AM Best’s estimate for ultimate net asbestos losses is being maintained at $100 billion, with environmental losses also holding steady for another year at $46 billion, as of year-end 2023 data, ...

A quarter of the UK's biggest mortgage providers refuse to lend to homes fitted with spray foam insulation, a new report ...

Homeowners in the UK are struggling to sell or remortgage their homes due to spray foam insulation. The BBC has found that a ...

Homeowners are struggling to sell or remortgage as some major lenders are rejecting properties with spray foam insulation, ...

Rob Wilson stood on his home’s back deck in Flagstaff, in the U.S. state of Arizona, as the wildfire approached. All was ...

Foam garage door insulation can be split into two categories: spray foam and rigid foam, which is also known as foam core. Cellulose is a low-thermal product that’s made entirely from organic ...

Asbestos has been banned for decades in Europe but its effects are still with us. Cleaning up the carcinogenic fibre from our ageing buildings is a colossal task and it is still being produced and ...

The U.S. Navy is the military branch believed to have the highest rate of asbestos use, with asbestos being utilized on virtually every ship for most of the 20th century. If you worked on any of the ...

The maker of a popular baby powder brand expanded a nationwide recall of the product to nearly 42,000 bottles due to the risk they are contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos, according to the ...

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, asbestos "is a mineral fiber that occurs in rock and soil" that "has been used in a variety of building construction materials for insulation and ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded a baby powder recall alert over possible asbestos contamination. In the initial recall posted on Sept. 19, Dynarex Corporation recalled 62 cases ...

A recall involving Dynacare baby powder potentially tainted with asbestos has been expanded to include additional cases of the product shipped to 35 states and sold online on Amazon, according to ...