Blog Posts in January, 2016
As workers continued with the Gateway Arch’s underground museum project in St. Louis, Missouri asbestos piping was exposed. This caused work to stop. Officials for the National Park Service believe that the month-long delay will cost roughly $350,000 ...
What drives a firm to represent clients in difficult litigation matters? What is it that motivates lawyers to go the extra mile and push the limits? For Bailey Cowan Heckaman PLLC, our legacy comes from our passion. It is our passion that helped push ...
According to a recent lawsuit filed by a woman in West Virginia, Boston Scientific, the maker of the Advantage mesh, is accused of using counterfeit pellets in its product. The complaint claims that the manufacturer was initially using Marlex, the ...
First approved by the FDA in 1998, Levaquin® is an antibiotic used to treat infections in the body’s organs and skin. In 2004, there was a recognized association between the active ingredient in Levaquin®, levofloxacin, and a type of nerve damage ...
Turner and Newall, the world’s largest asbestos factory, authorized spying on journalists and other campaigners to prevent them from exposing the dangers of the substance. A feature that recently appeared in The Independent chronicled the story of ...
Three years ago, an explosion in West left 15 people dead and devastated the entire town. Now, federal investigators are warning that various communities throughout Texas are still at risk for the same kind of fertilizer explosion. Throughout the ...
Asbestos at Harvard has prompted at least one mandatory relocation, highlighting the reality that asbestos is hidden and can be virtually anywhere. The cancer-causing substance asbestos was recently detected in some of Harvard’s building materials ...
Britax is recalling more than 71,000 of its infant car seats due to the fact that the handles used to carry the seats can break. In a regulatory filing Britax reported yesterday, the company disclosed that it would be recalling more than 71,000 of ...
On Monday, the House of Representatives passed a bill known as the FACT Act. What this does is make it more difficult for individuals dealing with mesothelioma or other asbestos-triggered conditions to obtain compensation from the corporations liable ...
Elaine Chiu of San Francisco pleaded guilty to concealing asbestos in the Mississippi Queen steamboat from regulators in Louisiana. The federal charge leaves Chiu facing up to two years in prison and a fine totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. ...
A chemical leak and explosion at the PeroxyChem plant in Pasadena, Texas has left one person dead and three more injured. The incident happened at roughly 12:45 p.m. Saturday afternoon when Pasadena officials were called regarding the explosion. ...
At Bailey Peavey Bailey Cowan Heckaman, we are well aware of the risks associated with asbestos. Working with this material is something that is actually pretty common. Unfortunately, if proper safety precautions are not taken, prolonged exposure to ...
A Malvern publishing company was recently found to be in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) by a federal judge. According to reports, the company docked telemarketing workers for essentially all time that they were not making sales ...
A new report by NBC News shows that C.R. Bard, manufacturers of the G2 series of IVC filters, may have known about the device’s potential risk. Yet, they did not take action to have the filters removed from the market. The inferior vena cava (IVC) is ...
