Asbestos Settlement Reached for Vermont Mine

A legal settlement allowing for the cleanup and monitoring on the nation’s largest former chrysotile asbestos mine and mill helps raise awareness of the prevalence of asbestos in society, says a New York personal injury attorney who concentrates in asbestos litigation.

“The cleanup of the Vermont asbestos group mine site is long overdue,” said Joseph W. Belluck, a partner at the New York law firm of Belluck & Fox, LLP, which handles asbestos-related injury cases. “Public access to the site should be controlled immediately, and runoff from the site stopped to protect the public from exposure.” Read more