Exxon cited in asbestos suit
The Shadow rip Immortel (ad vitam) move Bongo divx Even though Stanley Morton had been retired from the Newport News shipyard for several years, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, an asbestos-related cancer in April 2006.
Wuthering Heights movie download The Curse divx Throughout his 33-year career as an electrician, Stanley breathed in millions of tiny asbestos fibers. He began feeling sick in late 2005, had a lung removed and was dead by December 2007 at the age of 72. Nancy Morton, Stanley’s widow, is suing oil giant Exxon (who owned some of the ships Morton worked on at the Newport News yard) for negligently causing his death.
A suit filed against a company that owned the ships, instead of supplying parts, is a new twist on asbestos litigation. Most cases are against the parts providers rather than the shipping lines or ship owners.
A Matter of Life and Death Nancy Morton contends that Exxon knew of the risks of asbestos as early as 1937 and didn’t take any steps to prevent them. Her attorney, Bobby Hatten, said Exxon began instituting asbestos regulations at its refineries nationwide in 1937 and taught workers how to avoid the dangers.
He also cited a 1964 Exxon letter in which a company official spoke of the dangers of asbestos, even to those not working directly with the fibers, but the company did not warn workers at shipyards or its own tanker crews.