It-s been decades since asbestos first made headlines as a deadly workplace hazard. Some 200,000 lawsuits are currently pending, and the numbers keep rising every year. Two thousand people a year are ...

Jessica Burgoyne, leveraging a deep background in research methods and a passion for legal issues, distills complex legal concepts into accessible insights. With over 100 published articles, her work ...

WASHINGTON -- Pushed by the White House and big insurers, the Senate is preparing to consider legislation that would create a $114 billion trust fund to compensate workers made sick by asbestos. But ...

WASHINGTON - Sponsors of a sidelined bill for a $140 billion fund for asbestos victims are vowing to revive it, but it's uncertain when — or if — Senate leaders will find time to reconsider the ...

A bill proposed by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that would set up a $140 billion trust fund to compensate people sickened by exposure to asbestos came under sharp attack from both ...

The creation of a trust fund to compensate the victims of asbestos-related disease should be a high priority of Congress this year. As a first step, the Senate Judiciary Committee should vote today to ...

Defendant companies and their insurers remain unable to agree with unions and trial lawyers on a funding level and a few other key issues in a proposed asbestos trust fund, so Congress may have to ...

American International Group Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg said Monday that a Senate bill to create a trust fund of at least $108 billion to compensate asbestos victims ...

WASHINGTON — As a child in Montana, Mike Switzer played around the local vermiculite mine, swinging off a rope into dusty piles of insulation and pushing toy cars through asbestos-laden dust in nearby ...

Senators have blocked a final vote on an asbestos bill that would have created a private fund to compensate victims of asbestos. Here's an update on two major healthcare issues here in Washington. The ...

SYDNEY, April 23 (Reuters) - Building materials group James Hardie Industries NV , hit hard by the U.S. housing slump, cannot afford to keep contributing to a fund for victims of asbestos poisoning, ...