Several Minnesota state senators are calling for the firing of the state’s health commissioner for failing to release information about an increase in mesothelioma deaths among miners. The senators called on Gov. Tim Pawlenty to fire health commissioner Diane Mandernach for failing to disclose the results of a study into mesothelioma cases among workers in the state’s “Iron Range.”
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A Texas man has filed a mesothelioma lawsuit in Illinois against more than 100 corporations who he claims caused him to be exposed to asbestos. Allen Donely claims that he suffered asbestos exposure in the workplace and also from fibers carried home on his father’s clothing.
Donely’s father worked as a painter and auto body repairman. According to the mesothelioma…

A new study by an advocacy group for asbestos diseases says that younger patients and those with no history of asbestos exposure are being diagnosed with diseases like mesothelioma in increased numbers. The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) says that women, patients under 40 and those who have never worked around asbestos represent an increased proportion of those diagnosed with…

A woman from Minnesota has filed a mesothelioma lawsuit in Illinois against 72 defendant corporations. Lonna Morrison alleges that asbestos particles carried home from work on her husband’s clothing caused her to receive a mesothelioma diagnosis earlier this year.…

Reports of more than 50 recent mesothelioma cases among mining workers in Minnesota have prompted the state legislature to call for new investigations into the link between mesothelioma and on-the-job exposure to hazardous materials. Two studies proposed by the Minnesota House of Representatives would examine whether exposure to taconite dust could lead to a mesothelioma diagnosis in mining workers.…