Michael Davis Jr., who purchased the Rock-Tenn paper mill site in Otsego in 2006, was charged in a five-count indictment filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.

By the mid-1960s, investigators like Mt. Sinai’s Irving Selikoff had proved conclusively that asbestos was a cruelly efficient, though slow-acting, killer. Having already found high rates of lung ...

Asbestos--once used in insulation, floor tile, hair dryers, automotive brakes and thousands of other products--is associated with several diseases, including a rare cancer that appears decades ...

But in 2005, as asbestos-related diseases with long latency periods mounted, the company revisited the issue with one aim: to defend lawsuits filed by people like Daniel Stupino, a part-time ...

ASBESTOS PAPER FOR INSULATING.; A Baltimore Inventor Thinks He Has Solved a Difficulty. May 13, 1896 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from May 13, 1896, Page 5 ...

A $3 million jury verdict in favor of a former Westvaco paper mill employee for alleged asbestos exposure from papermaking machines has been reversed by the Court of Special Appeals. The court ...

Additionally, some asbestos products become hazardous only if disturbed -- like removing 1950s-60s era Nicolite paper that was used as an underlayment for cedar shake roofs.

“The community should have been well aware of what was happening.” Exposure to asbestos, a material used as insulation, can cause a variety of diseases, including cancer. Miller, a member of CORD, ...

The Nicolet property, used since the early 1900s to make pipe and boiler insulation and commercial grade asbestos paper, was purchased by O’Neill Properties for $55,500 in December 2001 as a ...

Widely used products that may contain friable asbestos include insulation, acoustical plaster, paper products and spackling compound. Examples of nonfriable materials include siding, floor tiles ...

Q: The home inspector who checked my house reported that the attic insulation is about 6 inches thick, but he didn't say whether it's made of fiberglass, asbestos or cellulite. I am concerned ...