mesothelioma attorney utah

mesothelioma attorney utah

Mesothelioma is a serious lung disease in which the cells of the mesothelium (membrane of the lung) become abnormal, divide and multiple without control, resulting in cancerous tumors.
Many workers at Utah's shipyards, powerhouses, plants and construction sites were exposed to asbestos. We represent workers in Utah (UT) that have been diagnosed with mesothelioma and lung cancer. We are familiar with the most common New York work sites, and the products used at these sites. Even if you were not exposed at work, our mesothelioma attorneys will fully investigate your case to determine the likely sources of your exposure to asbestos.
The Utah companies that manufactured, sold and installed asbestos products had extensive knowledge of the deadly hazards of asbestos as early as 1920. These companies did not warn of the risks or protect workers. The result is that many have unnecessarily and tragically contracted mesothelioma.
Mesothelioma can be a difficult disease to understand, and if you or a loved one have been diagnosed, you are certain to have numerous questions. If you have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, please contact our lawyers - we can help you find answers.


Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that is almost always caused by previous exposure to asbestos. In this disease, malignant cells develop in the mesothelium, a protective lining that covers most of the body's internal organs. Its most common site is the pleura (outer lining of the lungs and chest cavity), but it may also occur in the peritoneum (the lining of the abdominal cavity) or the pericardium (a sac that surrounds the heart).
Most people who develop mesothelioma have worked on jobs where they inhaled asbestos particles, or have been exposed to asbestos dust and fiber in other ways, such as by washing the clothes of a family member who worked with asbestos, or by home renovation using asbestos cement products. Unlike lung cancer, there is no association between mesothelioma and smoking. If you, or a family member, have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, one of the most important steps you can make is to contact medical professionals who are trained in and experienced with the latest mesothelioma treatments. While there is currently no known cure for mesothelioma, medical researchers and scientists around the country are working with patients through clinical trials to develop innovative and improved treatments.
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Most mesothelioma victims were exposed to asbestos in the workplace and were never told of its dangers or given proper protective gear. The great tragedy of mesothelioma is that it was preventable. Many of the corporations that manufactured and profited from the sale of asbestos-containing products were aware of the hazards of asbestos. These companies did not warn of the risks or protect workers. It is their legal duty to know about about their products, to test them for any potential hazards. If a potential hazard does exist, the company has a responsibility to warn workers of the hazards. In many cases, they hid the knowledge they had in order to protect themselves from liability or having to find a new business model. The result is that many workers have unnecessarily developed mesothelioma.

Most Expensive Gold

If you think all gold is the same, think again. Scotgold, an Australian mining company, has recently purchased the Cononish mine in Tyndrum, a small village in Scotland, which produces the most expensive gold in the world—Scottish gold.

A ring made of Scottish gold
from the Scottish Gold Collection.

Scottish gold is heavily valued for its yellow color, rarity and the back-breaking sluicing process used to gather it. The expensive gold’s price can be more than five times that of normal gold. The Cononish mine was approved in 1996 for the mining of 25,000 ounces of gold per year. Unfortunately, a steady decrease in the price of gold shelved the project for the ten years before Scotgold bought the mine.
One important work of Scottish gold is the Crown of Scotland, part of the Honours of Scotland. The Honours are the oldest set of royal regalia in the United Kingdom. The Crown itself was made in 1540 for King James V.
The world’s most expensive gold is currently valued at around $1400 per ounce.

M5 motorway wrong-way driver Deborah Hunt jailed

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CCTV cameras captured Hunt driving the wrong way on the M5

A woman who drove the wrong way for 23 miles on the M5 in Somerset has been jailed for nine months.

Deborah Hunt, 43, from Langport, drove north on the southbound carriageway of the motorway in July, from Bridgwater towards Weston-super-Mare.
She was twice over the drink-drive limit and had no insurance, Bristol Crown Court was told.
Hunt pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, driving under the influence of alcohol and without insurance.

Deborah Hunt was told it was "unbelievably fortunate" no-one had died as a result of her actions

She was also banned from driving for 15 months and will be required to take an extended driving test.
She wept in the dock as Judge Mark Horton said he would be failing in his public duty if he did not jail her immediately for so serious an offence.
Judge Horton said it was "unbelievably fortunate" no-one had been killed or injured by her as she drove at 60mph in the dark after 23:00 BST.
The court heard that Hunt, an unemployed former financial adviser, was suffering from alcoholism and stress caused by her unemployment.
She is also fighting her ex-husband for custody of their children.
Hunt joined the motorway at junction 24 and briefly headed south before doing a U-turn and driving north.
Caused 'terror' She drove along the outside lane of the motorway before eventually coming to a halt on the hard shoulder.

