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:: Thursday, October 16, 2003 ::
Accord Reached On Asbestos Fund (washingtonpost.com) By Albert B. Crenshaw
Negotiators for asbestos manufacturers and their insurers, under pressure from Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), have reached agreement on funding for a national trust fund that is being proposed to pay the claims of people made ill by exposure to the fibrous mineral, parties to the dispute said yesterday.
But labor union and trial-lawyer groups, which weren't involved in the Frist talks, called the funding inadequate.
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