Most people think cancer-causing asbestos was banned decades ago. So, if that’s true, why is mesothelioma and lung cancer caused by asbestos products so prevalent today? The fact is, it’s not true. Asbestos remains legal, despite the fact that once it became known as a toxic substance, many companies stopped using it to manufacture goods. …

As if the continued threat of asbestos isn’t enough to worry about, it appears that at least one New Jersey business owner deliberately cut corners when removing it from a former South Jersey Hospital. Frank Rizzo of Parlin, NJ was recently sentenced to three years in prison for using inmates from a halfway house to …

It’s an unfortunate fact of life that some jobs render people more vulnerable to health problems than others. This is particularly true of mesothelioma. While today’s employers and business owners may be more sensitive to the dangers of asbestos and other lung-cancer-causing work conditions, the information just wasn’t available to workers thirty years ago, nor, …

Steven Kaenzig was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2011 and claims his disease is the result of asbestos brought home on his father’s work clothes. It’s been four years but Kaenzig finally has something to celebrate. In fact, the March 27 NJ Appellate Court ruling in favor of sustaining Kaenzig’s $1.6 million verdict against the Charles …