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Example sentences for: asbestos

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As Pringle reports, the trial attorneys filed their class action suits in the early '90s after having tapped out the conventional product liability market: asbestos, IUDs, and silicone implants.
A6 (EPA says levels of airborne asbestos below threshold of concern); Hugo Kugiya,"Terrorist Attacks; Asbestos Targeted in Cleanup Effort; EPA's Whitman:'No reason for concern,'" Newsday, Sept. 16, 2001, p.
Berlaymont has been closed for nine years after an asbestos scare and a botched cleanup: European taxpayers have paid $50 million so far merely to keep the building closed, with air pumps running around the clock to prevent any fibers from wafting out.
It does not, and should, discuss other recent product-liability cases of national importance, such as asbestos, tobacco, and hand guns.
The attorneys general, also primed by asbestos settlements, joined in with a new legal argument that held the industry liable for the Medicaid bills of all tobacco-damaged patients--an argument that has proved persuasive in three states.