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Times Politics Print E-mail story Most e-mailed Change text size Ideology, Self-Interest Stand in the Way of Political Compromise on Asbestos Claims By Jonathan Peterson, Times Staff Writer March 24, 2006 WASHINGTON — It is a quest that challenges Congress to its very core.

For almost three decades, a political answer to the barrage of claims arising from exposure to cancer-causing asbestos has eluded lawmakers.

Meanwhile, the longest-running legal brawl over a workplace hazard in U.S.

history grinds on with no end in sight.

ADVERTISEMENT In the latest chapter, the Senate last month rejected a plan to create a $140-billion trust fund to compensate asbestos victims.

Compromise has proved elusive because the issue pits Republican al...

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"But now I know that it's something that could develop over years and kill me."Such fears have led to a staggering surge in silicosis claims targeting a variety of industries.

A few years ago, trial lawyers beg...

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Paul Denies Merger Talks With Zurich Financial (Update1) March 19 (Bloomberg) - St.

Paul Travelers Cos., the second- biggest U.S.

commercial insurer, says it isn't in discussions to buy Zurich Financial Services Group.

Reports that the company would merge with Zurich Financial, the biggest Swiss insurer, aren't true, St.

Paul, Minnesota-based St.

Paul said in a statement distributed by Business Wire today.

On March 17, the Wall Street Journal said St.

Paul may buy Zurich, which would create a company with more than $90 billion in annual revenue, closing in on American International Group Inc.

in New York and Allianz AG in Munich, Germany.

The Journal didn't mention a price.

Zurich spokesman Daniel Hofmann declined to comment that day.

The shares rose 5 percent in Zurich Friday.

St.

Paul was prompted to release a statement because of the ``definitive manner'' of the merger re...