The asbestos industry’s 24-year fight to pass legislation that would protect it from lawsuits by workers and others who have become ill as a result of exposure to asbestos will be renewed again in January, according to Senate Judiciary Committee’s new chairman, Arlen Specter (R-PA), as reported by the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health.
In December meetings with representatives of asbestos companies, insurance companies, organized labor and trial lawyers, Specter said that he planned to introduce a revised version of the bill that died without coming to a vote in 2004.