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Senate Panel Agrees to Increase Size of Asbestos Trust

Senators agreed yesterday to increase to as much as $153 billion a proposed trust fund that would end all asbestos lawsuits and instead pay asbestos victims from a set schedule based on their diseases. The agreement, for an additional $45 billion in financing, could help win support from Democratic lawmakers, increasing the likelihood that the trust will become law. But a major obstacle to the creation of the trust remained last night, as senators continued to disagree over the size of payments to victims. Democrats have said that the payments proposed in the legislation are inadequate and are less than

Lawyers Silent on Possible Asbestos Trust

Plaintiffs' lawyers are not usually a meek lot. But they seem to have lost their voice in the debate over a national trust to end all asbestos lawsuits, which might cost them tens of billions of dollars in attorneys' fees over the next 30 years. The trust still faces many hurdles, with companies and insurers offering to put up about $90 billion, and unions and lawyers saying much more is needed. But after another productive negotiating session overseen by Senate Judiciary Committee staff members yesterday, people on all sides of the debate are increasingly optimistic that an agreement is closer

James Hardie shirking moral obligations: Combet

A special fund set up by the James Hardie Company to pay its asbestos victims seems well short of the what it needs to be to look after many thousands of future sufferers of asbestosis and mesothelioma. As a result, the trustees of this fund are worried they could be personally liable in coming years for not holding back enough money to look after future victims. This could lead to the fund - known as the Medical Research and Compensation Foundation - being frozen or the payments to existing victims being severely reduced. To stop this, this Friday the trustees will ask the

Cash in now before your home is worthless

W I'm also a pensioner and lived in my last street for 63 years before I moved home. One has to accept you cannot live in the past and have to accept change and move on. Mrs Taylor has received a very generous offer from St Monica Trust. The quality of sheltered hous- ing is very high and a lot of pen- sioners would jump at the offer. In a modern flat her quality of life would be better, much easier to manage and maintain, plus the social life these flats offer. Decorating, heating and main- tenance bills are all

Experts Say Fear of Asbestos Exceeds the Risk in Schools

The decision to delay the opening of New York City's schools while they are inspected for asbestos was based more on a need to reassure fearful parents than on any estimate of health risk in this situation, health experts and school officials say. There is no question that asbestos inhaled over a long period in significant quantities can cause cancer or lung disease. But the health risks posed by a few days, or even months, of attendance in schools with asbestos where the exposure could be limited are negligible, they said -- less than the statistical likelihood of developing AIDS