Comments on: Jack Murtha died at the age of 77 today from Lung Cancer http://www.newsgates.com/jack-murtha-died-at-the-age-of-77-today-from-lung-cancer/ News from Around the World Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:51:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: ted welch http://www.newsgates.com/jack-murtha-died-at-the-age-of-77-today-from-lung-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-13415 ted welch Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:44:59 +0000 http://www.newsgates.com/?p=2641#comment-13415 It is very sad that asbestos is still used by number of industries, considering that it's 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 asbestos-related diseases or to protect people from future 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 victims suffering from asbestos-related diseases. The proposed trust fund supposed to be administered outside of the courts through a claims process in which all individuals with particular 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 know, nothing happened. Tragic. It is very sad that asbestos is still used by number of industries, considering that it’s 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 asbestos-related diseases or to protect people from future 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 victims suffering from asbestos-related diseases. The proposed trust fund supposed to be administered outside of the courts through a claims process in which all individuals with particular 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 know, nothing happened. Tragic.

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