Category: Asbestos

Understanding the Risk of Asbestos in a Popcorn Ceiling In the late 1980s, the Environmental Protection Agency banned the use of asbestos or asbestos-containing products in the United States. A few years after the initial ban, a court overturned the ...

Meet the Speakers and Artists on Friday, September 16th, 2022 The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) will be holding the 17th Annual International Asbestos Awareness & Prevention Conference on September 16-17th, 2022. The event will t ...

BCH Law Partner Presenting on Non-Traditional Jurisdictions and Exposures at Perrin Conference Attorney Aaron Heckaman, a partner with Bailey Cowan Heckaman, will be presenting at the National Asbestos Litigation Conference in September. Heckaman has ...

BCH Law’s Aaron Heckaman Discusses Issues in Asbestos Litigation During Recent Conference Attorney Aaron Heckaman of Bailey Cowan Heckaman PLLC recently joined other industry leaders to discuss asbestos litigation expectations and trends for 2022 a ...

Bailey Cowan Heckaman PLLC has filed a civil lawsuit against several automotive and trucking companies on behalf of a client who was diagnosed with mesothelioma. The lawsuit, filed in Dallas County District Court, claims our client’s prolonged ...

Texas Petroleum Chemical (TPC Group) – a Houston-based petrochemical manufacturer and owner of a Port Neches industrial plant where a series of explosions in November 2019 resulted in the evacuation of over 60,000 residents – has been cited by OS ...

On Friday February 21, 2020, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued TPC Group over numerous environmental violations that contributed to a series of explosions at the company’s plant in Port Neches late last year. As discussed on a previous bl ...

With asbestos litigation being the longest, most expensive mass tort in American history, most people are familiar with the naturally occurring set of minerals, its known dangers, and the many laws regulating its use and abatement which exist today. ...

Bailey Cowan Heckaman PLLC is filing Mesothelioma and lung cancer cases in Oklahoma on behalf of victims and families devastated by the asbestos exposure. The firm’s lawsuit was filed in Oklahoma County District Court on behalf of a Wilson, OK man ...

In October of 2019, the Food and Drug Administration discovered a trace amount of asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder. Though the product contained only “sub-trace levels” of asbestos contamination, Johnson & Johnson acted with ...