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2. 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.

3. 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 ...

4. Asbestos and the law - Wikipedia

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   In their complete statement and recommendation to NHRC they have clearly expressed their concern: "White asbestos (chrysotile asbestos) is implicated in so many studies with the following diseases: Mesothelioma (cancer of pleura), Lung Cancer, Peritoneal Cancer, Asbestosis, and is also considered as a cause for Ovarian Cancer, Laryngeal Cancer ...

5. Furthering Asbestos Claims Transparency Act of 2015

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   The Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency (FACT) Act of 2015 (old bill number- H.R. 526, now Section 3 of H.R. 1927) is a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressman Blake Farenthold that would require asbestos trusts in the United States to file quarterly reports about the payouts they make and personal information on the victims who receive them in a publicly ...

6. California utility faces billions in claims for fire damage ...

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   By Tom Hals (Reuters) - Victims of the Los Angeles wildfires, likely the costliest in U.S. history, are seizing upon a unique California legal doctrine that allows them to collect from their power ...

7. Baron & Budd, P.C. - Wikipedia

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   Baron & Budd, P.C. is an American plaintiffs' law firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. [1] Opponents of mass tort litigation have criticized the firm for the zealousness with which it represents its clients, and for the political activities of some of its attorneys.

8. Will California homeowners relocate or rebuild? Both are costly

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   Tens of thousands of California residents will be forced to decide whether to permanently relocate or face construction bills after a wildfire crisis that’s weakened California’s insurance.

9. 17 Once-Loved Grocery Stores That Are Gone Forever - AOL

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   A&P. Perhaps one of the best-known defunct grocery store chains, A&P, or the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, traces its roots back to 1859, beginning as a mail-order tea business in New York ...