A consumer advocacy group is calling on Dollar Tree and other retailers to pull a popular brand of crayons they say contains toxic levels of asbestos, a material found to cause mesothelioma and other deadly types of lung cancer.
Timothy R. Ocasek of Cooney & Conway garnered a $2 million-dollar settlement for his client, an electrician who suffered brain trauma in a fall off a ladder while rewiring the fire alarm circuitry at a Chicago Public School.