I will attempt to tell you the reality of the war, the chase, and its effects. If there had been help, if their had been a bomb shelter, if there had been a reaching hand, if there is any reaching hand I PRAY LORD PLEASE HEAR OUR CRIES. I was engaged, in love and anticipating […]
If you are not currently involved in litigation, nor do you plan to litigate in the future and you care to tell the world about your mold experience, this may be your chance. Simply tell your story in an e-mail and we will lay it out on a website and publish it on the web […]
In 1997 I purchased a home by a lake in Eastern Washington. By the end of 1997 I was sick and didn’t know why. Through circumstances I found out that I had an extreme case of toxic mold in my house. I attempted to remediate the mold in the house but ultimately failed after many […]
My daughter moved into a vacant mobile home about a year ago. She was having a lot of water problems in the bathroom. My brother went there to pull up the old floor and came in contact with stachybotrys he became very ill and was hospitalized for weeks. Even after he was discharged he was […]
I work at Lockheed-Martin in Eagan. The employer has known about a building wide ‘cladosporium’ problem for over a year, and I have been living in an environment where the visible colonies of the mold have grown since the tests ordered by my physician confirmed the cladosporium content was 940 c.f.u.’s per cm. and at […]
My bathroom was remodeled in 1991 and I always noticed a musty smell on the towels in the bathroom. On the floor next to the bathroom, I noticed that the floor covering had changed colors. A contractor removed the sheet rock on the wall and there was a forest of black mold growing on the […]
My name is Brenda Park LPN, and I am employed with Vineland Developmental Center. I have noticed my health has went down hill tremendously in the past 4 years that is when I started working there! I have had bronchitis, pneumonia, sinus infections, respiratory infections, IBS, stomach problems, legs hurt so bad that I can […]
Stachybotrys can infest a House. Does it cause brain damage? Some say ‘Yes’. Workers are now trying to save Brockovich’s house from toxic mold. It is an expensive job. Since the movie bearing her name appeared, everyone knows who Erin Brockovich is: the working mother who traced illnesses in a small California town to groundwater […]
Heyyyy-yo! Ed’s dog is dead–and he’s suing mad. Former Tonight Show sidekick Ed McMahon and his wife, Pamela, have filed a $20 million-plus lawsuit accusing his insurance company and contractors of making a toxic-mold ‘wasteland’ of his Beverly Hills home and leaving him and his wife ‘seriously ill’. Not to mention claiming the life of […]
Your house is supposed to provide you shelter and protect you from the elements. One family says a common building material ruined their home and their health. It’s used in hundreds of thousands of new constructions: synthetic stucco. It’s a material meant to protect a dwelling from water damage. But in the last decade, thousands […]
I have recently moved back to Pittsburgh, PA from Florida and reside in a renovated railroad station which houses up-scale apartments. I live on the top floor of the building. I have lived here about 6 months; over the last 2 months, I have experienced certain symptoms which I did not know to put down […]
I was diagnosed with Wegener’s on Feb. 02, 2004. Since then, I have been on chemo and steroids- mine also started with sinus problems that went into my lungs a kidney specialist was called and he sent my blood work to Stanford University Medical for diagnosis. I was shocked as the only problems I’ve had […]
Ok. Let’s hope this does more good than bad. About a year ago I took my 4 month old baby to the doctor, she was having real bad allergic reactions. She kept breaking out in a red rash in different places on her body, mostly her face. Other symptoms were runny nose, swollen and watery […]
I was exposed to mold in my workplace for 6 months and now have allergies to almost everything I come into contact on a daily basis. I filed a workman’s comp claim only to have it denied and awaiting an appeal. I have documentation on the mold situation, and the types they found from Boelter […]
We have been exposed to toxic mold that made us desperately ill and we nearly lost one child. The insurance company first denied the mold?s existence and then failed to report to us the poisonous levels they detected. Our situation highlights the trauma that can be inflicted on a family if toxic mold is not […]
I am a single parent who gave up a beautiful large apartment in another section of my city and moved into a upper middle class neighborhood closer to work, and rented a townhouse by the lake. The landlord when showing me the townhouse told me that when the homes were built, they installed sump pumps […]
Let me begin by introducing myself. My name is Gina L. and I moved into the apartments at La Venezia in November 2002. We moved out in April 2003. My husband, 3-year-old son and I were very impressed with the spacious apartment we moved into (Apartment 212). We wanted to make it homey and nice. […]
On Sept 5, 2000 I was admitted to Berkshire medical center in Pittsfield Mass. with acute respiratory distress at that time from an unknown source. Shortly after my addition I worsened and an elective intubations was performed and I was placed in intensive care. Several days later I was exuberated and a team of pulmonary […]
