A Diary Of A Mesowarrior Living With #Mesothelioma #Asbestos Awareness Week, My Video, Talc did have Asbestos in, A Peter Rabbit Film is upsetting children
April 1st-7th has been Asbestos Awareness Week which has now become very global. It is a World Wide problem and has been for many years.
Asbestos has been used for decades as an inexpensive industrial material. It has been recognised for more than 50 years that exposure can cause serious diseases including cancer and asbestosis.
Use of asbestos is now banned in most countries. However, even where use is not allowed, asbestos can still be present in buildings, industrial plants, ships. Etc. Those considered most at risk now are workers who may disturb asbestos materials during repair, maintenance and refurbishment work.
It is therefore essential that the dangers of exposure to airborne asbestos are understood by all those who may come in contact with it, and those who manage such work, with systems in place to protect themselves and others.
Ways to prevent exposure
The big victory though is the result of the J&J Talcum case.
Johnson & Johnson suffered its first trial loss in a lawsuit claiming its talc-based products including Johnson’s Baby Powder contain cancer-causing asbestos, with a New Jersey jury on Thursday ordering J&J and another company to pay $37 million in damages.
The verdict of liability in Middlesex County Superior Court in New Brunswick came as J&J fights thousands of cases claiming its talc products can also cause ovarian cancer. The jury found J&J and another company liable after more than two months of trial.
The lawsuit was brought by New Jersey resident Stephen Lanzo, who said he developed mesothelioma after inhaling dust that was generated through his regular use of J&J talc powder products since his birth in 1972.
Mesothelioma is a deadly form of cancer closely associated with exposure to asbestos. It affects the delicate tissue that lines body cavities, most often around the lungs, but also in the abdomen and elsewhere.
The jury awarded Lanzo $30 million and his wife $7 million in compensatory damages. It found J&J was responsible for 70 percent of the damages and said a unit of France-based Imerys SA , its talc supplier, was responsible for 30 percent.
The jury will return on Tuesday for further proceedings to determine whether to award punitive damages, according to an online broadcast of the trial by Courtroom View Network.
J&J denied the allegations and says Johnson’s Baby Powder does not contain asbestos or cause cancer.
J&J in a statement said it was disappointed but would withhold further comment until the trial’s completion. Gwen Myers, an Imerys spokeswoman, said Imerys plans to appeal and is confident talc did not cause Lanzo’s cancer.
The Lanzos did not respond to requests for comment.
J&J, based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, faces talc-related lawsuits by 6,610 plaintiffs nationally, largely based on claims it failed to warn women about the risk of developing ovarian cancer by using its products for feminine hygiene.
In five trials in Missouri involving ovarian cancer lawsuits, juries found J&J liable four times and awarded the plaintiffs a total of $307 million. In California, a jury awarded a now-deceased woman $417 million.
But in October, a Missouri appellate court threw out the first verdict there for $72 million and a California judge tossed the $417 million verdict. J&J is seeking to reverse the other verdicts.
Asbestos claims are a more recent challenge for J&J. It won the only other asbestos-related trial in November when a Los Angeles Superior Court jury ruled in its favor.
(This story corrects headline to show case was J&J’s first trial loss in an asbestos-related case involving talc, not first loss in talc cancer lawsuit. Corrects paragraph 1 to say both J&J and another company have been ordered to pay $37 mln, not just J&J)
I have played a part in the week as IOSH released my Video that I recorded for the Monday Launch Of No time To Lose Asbestos. 8 am in the morning !!! That’s an Early Start and then we have to shoot off to Manchester on a Virgin train to give our presentation’s at The Greater Manchester Asbestos Support Group. We will be asleep on the train that’s for sure.
ADAO in the US always support Global Asbestos Week and each day a different Mesothelioma Patient is featured. I was honoured to have Day one.
Their week ends up with a Seminar.
A Thomson Lawyer has written about Peter Rabbit which is brilliant as maybe they will take the scene out now.
Is using asbestos a ‘bad lifestyle choice!?’
I took my 7 year old son to see Peter Rabbit over the Easter Weekend at the cinema; we had heard good reviews about it and thought we would give it a go.
Whilst watching the film, the angry farmer McGregor has a heart attack and dies after running around his vegetable garden trying to catch Peter Rabbit for stealing his vegetables. The film goes on to ask was it Peter who had killed him or was it due to his bad lifestyle choices? They decided it was his bad lifestyle choices and nothing to do with Peter! Up come some ‘flashbacks’ of McGregor’s past life and his bad lifestyle choices, including a short clip where McGregor is seen with a large white bucket clearly labelled ASBESTOS and applying it to a wall with no mask to stop him from inhaling the deadly fibres.
Bad lifestyle choice?!
My son said to me “Is that not what you deal with at work mum? How is it a bad lifestyle choice? I thought you said people didn’t know it was dangerous, it doesn’t make sense to me!” I then found myself explaining to him what he already knows – that asbestos is not a bad lifestyle choice and to suggest that it is, is not only wrong but hugely insensitive to all those who have suffered the consequences of exposure! It confused him and I’m sure it will be confusing for many more viewers, which raises concerns.
Asbestos is not a joke, it is an extremely dangerous and harmful substance and under no circumstances should it be joked about. It harms you and can be deadly. This fact quite frankly cannot be forgotten.
We at Thompsons have acted for thousands of clients who have been diagnosed with asbestos related illnesses, through no fault of their own. If our victims knew that asbestos was dangerous and could affect their health, they would not have used the product-it really is that simple!
Why put the part about asbestos in the film? It is unnecessary and raises concerns in some of the young viewers as Peter brags that he killed McGregor. This wasn’t in the book and is not needed as part of the story line.
If you have recently been diagnosed with an asbestos related illness, have been exposed to asbestos or are looking to speak to someone about any concerns you have then ‘Talk to Thompsons’ we have a specialist department who deal with these types of cases and we are here to help you get the compensation you deserve.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/j-j-imerys-must-pay-37-million-case-203248926–finance.html
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