PITTSBURGH – A longtime Pittsburgh school librarian and teacher now afflicted with mesothelioma has sued the city’s board of education, claiming its negligence in failing to remediate asbestos led her to develop the serious ailment.
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Defunct Shipyard Trying To Avoid Asbestos Deal, Court Told
Law360 (February 18, 2021, 4:08 PM EST) A Pennsylvania man seeking to enforce an asbestos settlement with Dravo Corp. said Thursday he didn t need a state court s approval to be paid, because a court order requiring the judge to sign off on payments came weeks after the deadline for the defunct shipyard to pay him.
John R. Kane of Savinis Kane & Gallucci, representing plaintiff Paul Weakland, argued that Dravo had signed off on the confidential settlement amount in May and had paid off more than a dozen other plaintiffs with identical settlement language, but the company was insisting that a July order officially dissolving the company and.