The lawsuit alleged that Pneumo Abex LLC and Honeywell International Inc. and their corporate predecessors knew of the dangers of asbestos and failed to warn their employees and customers of the hazards.
UNARCO also operated an asbestos plant in Paterson NJ from 1942 through November, 1954. It produced asbestos pipe covering and textile material for US Navy ships and and others. The Paterson NJ group of workers, and their families, became the cohort group for sentinel studies conducted by the late Irving J. Selikoff, MD (1915-1992), who linked asbestos exposure to various disease including: asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma. Those studies ultimately lead to a world renown conference in 1964 sponsored by The New York Academy of Sciences.
Asbestos is still mined in Canada. The use of asbestos in the United States has yet to be banned in the United States.
Disease caused by asbestos has resulted in an epidemic of disease and resulting massive amounts of workers' compensation occupational exposure claims and civil actions. Asbestos litigation has been deemed "The Longest Running Tort in American History."
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