Weekend Editorial Blog: Go ahead and march
Statesman Journal - You’re heard the expression, “When Hell freezes over.” A similar one is, “When cows fly.” Today a friend greeted me with, “Where are the flying cows? I don’t see any. There should be cows flying.” I thought it an apt, and humorous, comment about the
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Sunderland Today - COMPENSATION payments will be slashed for the families of thousands of shipyard workers with asbestos-related cancer, it was ruled today. Insurers for British Shipbuilders claimed victory in a House of Lords test case about former Sunderland shipyard
Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization Urges United States Surgeon
Onlypunjab.com - The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), an organization dedicated to serving as the voice of asbestos victims, urges Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, to issue an immediate warning to educate Americans on the deadly
Dumping threat to primary school pupils
Birmingham Post - A pile of harmful asbestos has remained outside a Birmingham school for three days after being dumped on Bank Holiday Monday, teachers revealed last night Fly-tippers were caught on CCTV outside Montgomery Primary School, in Sparkbrook, off-loading
Asbestos victims set to lose compensation
Daily Telegraph - The liability of employers to compensate asbestos dust victims and their families is to be drastically reduced in many cases following a judgment by the Law Lords. The House of Lords upheld three test appeals, effectively brought by company insurers
Ulster dismay over asbestos liability ruling
Belfast Telegraph - Northern Ireland’s asbestos disease victims suffered a setback yesterday after the liability of employers was drastically cut by a House of Lords ruling. The Lords upheld three test appeals, effectively brought by company insurers, in which it was
Suffering from a father’s job
Globe and Mail - In B.C., which has some of the most complete asbestos-disease statistics in the country, about 600 people were diagnosed with mesothelioma from 1990 to 2003, but fewer than half received workers compensation. Medical researchers believe the vast
Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization Urges United States Surgeon
Money Plans - The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), an organization dedicated to serving as the voice of asbestos victims, urges Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, to issue an immediate warning to educate Americans on the deadly