Category: Asbestos

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 ...

The United States is one of the few developed countries in the world that does not ban asbestos outright, and in recent years, the E.P.A. has even taken additional steps to roll back asbestos protections. That may soon change, however: The U.S. Ho ...

The devastating health hazards associated with asbestos have been recognized since the early 20th century. Thanks to landmark publications documenting the link between asbestos exposure and cancer in the 1960s, that information became more wides ...

Attorneys General from 14 states and the District of Columbia have petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to better regulate corporations in the asbestos industry and strengthen reporting requirements about the products they import ...

The past few days have not been easy for Johnson & Johnson, the multi-national corporation known for its pharmaceutical and consumer products, and most notoriously for its Baby Powder. That’s due in large part to the release of an investigative ...