ASBESTOS IN THE NEWS
San Francisco jury awards $4.3M to three families who lost breadwinners to asbestos-related disease

February 23, 2009 -- A San Francisco jury last month ordered a Northern California insulation company to pay more than $4.3 million in damages to the families of three industrial pipe fitters who died of lung cancer caused by asbestos.

The jury found that Plant Insulation Company, formerly a major industrial insulation products and contractor, was 59 percent at fault for the death of one worker who was exposed to asbestos while working at a variety of industrial sites.

The company was also found liable for the deaths of a Sacramento County resident who worked as a pipe fitter at Bay Area oil refineries, and a Sebastopol resident who worked at chemical plants and oil refineries in Contra Costa County.

Asbestos kills . . .

Government sources estimate that in the next decade more than 35,000 people nationwide will be diagnosed with the deadliest form of asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma. This disease is most often the result of industrial workplace exposure to asbestos – and usually contracted through employers’ blatant disregard for the health and safety of their workers.

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