Betrayal over asbestos products
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HIS company lied to the victims and the families of the dead. He misled his company and the body set up to compensate victims of his company&#39;s asbestos products.
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The companyâs lawyers had attempted to gain the upper hand in a patent case by highlighting safety concerns about the companyâs own product.
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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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A vehicle created by international building products group James Hardie Industries to deal with asbestos-related litigation yesterday moved to appoint a provisional liquidator
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WASHINGTON - The nation's biggest tobacco companies worked together for decades to mislead the public about the dangers of smoking, a federal lawyer alleged Tuesday at the start of a civil racketeering trial in which the government seeks a record $280 billion from the industry.    In his opening statement, Justice Department attorney Frank Marine said starting in the 1960s the industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars on organizations set up to counter the growing body of scientific evidence linking smoking to cancer...
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A local cancer charity that has raised more than $1 million for Massachusetts General Hospital by selling memorial bracelets recalled about 200,000 of the beaded accessories yesterday after receiving a report that a 9-month-old boy became ill after ingesting lead when he put one in his mouth.
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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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A move by insurers to stop compensating people with a condition showing asbestos exposure fails.
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Australia's corporate watchdog has launched legal action against building products company James Hardie for allegedly misleading the stockmarket about its liabilities to asbestos disease victims.
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When Alan and Linda Townsend were unhappy with the sprayed-on siding applied to their house, the frustrated couple launched a Web site to complain and to give other unsatisfied customers a forum. Visitor postings to the Web site said the product, Spray on Siding, cracked, bubbled and buckled. For their efforts, the Townsends got slapped with a lawsuit by the product's maker. The federal case may help shape the boundaries of online speech.
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By James Hagengruber, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jan. 30--LIBBY, Mont. -- After finishing a shift at the vermiculite mine, Les Skramstad would come home covered in the white dust of asbestos.   He'd find the dust in deep recesses of his wallet.
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A fund set up by James Hardie Industries NV to compensate asbestos victims will apply for a liquidator to be appointed, setting a one-week deadline for the company to top up the fund or face the threat of legal action.
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Wearing dust masks in Shenzhen, China is apropos, how to report scammers on eBay and shark cartilage as an alternative to chemotherapy. Who knew?
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The Columbia-based chemical firm conspired for decades to hide the health dangers posed by asbestos at a Montana mine and intentionally exposed mine workers and others to illness and death, a federal grand jury has charged.
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By AVRUM D. LANK  A former executive of Sigma-Aldrich Corp. has been indicted in a kickback scheme alleging he and a Pittsburgh man defrauded the company of millions of dollars.  Robert E.
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Resellers are accused of selling products with fake Certificate of Authenticity labels.
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Competition and merchandise are posing some big problems.