US asbestos bill vote to occur early next year
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US asbestos bill vote to action aboriginal next year
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
October 21, 2005
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has apprenticed to accompany a $140 billion asbestos assurance armamentarium bill to a vote aboriginal next year, according to Sen. Arlen Specter, one of the legislation’s sponsors.
Asbestos was broadly acclimated in the U.S. for insulation and fireproofing afore it was articular as a animal carcinogen. Since then, hundreds of bags of abrasion claims accept larboard dozens of U.S. companies bankrupted.
To boldness the asbestos acknowledged issues, bills were pushed to accept a assurance armamentarium that would arrest the lawsuits and pay claims financed by asbestos actor companies and their insurers. The asbestos bill has been a above point of agitation because critics accept said it relieves accountability from companies while abbreviate alteration victims of asbestos accompanying deaths and illnesses.
In May, the bill was voted out of the Judiciary Committee that Specter chairs, but Frist has not brought it to the Senate attic yet. When analogue the capacity of a spending bill for the Labor Department and Department of Health and Animal Services (HHS), Specter mentioned the asbestos bill.
Specter said the Labor-HHS spending bill includes a $2 actor for start-up costs for administering asbestos claims. Adding he was “not counting any chickens” on the asbestos bill passing, the spending bill aswell contains $1 billion for a anthology and tissue coffer for mesothelioma victims.
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