Four Ways the Affordable Care Act Can Help With Mesothelioma Treatment
If you need mesothelioma treatment, the Affordable Care Act may be a way to help you get the care you need now and for the future. Unless of course, the foes of providing health care for all Americans succeed in taking it away. As of this writing, the Affordable Care Act also known as the […]
Read MoreCoping With Asbestos Exposure: Advice to the Residents of Libby, Montana
Harmful asbestos exposure from a now-closed vermiculite mining operation has caused the rural town of Libby, Montana to become a major crisis in both public and environmental health in the U.S. On November 18, 1999, writer Andrew Schneider of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer broke the story revealing there had been hundreds of illnesses and deaths in […]
Read MoreAsbestos Industry Affiliation Gets Scientist Rejected As Possible Head of French Public Health Agency
If you’ve been exposed to asbestos, that means that you’ve been lied to. You were assured that the materials you were working with or the place where you worked or lived was safe. You were not told that you were being exposed to asbestos which could cause you to develop a fatal disease called mesothelioma […]
Read MoreOutraged Scientists Protest Asbestos Industry Influence
Here at Kazan Law, we obtain justice for our clients who have been exposed to asbestos and have developed mesothelioma. Just last week we again were able to win a big verdict for clients against a big corporation called Pneumo Abex. We win against the asbestos industry because we are good at what we do […]
Read MoreKazan Law Ranks #2 in Million Dollar Verdicts of 2013
I am proud to announce that our asbestos law firm has been recognized for having the second highest ranking for a product liability verdict in the important annual California’s Million Dollar Verdicts list published by the authoritative source of California legal news The Recorder. This victory was the eighth highest among all verdicts awarded in California […]
Read MorePneumo Abex Corporation – A History of Asbestos Death and Disease
When I tell people that I am an attorney who seeks justice for those who have been exposed to asbestos, some people react with surprise. “Exposed to asbestos?” they ask. “Does that still happen? Is anyone exposed to asbestos anymore?” Sadly yes. Thousands of people have been exposed to asbestos in the decades since it […]
Read MoreScientist Secretly Associated with Asbestos Industry May Help Weaken Asbestos Laws
Creating asbestos laws depends on rigorous honest scientific information. In order for asbestos laws to protect people, lawmakers need reliable scientific evidence about the harm asbestos exposure does to people exposed to this highly toxic substance. New stricter asbestos laws and better regulations regarding workplace and product safety to prevent asbestos exposure often hinge on […]
Read MoreKazan Law Helps to Fund Public Justice Attorney Leah Nicholls
Giving back is one of our guiding principles at Kazan Law. Because we work with mesothelioma patients and their families, much of our giving back goes to mesothelioma research. However, helping to fund research for new treatments and cures for mesothelioma is just part of the story for us. We also believe in giving back […]
Read MoreJury Awards $11 Million in Asbestos Wrongful Death Lawsuit
An Alameda County, California jury returned an $11 million verdict in an asbestos wrongful death suit (Emily Bankhead, Tammy Bankhead, and Debbie Bankhead Meiers v. ArvinMeritor, Inc., et al., Alameda County Superior Court Case No. RG12632899) against Pneumo Abex LLC on January 15, 2014. Kazan Law partner David McClain represented Emily Bankhead, Tammy Bankhead, and […]
Read MoreChevron Punished for Misconduct in Asbestos Exposure Case
Yesterday I wrote about the order Kazan Law obtained punishing Union Oil for not producing its corporate witness to testify about its past wrong-doing toward asbestos victims. On the same day as Judge Jo-Lynne Q. Lee of the Alameda County Superior Court issued that order, she also punished Union Oil’s parent company, Chevron, for similar […]
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