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Asbestos Death Toll: 10,000 Americans a Year- and Rising/ EWG Action Fund, March 4, 2004
Study Details Fatalities in Each U.S. County - Warns of Congressional Plan to Deny Victims Help

Report: Auto Mechanics Exposed To High Asbestos Levels In Brakes SEATTLE (AP) / November 16, 2000
Auto mechanics are being exposed to dangerous levels of cancer-causing asbestos used to line brakes and are not informed of the risk

2 Texas Juries Award Tyler Pipe Employees $26 Million For Occupational Exposure To Asbestos/ September 1, 2000
Twice in less than a week, a jury here awarded longtime employees of Tyler Pipe Industries Inc. a multimillion-dollar award for occupational injuries from exposure to asbestos at Tyler's iron foundry in Swan, Texas.

Baltimore Jury Awards $10.3 Million To 14 Plaintiffs In Last Round Of Consolidated Asbestos Cases (BALTIMORE)/ August 18, 2000
In the last set of 400 consolidated asbestos cases to be decided in a month-long trial in Baltimore City Circuit Court, a jury on Aug. 9 awarded 14 people suffering from asbestos-related diseases $10.3 million.

New Warning Made About Asbestos (SEATTLE)/ Augiust 14, 2000
Anyone working for any length of time with vermiculite insulation from a W.R. Grace & Co. mine in Montana faces a substantial health risk from asbestos contamination, a federal health official warns.

Shell Oil Worker Awarded $34.1 Million in Cancer Suit, AP Says/ May 21, 2000
An Illinois jury awarded $34.1 million Friday to a man who claimed he got cancer after working with asbestos at a Shell Oil Co. refinery

Asbestos Industry Bailout Bill Declared Dead In Senate/ April 19. 2000
Even as the battle over the asbestos industry bailout bill continues full steam ahead in the House, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) and Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO), the author of the bill, in an extraordinary April 4 colloquy on the floor of the Senate, declared the Senate version of the asbestos bill dead for the year.

3rd Circuit Rejects Attempt To Remand Asbestos Cases/ April 14, 2000
In 1991, when the federal courts decided to transfer all pending asbestos cases to Senior U.S. District Judge Charles R. Weiner in Philadelphia, it seemed that a global mesothelioma financial settlement might one day be possible.

White Lies: Asbestos And The Damage Done (Part I)/ April 10, 2000
On March 9, the U.S. House of Representatives inititated markup of H.R. 1283, The Fairness in Asbestos Compensation Act.

Judge Awards $4.45 Million In Asbestos Case (CLEVELAND)/
February 29, 2000
The family of Dennis Marion, a Bay Village mechanic who died of malignant mesothelioma, a fatal cancer of the lining of lungs caused by prolonged exposure to asbestos-containing products, was awarded $4.45 million by Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Harry A. Hanna.

University of Iowa Students Exposed to Asbestos (IOWA CITY, Iowa)/
February 29, 2000
While workers installed a new fire alarm and sprinkler system in the University of Iowa's (UI) Mayflower Residence Hall, students and staff members may have been exposed to small amounts of asbestos.

Nationwide Study Of Asbestos To Begin/ February 17, 2000
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced yesterday that it will open a nationwide investigation of asbestos in consumer products, which includes attic insulation.

U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Fibreboard Global Class Action Settlement (TOLEDO, Ohio)/ June 23, 1999
Owens Corning announced today that the United States Supreme Court has overturned the global class mesothelioma financial settlement of all asbestos personal injury claims against its wholly owned subsidiary, Fibreboard Corporation.

Court Rejects $1.5 Billion Settlement In Asbestos Class-Action Lawsuit (WASHINGTON) The Supreme Court rejected a $1.5 billion class-action asbestos settlement Wednesday, ruling that the 1993 accord unfairly excluded some potential plaintiffs.