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No agreement on how to resolve asbestos claims By Maureen Groppe, Gannett News Service
WASHINGTON — Hooked up to an oxygen tank, former boiler engineer Stephen Rosenberg wheeled into congressional offices on a motorized chair last July to ask lawmakers not to stop his lawsuit against makers of the asbestos products he believed caused his cancer.
Since his death in October, Rosenberg's widow and two children have continued a legal fight against asbestos makers they believe knew about the dangers but didn't protect workers, not even by offering a face mask.
"Anything would have been better than ...
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