A federal lawsuit is accusing the Gori Law Firm in Edwardsville of coaching its clients to commit perjury and flooding courts in St. Clair and Madison counties with claims it knew were baseless to ...

Billion-dollar companies are using Charlotte’s bankruptcy court to dodge lawsuits from thousands of people who were sickened by asbestos, families and their lawyers say. Using a controversial legal ...

Proponents of a bill to rein in asbestos lawsuits say this could be the year legislation is finally approved on Capitol Hill. Court cases have cost companies billions of dollars, while also helping to ...

EDMONDS — The state has fined an Edmonds asbestos removal company an additional $575,000 for allegedly violating safety protocol and operating without the proper credentials. The Department of Labor ...

While redoing your floors on your own isn't necessarily complicated, there is a dangerous hazard lurking below: asbestos.

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Peter “Lanny” Bergrud, pictured here as a young man, holds his daughter, Amy. Bergrud for years worked with asbestos-containing pipes made by CertainTeed. That, his daughter contends, is why he died ...