I own and operated a food wholesale business in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and have been renting this small 2000 square foot warehouse/office for the last 8 years. My problem with toxic mould started when I did not demand the landlord renovate my bathroom before signing the lease and accepting the terms and conditions. Today, I […]
In 1999 we began the process of replacing our home that was lost in the 1998 flood. We wanted to build a home, but the flood plain administration regulations were so strict we could not find a builder to build for us. We then began to look at manufactured homes; we looked at all the […]
My 6 year old daughter started kindergarten at Sawmillwoods Elementary School in Whiteland, IN. Two weeks after starting school she became ill. Asthma is what the Doctor’s said she had. The school never notified any of the parents there was a mold issue in the school. Then an article in the Daily Journal appeared about […]
My name is Janet Stevens and I am employed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. I am a GS 9 Tech Info Specialist and have been an employee for 16 years. I worked in this flooding moldy basement for eight years then above for three years with holes in the floor and an open freight elevator. […]
I would like to tell you about a recent occurrence (problem) I have just experienced. I was told years ago that I was definitely exposed to mold in a apt in which I was living. An environmental agency, (the president, no less) saw the mold, & told me I needed to move immediately, or I […]
From MOLD: A Mold Property and Personal Injury Litigation Magazine “This mold is everywhere, and when I try to clean it, it moves.” “The mold is alive. It’s eating my bedspread.” “If I stand too close to someone talking on a cell phone or near any towers, I can feel the radio waves going through […]
Hello, my name is Sharon and I live in Georgia. We had moved up here from West Palm Beach, FL, hopefully being able to settle in and plan for our retirement. But obviously things did not work out as we had planned. This is a story that I wouldn’t wish on anybody that would have […]
From 1996 until 2000 I lived with my lover, an Episcopal priest, in the brownstone rectory of his New York City Church. In the spring of 2000 I developed what I thought was sinusitis, violent headaches and fevers. My condition did not respond to antibiotics. I slipped into a coma and was taken by ambulance […]
Please read my story! I am not a writer, or computer savvy. I don’t know how to use spell check either. So please forgive me, and do not judge my lack of skills. I am however, a medical mystery to all the general physicians I have seen (approx 5), and the various Specialists. My hope […]
My husband and I moved down from Portland, Oregon to Waterford, California in December 1998 to open a pet store. My sister found the building and talked with the landowner. She told me that the carpet was in need of being stretched, but other than that the building was in an ideal setting and was […]
I was diagnosed with Wegeners Feb. 2002. Since then, I have been on chemo and steroids. Mine also started with sinus problems that went into my lungs. A kidney specialist was called and he sent my blood work to Stanford University Medical for diagnosis. I was shocked as the only problems I’ve had in the past 10 […]
A nasty mold at the Governor’s Mansion sent South Carolina ‘s first family packing. The building – reopened three years ago after the state spent $5.6 million renovating the downtown Columbia building – has been home to governors since the 1870s and was built as faculty quarters for Arsenal Military Academy in 1856. First lady […]
PINE RIDGE, S.D. – After living in their Pine Ridge Indian Reservation home for 12 years, Jerome High Horse’s family moved out in 2002 because black mold made living conditions unbearable. “It looked like somebody took black paint and started to paint in the corners of the walls and ran it down to the floor,” […]
The monthly mail flier advertising a $99 all-house air duct cleaning service sounded like a good deal to retiree Mary Rees. But it ended up costing her a lot of grief and $600 for mold contamination cleanup that didn’t work – and another $3,725 in an insurance claim to USAA to repair her 2,600-square-foot house’s […]
Like a convict on death row, Frances Prescott spends her life in a gas chamber waiting for the poison to kill her. Red and Frances Prescott’s home in the southern George County community of Basin has been invaded by black mold that is spreading through their ceiling and walls. Some of the airborne mold spores […]
June 06, 2004 We need to tell you our story so that maybe this problem won’t happen to another innocent family like ours. In 1993, we applied to Habitat for Humanity of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania so we could achieve our dream of owning our own home and providing our children with a safe and healthy […]
My daughter moved into a vacant mobile home about a year ago. She was having a lot of water problems in the bathroom. My brother went there to pull up the old floor and came in contact with stachybotrys he became very ill and was hospitalized for weeks. Even after he was discharged he was […]
