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lobbies for bill, but senators, attorney are wary Private trust fund would compensate victims for dropping lawsuits By Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press WASHINGTON - Dick Hedahl, owner of a Bismarck-based auto parts company, traveled to the nation's capitol this week to lobby for legislation that would set up a $140 billion fund to pay people sickened by asbestos.

At the same time, North Dakota Sen.

Kent Conrad, the top Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, says the bill is "seriously flawed" and could cost taxpayers up to $300 billion.

The bill, which the Senate is debating this week, would pay asbestos victims fro...

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Central Ohio’s premierinformation source News Sports Business InterAct Life / Arts Services Asbestos fund good for victims, business, Ohio senators say Thursday, February 09, 2006 Jonathan Riskind THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH WASHINGTON — Kelly Tompkins says his company isn’t trying to avoid paying compensation to people sickened by exposure to asbestos.

But RPM International of Medina, which makes specialty coatings and sealants, wants to know how much it would pay out and thinks more money should go to victims than for legal fees, said Tompkins, RPM senior vice president.

He and other advocates of a $140 billion asbestos compensation fund for those exposed to the material came to Capitol Hill yesterday to push for the long-stalled legislation.

Proponents say the fund, which would be underwritten by asbestos manufacturers and insurers, would clear tens of thousands of asbestos cases from a clogged court system and aid both victims and the country’s ailing manufacturing sector.

Asbestos was widely used in products such as insulation, but when evidence mounted that it caused lung cancer and that asbestos makers knew of the dangers for deca...