A panel of judges at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared skeptical of plaintiffs’ claims that BNSF Railway is ...

Decades after asbestos contamination was discovered in Libby, Montana, families and courts are still grappling with the health impacts.

Long before she joined a major legal case for asbestos victims, Joyce Walder had a bold streak, according to her sister, Judith Hemphill.

Asbestos-containing vermiculite from the Grace mine was used as insulation in millions of houses across the U.S. In Libby, contaminated waste from the mine was unwittingly used by many residents as a ...

The future of Libby’s CARD Clinic has never looked more bleak. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office acknowledged Wednesday that it served a writ of execution on the Center for Asbestos Related Disease, ...

Jurors in the W.R. Grace & Co. criminal trial on Thursday heard testimony from a toxicologist who oversaw a chest X-ray study among a group of Libby miners. The study, which was commissioned by Grace ...

MISSOULA - W.R. Grace & Co. and three former executives were acquitted Friday of federal charges that they knowingly allowed human exposure to asbestos in Libby, the northwestern Montana town near a ...

LIBBY – Federal officials anticipate finishing by late 2014 a risk study to guide the cleanup of asbestos-contaminated Libby, after a panel of scientists backed draft results that say even a minuscule ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – A proposed standard for federal cleanup of asbestos contamination in a Montana town concludes that even a tiny amount of the material can lead to lung problems _ a benchmark far ...

WASHINGTON -- Libby residents would receive special treatment in a bill that aims to stanch the flood of lawsuits related to asbestos exposure. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up ...

LIBBY — They're getting ready for the Asbestos Health Fair in this old mining town. Posters promise ‘‘Door Prizes!!'' and ‘‘Blood draw to participate in ongoing research!'' Companies that sell home ...

A federal appeals court is hearing arguments over whether a Texas company can be held liable for the deaths of two Montana asbestos victims.