WASHINGTON – Tiny fungi that live under the Rocky Mountain snowpack get busy reproducing in the winter and may affect global warming, U.S. scientists said yesterday. They said they found a winter wonderland of fungal species, including many new to science, under the snow of a high-altitude Colorado meadow. Unlike most life, which hibernates or […]
Here in the community of Ocean Breeze, several residents feel that both the county and the state have turned a blind eye to their housing complaints. Dozens of people have bought manufactured homes that had a list of serious problems, including faulty thermostats and pipes not being hooked up properly, causing insulation under the homes […]
“The Employer and the Union jointly recognize the importance of maintaining a safe environment. The Employer agrees to comply with all State and Federal OSHA requirements. The Employer agrees to continue present practices regarding floor slats and mats, and to review all new facilities with regard to such present practices.” A Local 681 member complained […]
You may have heard the horror stories of families who buy homes infested with toxic black mold, only to find out it is too late. Now there is a move in Congress to do something about it. This is a landmark piece of legislation that is be introduced Tuesday by Congressman John Conyers, (D) Michigan. […]
Washington, DC – Like the ubiquitous fungi blamed for an insurance crisis in Texas, the issue of toxic-building mold has grown in the nation’s capital. A bill introduced in the House on Thursday is the first national legislation of its kind dealing with the issue of toxic mold and, if passed, would require the Environmental […]
September 12, 2002 – Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) has introduced H.R. 5040: The United States Toxic Mold Safety and Protection Act ("The Melina Bill"). H.R. 5040 has the potential to put to rest the confusion over whether exposure to mold growth in residential, public and commercial buildings causes serious medical conditions such as bleeding […]
Advocates ask that builders, sellers be held accountable by Kris Banks – Staff Writer, Daily TexanOctober 16, 2002 A homeowner advocacy group demanded a "lemon law" for buying homes Tuesday in front of the Texas Capitol. Janet Ahmad, Home Owners for Better Building president, said lack of regulation in the home-building industry and problems with […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released new guidelines for protecting ventilation systems in commercial and government buildings from chemical, biological and radiological attacks. The guidelines provide recommendations that address the physical security of ventilation systems, airflow and filtration, systems maintenance, program administration and maintenance staff training. “These guidelines offer practical advice […]
FORT MYERS, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES)–July 23, 2002–Mold damage claims are on the rise. And judging from recent court activity, so are mold-related lawsuits. Some parties professing to be injured by the invasive spores have received jaw-dropping settlements, spurring a flurry of legislative activity in several states, including Texas, California and Maryland. Industry experts say Florida […]
Austin, TX – “At least one US House Member has only the interest of the insurance industry in mind and wouldn’t know fraud if it bit him”, said Melinda Ballard, President, Policyholders of America, after she testified before a House Subcommittee whose charge is to investigate the growing mold problem plaguing homeowners today. The subcommittee […]
Lubbock, TX – Texas Governor Rick Perry addresses a news conference in a cotton compress warehouse in Lubbock, Texas, 7/24/02, after a coalition of 16 agriculture groups endorsed him in his bid for re-election against Tony Sanchez in November. Republican Gov. Rick Perry and gubernatorial challenger Tony Sanchez, a Democrat, continued to spar Wednesday over […]
Arizona SB 1432 Would create a legislative study group to consider the financial, environmental and health-related effects of indoor commercial and residential mold contamination. SB 1432 Adopted Amendment Introduced and referred to Senate Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment committee, Health committee and Rules committee 2/6/02. Reported favorably from Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment with amendment […]
New legislation being discussed in Lansing ultimately could set standards for toxic mold that don’t exist anywhere in the country. There are no state or federal standards on which molds – or how many mold spores – are dangerous. House Bills 6177 through 6179 could change that. One bill of the three-bill package would require […]
WASHINGTON /U.S. Newswire/ — A new Safety and Health Information Bulletin issued by OSHA today gives recommendations on how to prevent mold growth and how to protect workers involved in the prevention and cleanup of mold. Indoor exposure to mold can cause allergic reactions and asthma attacks in some individuals. “This bulletin offers workers some basic […]
by George Ochenski Come Monday the Montana Legislature convenes for yet another “special session” to balance the state’s budget. Truth be told, there is nothing “special” about these affairs. They are quick, dirty, and usually leave the public confused, dismayed, and disgusted. Unfortunately for all Montanans, the coming debacle promises to fit that mold exactly. […]
 
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