Posts tagged toxic substances

• Conrail Rocked by 2.6 Million Diesel Exhaust Asthma Verdict

  Rick Shapiro | May 08, 2008 7:52 PM | 1 CommentVirginia Beach, VA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  In late April 2008, an Ohio state court jury ordered Conrail to pay $2.6 million to its former locomotive engineer, for negligently causing his diesel exhaust asthma lung disease. Frank Battaglia, worked in the Detroit, Michigan rail yards for Conrail for 23 years as a railroad engineer, before he was eventually diagnosed with diesel exhaust fume asthma.

• Railroad Diesel Exhaust Fume Disease & Pollution: Interview with Dr. Dick Van Steenis, British Authority on Diesel Pollution

  Rick Shapiro | April 18, 2008 10:03 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Diesel exhaust fumes health and safety issues have been pushed to the forefront of health news by passage of new U.S. governmental regulations pertaining to railroad locomotive engines and other...

• Railroad Industry Diesel Exhaust Fume Diseases: Interview With Industrial Hygienest Leonard Vance

  Rick Shapiro | April 17, 2008 9:19 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  The author has been exploring health and safety issues relating to diesel exhaust fume asthma and pollution and personal health and safety, especially in the railroad industry In reviewing several...

• Long Term Railroad Diesel Exhaust Fume Exposure Linked to Asthma Lung Disease and Cancers-Part 1 of Two Reports

  Rick Shapiro | March 25, 2008 10:15 PM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  This article discusses railroad worker long term diesel exhaust fume lung disorders, as well as medical studies relating to diesel fume lung diseases and lung cancers, and another related article in this series covers new federal regulations that are clamping down on excessive railroad locomotive engine diesel fumes, as well as historical railroad knowledge of diesel exhaust lung disease legal cases.

• Radiation and Radioactive Exposures May Have Impacted Railroad Workers

  Rick Shapiro | June 01, 2007 11:50 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Mass Transit (Airline, Cruise Ship, Train, Bus)
  

  Our law firm, Hajek, Shapiro, Cooper, Lewis, and Appleton, has a special concentration in railroad injury matters, as well as all forms of personal injury. We have recently been retained on cases involving railroad workers who have developed cancer and other radiation related illness and disease as a result of exposure to radiation and radioactive substances while working for railroads that...

• Food Poisoning--Doctor's Diagnosis Okay Without Lab Test Proof

  Rick Shapiro | March 05, 2006 10:15 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, VA Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Virginia law has a special "food warranty" that is an obligation on any seller or distributor of foods or consumable or edible products. The warranty provided by such sellers is that the product or consumable is wholesome for human use. The violation of this warranty may impose strict legal liability on the company or person under Virginia law making the person or company responsible for...