On July 14, the U.S. Senate began debate on the Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2003, a measure aimed at addressing the nation’s asbestos litigation crisis. Introduced in May by Senate ...

The Senate has voted to begin debate on legislation calling for creation of an asbestos trust fund to compensate the victims made sick by asbestos exposure. Critics say the fund is a corporate bailout ...

Asbestos liability is a real crisis that demands reform, but the U.S. Senate is poised for another big push for a deeply flawed bill that could actually make things worse. The bill fell just one vote ...

It-s been decades since asbestos first made headlines as a deadly workplace hazard. Some 200,000 lawsuits are currently pending, and the numbers keep rising every year. Two thousand people a year are ...

WASHINGTON -- As a child in Montana, Mike Switzer played around the vermiculite mine, swinging off a rope into dusty piles of insulation and pushing toy cars through asbestos-laden yards. Now, at 65, ...

WASHINGTON — Prospects for legislation that would create a $108 billion trust fund for residents of Libby and others who have been sickened by asbestos are bleak. The optimistic Judiciary Committee ...

WASHINGTON -- Pushed by the White House and big insurers, the Senate is preparing to consider legislation that would create a $114 billion trust fund to compensate workers made sick by asbestos. But ...

HELENA - Sen. Max Baucus is urging creation of a federal "white lung" trust fund to care for people with asbestos diseases. Baucus has asked the director of the Congressional Research Service to ...

Former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin plans to deliver a potentially damaging blow to the prospects of a controversial bill on asbestos-litigation reform at a hearing ...

BOUND BROOK – Two years after asbestos was discovered, work has begun on the abatement of the hazardous material at the Bound ...

The Senate asbestos bill faces a make-or-break vote today, as Republican and Democratic opponents of the legislation attempt to block it as a potential drain on the federal treasury. The bill would ...