http://themichiganmesotheliomalawyer.com Finding the best Mesothelioma Lawyers of Michigan Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:18:51 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://themichiganmesotheliomalawyer.com/about/comment-page-1/#comment-98 CHARIS KNOX Sat, 26 Feb 2011 07:18:51 +0000 http://themichiganmesotheliomalawyer.com/?page_id=2#comment-98 It is very sad that asbestos is still used by number of industries, taking into consideration that it is one of the major causes of mesothelioma and other types of lung cancer. It also makes me sad that US federal legislation has been enacted to provide compensation to victims of diseases related to asbestos intake or to protect people from further asbestos exposure, even thou a bill called FAIR Act has been introduced in Congress several times. This bill supposed to create a national trust fund to provide compensation to individuals suffering from asbestos-related diseases. The proposed trust fund supposed to be administered by the DOL through a claims process in which all individuals with certain medical symptoms and evidence of diseases related to asbestos would receive compensation. Funding for the trust would come from insurance companies and companies that mined, manufactured, and sold asbestos. But... As we see, nothing seemed to happen. Tragic. It is very sad that asbestos is still used by number of industries, taking into consideration that it is one of the major causes of mesothelioma and other types of lung cancer. It also makes me sad that US federal legislation has been enacted to provide compensation to victims of diseases related to asbestos intake or to protect people from further asbestos exposure, even thou a bill called FAIR Act has been introduced in Congress several times. This bill supposed to create a national trust fund to provide compensation to individuals suffering from asbestos-related diseases. The proposed trust fund supposed to be administered by the DOL through a claims process in which all individuals with certain medical symptoms and evidence of diseases related to asbestos would receive compensation. Funding for the trust would come from insurance companies and companies that mined, manufactured, and sold asbestos. But… As we see, nothing seemed to happen. Tragic.

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