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Travelers Suffers Loss After Asbestos Charge
Jan 23, 2003 | FT.COM
Travelers Property Casualty on Thursday reported a significant loss for the fourth-quarter as it booked a $1.3bn charge for bolstering its asbestos...
Travelers Takes $1.3B Charge for Asbestos
Jan 14, 2003 | AP
Travelers Property Casualty Corp. said Tuesday it would charge $1.3 billion against earnings after taxes in the fourth quarter to strengthen its...
After Billions Paid In Settlements, Asbestos Lawsuits Continue
Jan 7, 2003 | Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
It's the litigation that won't go away.Asbestos lawsuits, a fixture of the U.S. court docket for more than 20 years, show no sign of abating.The cost...
AutoZone Sued
Nov 26, 2002 | Memphis Business Journal
Memphis-based AutoZone says it has been named as a defendant along with numerous others in an "insignificant number" of asbestos lawsuits regarding...
Asbestos Causes New Panic, But True Picture Unknown
Nov 4, 2002 | Wall Street Journal
A building material banned for 20 years and all but extinct in towns and cities still has the power to frighten stock markets: asbestos.The...
Asbestos Claim Held Against Union Carbide
Oct 25, 2002 | FT.com
A jury in a high-profile case in West Virginia on Thursday found Union Carbide, a unit of Dow Chemical, liable for some workers' asbestos exposure,...
Asbestos Suits Become More Widespread
Sep 26, 2002 | The Los Angeles Times
Asbestos litigation has ensnared more than 6,000 companies--triple previous estimates--and is affecting nearly every industry, a Rand Institute study...
Asbestos Claims Go To Trial
Sep 24, 2002 | AP
Thousands of asbestos claims against two dozen corporations went to trial Tuesday in a potentially multimillion-dollar case that has renewed...
W. Va. Asbestos Claims Go To Trial
Sep 24, 2002 | AP
Thousands of asbestos claims against two dozen corporations went to trial Tuesday in a potentially multimillion-dollar case that has renewed...
Honeywell Settles Asbestos Lawsuits
Sep 24, 2002 | AP
Honeywell International has reached out-of-court settlements for undisclosed terms with plaintiffs who claimed in a West Virginia lawsuit that their...
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