. Asbestos is used in building-construction materials, textiles, missile and jet parts, tar compounds, paints and in friction products such as brake linings.
Exposure to asbestos fibers and dust results in asbestosis, a disease of the lungs, caused by inhalation of asbestos particles. After [...]