Deborah Hunt was lucky not to have killed someone or herself”

End Quote Supt Ian Smith Avon and Somerset Police

She was found by police near junction 21 on the hard shoulder struggling to restart the engine of her partner's Peugeot 806.

Judge Horton said Hunt had caused "terror" to other motorists.
"You risked causing massive loss of life and huge destruction of property," he said.
"You suffer from a severe illness, alcoholism is a severe illness.
"It is tragic in one sense that society has forgotten, in its obsession with the damage caused by drugs, how much more damage is caused by alcohol.
"It is clear that the combination of the stress and alcoholism you have suffered created an extremely dangerous position, culminating in this offence.
"I would be failing in my duty if I did not reflect the seriousness of what you did by imposing an immediate custodial sentence."
Supt Ian Smith from Avon and Somerset Police said: "Deborah Hunt was lucky not to have killed someone or herself.
"Drink driving is in itself an inherently dangerous act but to drive on a motorway contrary to the flow of traffic is an outrageously perilous act that could have resulted in the most catastrophic of consequences.
"What makes this more appalling is the lack of regard she has shown in terms of the consequences of her criminal actions that may have resulted in her own death or serious injury."

US drops to fifth in WEF global competitiveness ranking

The US has slipped another notch down the global competitiveness rankings to fifth place

The US economy has declined in an annual study of global competitiveness for the third year in a row, falling from fourth place to fifth.

The World Economic Forum says economic problems, falling trust in its politicians and government inefficiency contributed to its fall.
Switzerland topped the table, followed by Singapore and then Sweden. Finland jumped from seventh to fourth.
The survey is compiled using public data as well as executive opinion.
The WEF says the report is designed to identify advantages and impediments to national growth in order to offer a benchmarking tool to both the public and private sectors as well as others.
Northern and Western Europe dominate the top 10, with Japan, in ninth place, the only other Asian economy among the leaders.
The UK has moved up to 10th place from 12th last year.
Germany was ranked at sixth place, the second-highest in the eurozone behind Finland.
France fell three places to 18th, while deficit-battling Greece was placed 90th out of 142.
Little headway for China Although the report pointed to the shift in fortunes from developed countries to developing, saying that competitiveness in advanced economies has stagnated over the seven years since the WEF began compiling it, emerging markets made little headway up the rankings.

Global top 10 (previous year in brackets)

1: Switzerland (1)
2: Singapore (3)
3: Sweden (2)
4: Finland (7)
5: United States (4)
6: Germany (5)
7: Netherlands (8)
8: Denmark (9)
9: Japan (6)
10: United Kingdom (12)
Source: World Economic Forum

China, the world's second biggest economy, only ranked in 26th place for competitiveness.

Among the other leading emerging markets of Brazil, India and Russia, none were in the top 50.
Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the WEF, said the survey had discovered a glimmer of hope for the global economy: "After a number of difficult years, a recovery from the economic crisis is tentatively emerging, although it has been very unequally distributed: much of the developing world is still seeing relatively strong growth, despite some risk of overheating."
However, he went on to say that widespread problems persisted: "Most advanced economies continue to experience sluggish recovery, persistent unemployment and financial vulnerability, with no clear horizon for improvement."
The report uses 12 categories to assess a country's ranking: institutions, infrastructure, macroeconomic environment, health and primary education, higher education and training, goods market efficiency, labour market efficiency, financial market development, technological readiness, market size, business sophistication and innovation.

IHOP shooting: Nevada gunman kills four in diner

The police and FBI descended on the restaurant on Carson City's main road

A gunman wielding an AK-47 assault rifle has killed four people at a pancake restaurant in the Nevada state capital Carson City, officials say.

Six others were wounded in the attack at the International House of Pancakes chain at 09:00 (16:00 GMT).
Three of the four people killed were National Guardsmen in uniform, with several other Guards injured.
The suspect, named by police as Eduardo Sencion, 32, then shot himself and died later at a hospital in Reno.
Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong said Sencion had no known connection to the military and no known reason to attack the National Guard.
'Petrified' Nevertheless, police said that once he entered the restaurant he took aim and shot every National Guard member in uniform.

