The executives mingled over tea and sugar cookies, and the chatter was upbeat. Their industry, they said at the conference in the Indian capital, saves lives and brings roofs, walls and pipes to some of the world’s poorest people. The …
Ron Thacker only worked at Bloomington’s UNARCO plant for a couple of years as a young man in the early 1950s, but it left an indelible imprint on his life – and his lungs. Thacker, now 77, is among more …
A Montana judge has approved a $43 million settlement for more than a thousand asbestos victims who said state officials knew that dust from a mine was killing people but failed to intervene. An estimated 400 people have been killed …
Asbestos-related diseases have been falling for a decade, but warnings from a pair of U.S. insurance giants about new claims raise questions about the industry’s ability to put the scourge behind it. While medical evidence suggests fewer new cases of …