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 ...

W.R. Grace & Co. said Monday it has reached an agreement to resolve current and future asbestos claims against the company, which would allow it to emerge from bankruptcy without further obligations ...

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 ...

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, ...

HELENA, Mont. — BNSF Railway attorneys are expected to argue before jurors Friday that the railroad should not be held liable for the lung cancer deaths of two former residents of an ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The owner of a former vermiculite mine in northwestern Montana that spread harmful asbestos in and around the town of Libby has offered $18.5 million to settle the last of the ...

LIBBY, Mont> — A federal jury on Monday said BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people who were exposed to asbestos decades ago when tainted mining material was shipped through a Montana ...

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- W.R. Grace & Co. has appealed a federal judge's ruling that it must pay the Environmental Protection Agency the full $54.5 million for asbestos cleanup in Libby, along with any ...

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 ...