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

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

Long before she joined a major legal case for asbestos victims, Joyce Walder had a bold streak, according to her sister, Judith Hemphill. On a recent Monday in October, walking through the forests of ...

Appeals arguments heard for a case that could impact hundreds of Libby asbestos lawsuits, Missoula County voters will decide ...

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The cleanup of a northwest Montana community where health professionals say hundreds of people have been killed by asbestos exposure entered a new phase Thursday as officials turn their focus to ...

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 (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court determination that a Montana health clinic submitted hundreds of false asbestos claims on behalf of patients. A jury decided last year ...

HELENA, Mont. -- Montana Gov. Judy Martz Thursday endorsed listing Libby as a federal Superfund cleanup site to deal with asbestos contamination linked to 200 deaths in the northwestern Montana mining ...

Dozens of feet of tubing connect Gayla Benefield to her oxygen machine so she can walk from room to room inside her home on the picturesque Kootenai River, surrounded by the Cabinet Mountains. Like ...