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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on July 14, 1997. The length of the article is 554 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: All the justices on the US Supreme Court agreed that Michael Buckley could not obtain damages for emotional distress from Metro-North Commuter Railroad because he was exposed to asbestos but has not developed asbestosis symptoms. Liability insurance companies were relieved by the decision because numerous cases involving everything from the fear of electromagnetic fields to repetitive stress could have entered the legal arena. Metro-North was also not forced to provide Michael Buckley with free tests to determine if he will ever develop an asbestos-related illness.

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Title: Top court wisely dismissed claim for phantom injury.(US Supreme Court dismisses damage claim from worker exposed to asbestos but not suffering from asbestosis)(Editorial)
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 14, 1997
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Volume: v101Issue: n28Page: p28(1)

Article Type: Editorial

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This digital document is an article from FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine, published by Focus Publications, Inc. on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 2171 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Asbestosis--a primer and an update.(Clinical Keeper #5)
Author: Bill Wojciechowski
Publication: FOCUS: Journal for Respiratory Care & Sleep Medicine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2003
Publisher: Focus Publications, Inc.
Page: 10(4)

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The article is excerpted fromGale Encyclopedia of Medicine.

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This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to asbestosis. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to asbestosis.If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages.Download Description
This is a 3-in-1 reference book. It gives a complete medical dictionary covering hundreds of terms and expressions relating to asbestosis. It also gives extensive lists of bibliographic citations. Finally, it provides information to users on how to update their knowledge using various Internet resources. The book is designed for physicians, medical students preparing for Board examinations, medical researchers, and patients who want to become familiar with research dedicated to asbestosis. If your time is valuable, this book is for you. First, you will not waste time searching the Internet while missing a lot of relevant information. Second, the book also saves you time indexing and defining entries. Finally, you will not waste time and money printing hundreds of web pages. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on March 13, 2000. The length of the article is 981 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Lloyd's Charged With Coverup On Asbestosis.(Lloyd's of London charged with fraud by Names)(Brief Article)
Author: Lisa S. Howard
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 13, 2000
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Volume: 104Issue: 11Page: 2

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This digital document is an article from Defense Counsel Journal, published by International Association of Defense Counsels on October 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1242 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Fear of future cancer part of pain and suffering.
Author: Ronald E. Bailey
Publication: Defense Counsel Journal (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2003
Publisher: International Association of Defense Counsels
Volume: 70Issue: 4Page: 485(3)

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This digital document is an article from Defense Counsel Journal, published by International Association of Defense Counsels on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 3139 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Employers' liability for asbestos diseases: House of Lords takes a turn in English law: recent House of Lords decision may indicate a return to the lower "material contribution" causation test and a general lowering of the burden of proof.
Author: Jessica Burt
Publication: Defense Counsel Journal (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2002
Publisher: International Association of Defense Counsels
Volume: 69Issue: 3Page: 326(5)

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Title: Another round of asbestos legislation.
Author: Kristin Loiacono
Publication: Trial (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Volume: 39Issue: 4Page: 11(1)

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Title: State asbestos bills would create obstacles for the injured.
Publication: Trial (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 42Issue: 4Page: 10(1)

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Written by one of the leading asbestos experts for both plaintiff and defense attorneys, occupational and environmental health professionals, as well as others in the field of toxic substances control, Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects has become the definitive resource on the medical and legal aspects of asbestos.

Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects provides a comprehensive examination of the public health history of asbestos, from the origins of industrial use to the present. It includes in-depth coverage of prior and ongoing litigation; extensive evaluation of the legal arguments put forth by plaintiff and defense counsel; and provides crucial information, materials and resources on the evolving corporate knowledge of asbestos hazards. The book covers in detail: asbestosis and cancer; compensability of asbestosis and cancer as occupational diseases; thresholds and standards used to determine safe or acceptable levels of asbestos exposure in the workplace; and company knowledge of asbestos hazards, gleaned from countless depositions, company records, industry consultants and trade associations.

