A San Francisco jury has awarded $1.36 million to a terminally ill man who smoked filter-tipped Kent cigarettes in the 1950s that contained asbestos. Lawyers for Don Lenney and his wife, Monica, said ...

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – According to the 2013 Judicial Hellhole report published by the American Tort Reform Association, more law firms are bringing lung cancer cases to America’s courtrooms, ...

It's hard to think of anything more reckless than adding a deadly carcinogen to a product that already causes cancer—and then bragging about the health benefits. That's what Lorillard Tobacco did 60 ...

It’s hard to think of anything more reckless than adding a deadly carcinogen to a product that already causes cancer—and then bragging about the health benefits. That’s what Lorillard Tobacco did 60 ...

Four seamen drowned when the steamer Orinoco sank in Lake Superior near Montreal Island during a severe storm. Other crew members were saved by the crew of a tug, and several made it to the island on ...

Lorillard Inc. has won a federal court case claiming the death of a Baltimore man was caused by asbestos released by filters in Kent cigarettes. The suit was filed by the family of Stanley Lesnick, ...

A former vocational instructor at Topeka Correctional Facility said Tuesday that employees and inmates working on prison building renovations were exposed to pulverized asbestos that hung so thick in ...

PRE-TREATMENT of Seitz-type filters with serum or with digest broth will reduce, to some extent, the often serious losses of virus caused by adsorption during filtration. Solutions of gelatin have ...

Forty years had passed since Norman Braun had smoked the Kent cigarettes with a distinctive blue filter containing asbestos and other materials. It was in March 1993 when he was diagnosed with cancer.

PITTSBURGH — Channel 11 spoke with an asbestos removal company after the recent ban by the EPA on the impact it could have locally. “Chrysotile is more prevalent,” said Jim Kane, owner of Kane ...

After a heated bidding war on EBay, Mark Lanier recently paid $2,125 to win a 1941 naval machinery manual. It sounds like a peculiar collecting hobby, but to Lanier it was serious business. The ...