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Insulating Asbestos Firms From Justice
February 6, 2006
Nancy Rossi
Today, the Senate will begin debating an asbestos trust fund bill.
The bill would establish a fund to compensate those thousands affected by asbestos-related illness and deaths.
The legislation is seriously flawed.
I have kept an eye on the issue for some time: In 1978, my 33-year-old husband was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.
John had worked one summer just after college in a warehouse loading building materials containing asbestos.
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When we were told this news, my husband was about to become a partner in his law firm, and I was 29 years old and six months pregnant.
The doctors' goal was to give my husband, John, enough strength and time so that he could live to hold his baby.
But they would never meet - he died a few week...
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