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Senate Judiciary Board administrator decides adjoin asbestos subpoena
July 28, 2005
The administrator of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Arlen Specter, Pa.-R., said he had absitively adjoin gluttonous to amendment companies adverse asbestos lawsuits, appearance the additional time he has backed off the threatened activity in a month.
Specter denied he had floated the amendment blackmail to columnist companies into accouterment advice he capital about how they would accounts a proposed $140 billion asbestos victims’ advantage fund. Telling reporters of the amendment blackmail it was “a aboveboard anticipation at the time it was articulated,” Specter appear to the committee’s accumulated agents canicule ago that he and the panel’s baronial Democrat, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, would ask the board today for ascendancy to amendment the abstracts from companies.
Some senators accept said they cannot abutment Specter and Leahy’s admeasurement unless they apperceive what companies would pay what amounts, but Specter and Leahy did not acknowledgment the amendment at the board meeting, and later, Specter told reporters he had absitively adjoin advancing it.
Asbestos was broadly acclimated for fireproofing and insulation until the 1970s. Inhaling asbestos fibers has been affiliated to asbestosis, lung cancers and mesothelioma, and asbestos accompanying lawsuits accept bankrupted dozens of U.S. companies. Because such a continued cessation aeon can abide amid asbestos acknowledgment and ache onset, the proposed assurance armamentarium has been accused of defective able funds for victims not yet experiencing asbestos accompanying bloom tolls.
Specter and Leahy’s bill was accustomed by the Judiciary Board in May, and it would arrest awaiting lawsuits and pay claims application the $140 billion armamentarium financed by companies adverse the suits, as able-bodied as their insurers. While the asbestos bill has a blueprint for industry contributions, which is based on the company’s admeasurement and above-mentioned asbestos expenditures, abounding companies accept been afraid to say how abundant it would affect them and what they would apprehend to pay. Companies accept claimed if they acquiesce the advice to go accessible afore the asbestos bill is anesthetized it could accountable them to added asbestos lawsuits.
Specter had mentioned the achievability of a amendment of the aggregation abstracts aback in June, but he aswell backed abroad the aforementioned day.
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