In the spring of 2005, Georgia-Pacific Corp. found itself facing nearly $1 billion in liability from a product it hadn’t made in nearly three decades: a putty-like building material, known as joint ...

OTSEGO, MI – The former owner of the Rock-Tenn paper mill site has been charged in a five-count indictment accusing him of violating the federal Clean Air Act. The indictment, which was filed Friday ...

The defendants did little to dispute evidence that the hazards of working with asbestos were well known PORTLAND — December 22, 2014 —A Portland jury has awarded $3.96 million to the family of a ...

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Daniel Stupino with his wife, Anna, daughter Dana and son Daniel. Stupino died last year of mesothelioma, a cancer almost always linked to asbestos exposure. He blamed his illness on exposure to ...