Building products maker James Hardie to pay A$1.5B to asbestos ...
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Building products maker James Hardie reached a landmark agreement Tuesday to compensate thousands of Australians suffering crippling lung diseases caused by the asbestos it made decades ago.
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Embattled building products firm James Hardie Industries NV yesterday signed a landmark compensation deal for thousands of Australians battling asbestos-related disease after exposure to its products.
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Credit Suisse First Boston&#39;s Canadian unit must pay regulators C$1.5 million ($1.3 million) to settle accusations that it improperly traded shares of BCE Inc.
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The British mining company Anglo American is in exclusive negotiations to pay $5.5 billion for control of iron ore projects owned by a Brazilian mining concern.
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James Hardie Industries NV underfunded a trust to compensate asbestos victims by at least A$1.5 billion ($1.1 billion) and misled investors when it said it had set aside enough money
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BHP Billiton Ltd./Plc. , the worldâs largest diversified miner, said on Tuesday it would buy back up to A$1.5 billion ($1.1 billion) of its shares.
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Tens of thousands of trade unionists participated in rallies in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane on September 15 to demand that the James Hardie company, which dominated the Australian market for asbestos products throughout the 20th century, pay full
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TONY JONES: Unions and asbestos victims have accused the James Hardie Board of protecting the chief architects of its underfunded compensation trust.
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Swiss engineering firm ABB has suffered a setback over its plans to finalise a $1.2 billion (SFr1.48 billion) asbestos settlement in the United States.
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Australian building products company James Hardie Industries NV broke the Corporations Law in February 2001 when it announced its fund to compensate asbestos disease sufferers was &quot;fully funded,&quot; a special inquiry has found.
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Building products giant James Hardie on Monday announced a 9 percent decline in half-year net profits through September and lowered its full-year profit forecast, citing costs linked to an asbestos claims case.
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Business & money: Oil giant agrees to withhold Â£1.5m owed to former chief executive while a court case is resolved.
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Shares in James Hardie Industries NV rallied on news that two key executives will stand aside, rather than resign, over the company&#39;s underfunding of asbestos compensation.
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Coca-Cola Co. KO.N, which warned  earlier this week of lower-than-expected profits this year,  said on Friday it will pay Chairman and Chief Executive Neville  Isdell $1.5 million a year.
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Building products company James Hardie announced it had approved a multi-billion dollar deal to compensate victims of deadly diseases contracted from exposure to its asbestos products.
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JAMES Hardie Industries NV today said it was closer to signing off on a compensation agreement for future asbestos victims. But the building products group has refused to say whether the agreement - potentially
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Building products company James Hardie Industries has struck Australia&#39;s largest personal injury deal, agreeing to pay asbestos victims more than $1 billion over the next 40 years.