Special Agent Patrick Turner, spokesman for the FBI Nevada office in Las Vegas, said that seven people had been wounded. One of the wounded later died of her injuries in hospital.
The police and FBI descended on the restaurant in South Carson Street, also known as US 395, the city's main route.
Witnesses said a man with a rifle pulled up outside the IHOP, shot at a man on a motorcycle and then walked inside the restaurant.
A local restaurant owner told the Associated Press he tried to shoot the attacker with his own weapon, but he entered the pancake restaurant before he had a chance to take aim.
"But when he came at me, when somebody is pointing an automatic weapon at you - you can't believe the firepower, the kind of rounds coming out of that weapon," said Ralph Swagler, who owns Locals BBQ & Grill.
The owner of a nearby diner told the Reno-Journal Gazette that the man had left after several minutes and continued firing in the nearby shopping centre.
Gigi Lee Tzow, an insurance agent, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper that she heard the shooting and saw a young man who may have been an IHOP employee run for cover.
"It sounded like a machine-gun," she said. "It was going off for a long time.
"Then there was a second round of firing, and then stopped.
"A kid ran up and hid behind the pillar in front of my store. He seemed petrified. I called 911 and locked my door."
The pancake restaurant is located some four miles (7km) from a National Guard base, according to to reports.
One Nevada National Guardsman expressed shock and sadness at the shooting.
"It's hard to believe something like this would happen to really good people," Specialist Lee Amato, 33 told AP.
"It's mind-boggling and hard to comprehend."

Texas wildfires torch 1,000 homes

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Dozens of wildfires raging in rain-starved Texas are now reported to have engulfed more than 1,000 homes.

The biggest of the blazes - 16 miles (26km) wide - in rural Bastrop County, is burning out of control for a third day, having destroyed 600 homes.
Two people were reported to have died in the Bastrop blaze, a local sheriff said, amid hopes for calmer winds to help control the fires.
Texas has been suffering its worst drought since the 1950s.
Schools closed Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday, Texas Governor Rick Perry said more than 100,000 acres (40,470ha) had been scorched by at least 57 wildfires in Texas over the past week.
More than 1,000 homes had been burned over the past week, added Texas emergency management chief Nim Kidd.
On Monday, officials said about 500 homes had been destroyed.

Bastrop County Sheriff Terry Pickering said two people had died in the Bastrop fire, in addition to two people who died in east Texas on Sunday.
The National Weather Service said that winds had dropped early on Tuesday to 5mph - compared with 30mph a day earlier - and were expected to remain calm for the rest of the day.
Texas Forest Service spokeswoman Victoria Koenig said the forecast was encouraging for firefighters who have found it almost impossible to contain the wind-whipped flames.

The Bastrop county fire has been leaping from tree to tree at speeds of up to 60mph, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.

About 5,000 people have been forced to leave their homes because of the Bastrop fire and hundreds have taken refuge in emergency shelters.
Gina Thurman, an evacuee at a Catholic Church that is being used as a shelter around Bastrop, choked back tears as she told the Associated Press: "Waiting is the most frustrating thing.
"You're sitting there and you don't know anything but your house is probably burning."
Nearly 600 of the homes that have been destroyed are in Bastrop, said the Texas Forest Service.
Schools were closed on Tuesday in that county because of the fire.
'Stunning losses' On Tuesday, Gov Perry visited West Austin to survey the damage.
"The magnitude of these losses are pretty stunning," Gov Perry said. "We've got a lot of Texans living in shelters now."
Earlier, Mr Perry cut short presidential campaigning to return to the state, saying the next 48-72 hours would be crucial in the battle against the conflagration.
The Republican White House hopeful said he was unsure if he would be attending a televised presidential debate on Wednesday in California, because of the disaster.
Across the state, firefighting crews are straining to refill at lakes and rivers affected by the long drought. More than 250 firefighters were on the ground in Bastrop alone.
A small number of firefighters have been treated for heat-related issues, officials said.
"There's practically a fleet of aircraft in the air," said Jan Amen, a Forest Service spokeswoman.
"Problem is, we have to share them with other fires because there's so many burning in the area."
A blaze in east Texas killed a 20-year-old woman and her baby daughter on Sunday before it was extinguished.
Texas has been plagued by wildfires since the end of last year, the result of a continuing drought that has caused an estimated $5bn (£3bn) of damage to the state's agricultural industry.
Since December, 3.5m acres in Texas have been claimed by wildfires, an area about the size of the state of Connecticut, say state officials.