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Beurs.nl - The bill would limit potentially huge legal liabilities for U.S. asbestos manufacturers, producers and their successor companies. For example, USG would owe the trust $900 million - roughly $3 billion less than it promised to set aside for asbestos
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Stockhouse Canada - The Federal Reserve takes center stage on Wall Street Tuesday, while some traders’ blood pressure might be rising over a 16-fold medical device stock. On Bay Street, meanwhile, shares of at least one commodity company are so hot they’re radioactive
SHfn @ the Bell: U.S. Stocks Flat Ahead of Fed
Stockhouse Canada - After Monday s close, the company said it earned $773 million, or $0.46 a share, in the fourth quarter, on sales of $9.7 billion. Excluding the $0.10 a share in restructuring charges, the company would have earned $0.56 a share. Analysts expected
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Peoples Weekly World - The interests of asbestos makers and their insurers have become paramount and the needs of victims have become secondary in the asbestos bill being debated in the Senate, said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney in a Feb. 2 letter to lawmakers. The
Alfacell drug trial ahead of schedule
BusinessWeek - JAN. 30 11:01 A.M. ET Biopharmaceutical company Alfacell Corp. said Monday that it expects to fully enroll its late-stage cancer drug trial ahead of schedule. Alfacell shares rose $1.71, or 52.1 percent, to a new 52-week high of $4.99 in morning
Senators should oppose asbestos act
Baxter Bulletin - Years ago, in the process of simply doing my job, I was exposed to asbestos. Today, I suffer from asbestosis and will have health problems for the rest of my life. Sadly, my story is not unique. There are tens of thousands of people just like me
Asbestos compensation plan clears hurdle in Senate, 98-1
Baltimore Sun - WASHINGTON // A painstaking effort to end years of litigation over cancer-causing asbestos survived a procedural hurdle in the Senate yesterday, paving the way for a floor debate over a $140 billion plan to compensate victims outside the courtroom