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  2. Asbestos and the law - Wikipedia

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    Asbestos-related cases increased on the U.S. Supreme Court docket after 1980 and the court has dealt with several asbestos-related cases since 1986. Two large class action settlements, designed to limit liability, came before the court in 1997 and 1999. Both settlements were ultimately rejected by the court because they would exclude future ...

  3. List of environmental lawsuits - Wikipedia

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    On this page, environmental lawsuit means "a lawsuit where the well-being of an environmental asset or the well-being of a set of environmental assets is in dispute". Also on this page, lawsuit with environmental relevance means "a lawsuit where a non-environmental entity or a set of non-environmental entities is in dispute, but whose outcome has relevance for an environmental asset or for a ...

  4. Asbestos and the law (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Asbestos litigation is the longest, most expensive mass tort in U.S. history, involving more than 8,000 defendants and 700,000 claimants. [1] By the early 1990s, "more than half of the 25 largest asbestos manufacturers in the US, including Amatex, Carey-Canada, Celotex, Eagle-Picher, Forty-Eight Insulations, Manville Corporation, National Gypsum, Standard Insulation, Unarco, and UNR Industries ...

  5. Kelly-Moore out of business after 'cash drain' of asbestos ...

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    The center said over 48,000 cases have been filed against Kelly-Moore seeking compensation for asbestos-related injuries, most of which are painters and other laborers. The company said these ...

  6. Asbestos debris dumped near housing complex [Video] - AOL

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    People in Chelsea, Massachusetts, are outraged after the state recently allowed construction crews to dump a pile of toxic waste just feet from hundreds of homes.

  7. Devil's Dust - Wikipedia

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    Devil's Dust is a two-part Australian television docu-drama mini-series on the ABC which first screened in 2012. Based on journalist Matt Peacock's 2009 book Killer Company, [1] Devil's Dust was researched and developed by producer Stephen Corvini for over two years prior to the series' production.

  8. Profitable companies are dodging asbestos lawsuits. A ... - AOL

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  9. Asbestos bankruptcy trusts - Wikipedia

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    Typically an asbestos plaintiff is exposed to a mixture of products during a thirty-year career in the building trades. It takes between twenty and fifty years from first exposure to the development of asbestos-caused cancer, so work histories, employment, military and social security records are used to help prove the plaintiff's exposure to various asbestos products throughout his or her career.