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Asbestos: A Final Chapter?

by Matt Miller, originally published in The Deal.com

Absestos Firm Pins Hope to an RV off eBay

Simona Farrise, LLM, is scheduled to deliver opening statements in the Alameda County Superior Court trial Price v. Warner, RG06254616.

DaimlerChrysler Launches Dr. Gag Campaign

DaimlerChrysler moved for a gag order to stop Oakland law firm Kazan, McClain, Abrams, Fernandez, Lyons, Farrise & Greenwood from fielding calls from the press, including Legal Pad’s sister publication The Recorder.

Taking care of personal matters during a mesothelioma lawsuit

A frank discussion about some steps that victims of asbestos-caused disease might want to consider taking.

A pack in your pocket and a cigarette in your mouth

Back in 1980 The Firm filed what proved to be the first case in which an individual successfully sued and collected damages from both the asbestos and tobacco industries.

Testimony by Steven Kazan to the U.S. Congress House of Representatives, Judiciary Committee, February 5, 1998, about the Proposed Tobacco Settlement:

  • » Statement of Steven Kazan
  • » Summary of Steven Kazan's testimony
  • List of Exhibits to the testimony of Steven Kazan
    • » Exhibit A: Curriculum Vitae of Steven Kazan
    • » Exhibit B: Medical Aspects of Asbestos and Tobacco
    • » Exhibit C: Chart, "Relative risk of dying of lung cancer for smoking and nonsmoking asbestos workers and smoking and nonsmoking control group members," from The Health Consequences of Smoking: Cancer and Chronic Lung Disease in the Workplace, A Report of the Surgeon General, 1985, p.218.
    • » Exhibit D: R.J. Reynolds "Son of a bitch" memo, cited in Haines v. Liggett Group Inc., 814 F.Supp. 414 (D. N.J. 1993)
    • » Exhibit E: Statement of the Asbestos Victims of America
    • » Exhibit F: Statement of the International Association of Heat & Frost Insulators & Asbestos Workers
    • » Exhibit G: Statement of the Alliance for a Fair Tobacco Settlement