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ABOUT US Where you can find The West Virginia Record Contact us By way of introduction Learning from Dr.

Harron Friday, February 10, 2006 In the tragic tale that is America's affair with the fire-retarding mineral asbestos, Dr.

Ray Harron of Bridgeport is one of the most villainous villains.Even the New York Times splashed Harron on its front page last fall, after a federal judge accused he and several other radiologists of diagnosing for dollars - suggesting that thousands of people got sick from inhaling sand particles so they might sue companies for cash.Harron, who reportedly has diagnosed some 53,000 people as sick from inhaling asbestos, admitted that he never even looked at the 2,700 diagnoses he alone submitted in the Mississipi lawsuits in question."These diagnoses were driven by neither health nor justice," wrote U.S...

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10, 2006 Senate vote tables asbestos fund bill By Mary Dalrymple ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - The Senate rejected an attempt Thursday to keep asbestos cases in the courts, removing one obstacle to the creation of a $140 billion trust fund for paying victims and ending their lawsuits.

Opponents quickly raised another obstacle.

Sen.

John Ensign, R-Nev., questioned the fund's future costs to taxpayers and asserted that the bill violates budget rules.

The bill would establish a...