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February 8, 2006
Asbestos bill would pull claims from court
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February 8, 2006
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BY LEAH MCBRIDE
l-mcbride@northwestern.edu
WASHINGTON - Three years ago this week, Carolyn Benton of Greeley watched helplessly as her husband died of mesothelioma, a form of cancer often associated with asbestos exposure.
"It was devastating," Benton said.
Her husband, then 55, died 11 months after being diagnosed, leaving Benton to wonder if things might have turned out differently had simple precautions been taken to protect her husband from the asbestos he had worked with on a ship in the Navy while serving in Vietnam and as a pipe fitter in New York shipyards.
Now, she is doing everything she can to stop the Senate from passing the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act, a bill she and other oppon...
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