NU Online News Service, Oct. 20, 2:50 p.m. EDT
Corporate interests and the plaintiff's bar are using a new Government Accountability Office study on asbestos trusts to renew their battle over whether the trusts should be required to be more specific in disclosing claims-settlement data.
The GAO report finds that from 1988 through 2010, asbestos trusts have paid about 3.3 million claims valued at about $17.5 billion. The trusts paid 461,000 claims totaling $3 billion in 2010, the report says.
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