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July 02, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it is seeking feedback on activities that disturb asbestos and remaining legacy products with the goal of proposing a risk management rule for legacy uses and disposal processes by June 3, 2027.
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July 02, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — As a natural mineral, asbestos cannot be defectively designed, and Union Carbide Corp. had no duty to warn the sophisticated users to which it supplied the raw material, the company says in a motion for partial summary judgment in Delaware court.
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July 02, 2026
HOUSTON — Because a quartet of asbestos claimants allege asbestos-related malignancies and their actions predate the creation of the state's multidistrict litigation (MDL), their cases fall outside the MDL rules and must be remanded to the courts where they were originally filed, a Texas appeals court said.
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July 02, 2026
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — A family on July 1 asked a federal judge in North Dakota for default judgment on damages in the amount of more than $10 million, saying the absent Canadian defendant Atlas Turner Inc.’s failure to challenge a previous default judgment on liability for a man’s mesothelioma left it liable for the entire amount.
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July 02, 2026
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma jury returned a defense verdict on negligence and products liability claims in which the plaintiffs alleged that exposure to asbestos in Johnson & Johnson entities’ talc products caused a woman’s mesothelioma.
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June 30, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A family cherry-picks and misstates Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals precedent, a shipyard company tells a federal judge in Louisiana in urging him to reject the family’s argument that an asbestos damages judgment must be multiplied by 50% under the maximum recovery rule.
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June 26, 2026
MISSOULA, Mont. — BNSF Railway Co. has appealed a federal judge’s order remanding 216 Libby, Mont., asbestos cases that were consolidated for the limited purpose of remand, and in a separate development the judge denied as moot the defendants’ motion for judgment on the pleadings.
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June 25, 2026
ST. LOUIS — Plaintiffs in an asbestos-talc suit urged a Missouri judge not to revoke pro hac vice status for Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles PC attorneys, saying plaintiffs should not have their right to retain counsel of their choosing disturbed by a novel and untimely theory that the counsel coordinated with a former attorney for defendant Johnson & Johnson.
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June 25, 2026
HOUSTON — A Texas federal judge adopted a bankruptcy court’s recommendation that he determine the threshold issue of whether any talc sold by Chapter 11 debtor BMI Oldco Inc. “contained sufficient quantity and form of asbestos to potentially cause mesothelioma or other asbestos-related diseases” before the talc mining company’s bankruptcy case can proceed to the reorganization plan stage.
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June 23, 2026
The following is a listing of plaintiff and defense experts who testified in trials covered by Mealey's Litigation Report: Asbestos since Jan. 1, 2002.
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June 23, 2026
TRENTON, N.J. — The withdrawal of two experts from multidistrict asbestos-talc litigation leaves the plaintiffs unable to offer any expert testimony on causation, Johnson & Johnson entities tell a federal judge in New Jersey in an order to show cause why the entire proceeding should not be dismissed with prejudice.
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June 23, 2026
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota judge entered a $1.78 million judgment against store-brand talc manufacturer Vi-Jon LLC after a jury awarded a couple $10.2 million after the husband was diagnosed with mesothelioma in his forties after decades-long exposure to asbestos in consumer talc products.
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June 23, 2026
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A woman claiming exposure to asbestos while at nursing school received permission from the court to proceed in forma pauperis in her appeal of a ruling allowing attorneys she sued for malpractice to withdraw as her counsel in the case.
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June 23, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California jury awarded three adult children $32 million for their mother’s death from mesothelioma, rejecting last remaining defendant Johnson & Johnson’s arguments that asbestos in automotive parts, cosmetics or exposures while living in Mexico City were the more likely cause of the disease.
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June 23, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A woman’s failure to timely produce expert testimony that asbestos brought home by her father caused her mesothelioma is fatal to her case in light of expert testimony offered against her, a railroad company tells a federal judge in Louisiana.
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June 22, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana dismissed with prejudice all claims in an asbestos suit after granting summary judgment to the defendants when the plaintiff failed to produce any expert testimony.
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June 19, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A woman’s lawsuit alleging that the United States knowingly exposed her husband to asbestos in NASA buildings falls within exceptions to the Federal Tort Claims Act and must be dismissed, a federal judge in Louisiana said.
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June 18, 2026
HOUSTON — A Texas federal bankruptcy judge entered findings of fact, conclusions of law and an order confirming the prepackaged plan of reorganization for cosmetics ingredients producer Miyoshi America Inc. less than two months after the company filed its Chapter 11 petition and the plan, which establishes a $20 million trust to evaluate and pay asbestos personal injury claims.
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June 16, 2026
MIAMI — Johnson & Johnson and a man whose wife died of ovarian cancer after exposure to talc allegedly contaminated with asbestos settled during a retrial of the case, according to court records.
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June 16, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — While acknowledging defendants’ contention that a mesothelioma sufferer lacked the mental capacity to testify about products with which he worked decades ago, a Louisiana federal judge said the cost and delay associated with excluding the man’s affidavit warrants denying the motion to exclude as well as a motion by the plaintiffs to rule on the admissibility of the affidavit.
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June 11, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — Third-party defendants cleared by a jury on claims that they contributed to a man’s mesothelioma told a federal judge in Louisiana that any retrial should be limited to the issue of damages.
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June 09, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana dismissed with prejudice an asbestosis case that featured interplay with a secondary diagnosis of traction bronchiectasis and expert testimony on a “contaminated house” theory after the parties informed the court they had resolved the matter.
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June 09, 2026
NEW YORK — Plaintiffs successfully demonstrated the possibility that Johnson & Johnson consumer talc made its way from New York to the United Kingdom but not the talc from two other defendants, the New York justice overseeing consolidated asbestos litigation said in granting jurisdictional discovery into Johnson & Johnson’s contacts with the state and rejecting the argument that the state court would be an inconvenient forum while dismissing two other defendants on jurisdictional grounds.
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June 09, 2026
LOS ANGELES — The evidence shows that even if a defendant can establish that a woman suffers from what she described as a “doom’s day gene,” the defendant has not eliminated the possibility that asbestos exposure also played a role, a California judge said in denying summary judgment to it.
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June 09, 2026
The following is a listing of plaintiff and defense experts who testified in trials covered by Mealey's Litigation Report: Asbestos since Jan. 1, 2002.