US asbestos bill faces hurdles
US Senate majority leader Bill Frist has announced that he is confident that a bill setting up a national fund to pay a flood of asbestos claims will be tabled in the Senate soon, despite insurers' calls to try to resolve the problem in the courts.
"I am confident we will have a bill, a bipartisan bill, that centers on a trust fund, on the floor of the Senate in the not too distant future," said Senator Frist.He said he was not discouraged that
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