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- THE WEEK, Page 11NATIONET CETERA
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- ASBESTOS BLUES
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- The insurance industry will find no insulation from liability
- in the 86,000 pending asbestos cases, if a major decision in
- Baltimore, Maryland, is a guide. A jury in the largest such
- trial in American history ruled that four U.S. companies will
- have to pay punitive damages of up to 2 1/2 times their share of
- compensatory -- or actual -- damages. Translated, that could
- mean more than $1 billion in payouts for GAF, the Keene Corp.,
- Pittsburgh Corning and Porter Hayden Co., and their insurers.
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