Some items new to the Fifth Edition include:

extensive discussion of corporate knowledge and responsibility for asbestos hazards
extensive examination of the international struggle over asbestos, whereby some countries have banned asbestos while others have continued to expand their usage of asbestos in building materials
detailed discussion of alternatives to asbestos. ... Read more

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Asbestos Legal Aspects
It isavery usefull book to people involved in litigation agaisnt asbestos companies. It allow you tousethe long experience in this subject carried out in USA and other countries and the Companies strategiesfor avoiding their liabilities. ... Read more

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Sentimental
This catastrophe deserved a more comprehensive treatment. "When one person dies, it is a tragedy. When thousands die, it is war." What happened in Libby, Montana was like war on a population, but this book treats it like several personal tragedies. The W.R. Grace Company is a corporation without a conscience and deserves to be indicted for its crimes, not be allowed to avoid all responsibility by going into and then out of bankruptcy unscathed. The book on what happened in Libby still needs to be written.

journalism vs. soap opera
As a former Libby resident (1976-1982) and one who has since found out that I am one of the 'victims', I was looking forward to reading "Libby Montana".I was hoping for a journalist's straight forward and honest appraisal of the Libby tragedy.
Instead, I found myself reading a series of disconnected thoughts and needless ramblings - sprinkled with a lot of overworked sentimentality.I personally know (or knew) many of the folks named in the book.Instead of writing from a true journalist's viewpoint, Andrea Peacock instead presents a verbal 'Oprah Winfrey' show.She wanders back and forth through history with no really coherent thought process and hopes that by throwing in an occassional tear-jerking story now and then she will keep the reader interested.She has managed to turn would could have been an excellent documentary into a soap opera and by doing so only belittles the overall magnitude of the Libby disaster.

More true thantrue and worse than anyone could believe!
I was born in this town, Libby, Montana.Eventhough I grew up eighteen miles away in Troy, I knew most of the families mentioned in the book. My high school field trip was a day trip to the mine, the dry processing plant, the expansion plant, the loading docks. All through junior high and high school, we had track meets next to the railroad tracks where the trains were loaded with the ore.What she says in her book is true, no one told anyone that the ore was harmful, or even had asbestos in it.No one said a word, and if anyone asked, they were told it was "nuisance dust."It was such a cover-up that I had to read the Seattle PI account twice before I believed it.
I applied for a job at the mine when I went to college.That was thirty years ago. If I had gotten that job, chances are I would be dead, just like my father.Dad never worked at the mine, but he drove by it several times a week to maintain some radio equipment on top of the mountain. Several times a week for twenty-six years and he died of Mesothelioma.

Excellent Read
Andrea Peacock did an excellent job of describing the
environmental disaster that has ravaged this small
Montana town.

Peacock's description of human suffering,
corporate greed, and "bought" politicians brings
this true story to life.

Highly recommended reading.

mesothelioma lobby loves this book
Truth be told, asbestos will not kill 100% of everybody.Consider these stats: Industrial accidents comprise 1.1 million deaths, which exceeds the average annual deaths from road accidents (999,000), war (502,000), violence (563,000) and HIV/AIDS (312,000).Of this total deaths from asbestos exposure equals about 100,000 (9% of all industrial accidents, and only 2.9% of the total deaths above).

Yet the mesothelioma lobby would want you to believe that asbestos--which is a mineral known since ancient times--will kill everybody unless it's totally removed.

This reporter tries to ape Aron Brockovitch, and plays up to the hype.In fact, it gives just one side of the story.The other side is this:the people at Libby supported asbestos while the going was good, yet when demand died down, they turned against it.You cannot have your cake and eat it too.Harsh but true.BTW, I have nothing against cancer sufferors, just pointing out that there's a lobby of lawyers who make a killing filing lawsuits on behalf of mesothelioma victims.And this book plays to that lobby. ... Read more

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Pathology of Asbestos-Associated Diseases integrates the newest research and advances in its discussion of asbestos-induced diseases. Organized in 13 chapters, the book begins with background information on the mineralogy of asbestos, occupation and environmental exposure to asbestos, and asbestosis. A detailed discussion on mesothelioma includes a historical background, addresses etiologic considerations and epidemiology, pathologic features, differential diagnosis and treatment and prognosis. Guidelines for assessing and identifying asbestos-associated carcinomas of the lung, including histopathology and differential diagnosis, are discussed. The text also addresses the explosion of research in the area of molecular biology and the abundance of information bearing on the mechanisms by which asbestos causes disease. Chapters also cover cytopathology and experimental models of asbestos-related diseases. The diseases associated with asbestos have significant medico-legal implications, and there are two chapters dedicated to addressing the issue. More than 190 illustrations complement the text. An invaluable reference for the pathologist, pulmonologist, radiologist, and occupational medical practitioner interested in asbestos-related disease as well as malpractice attorneys needing an understanding of asbestos, the diseases it induces, prognosis and clinical implications.

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The gold standard for asbestos medical litigation information ... Read more