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- <text id=92TT1902>
- <title>
- Aug. 24, 1992: Nation:Et Cetera
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 24, 1992 George Bush: The Fight of His Life
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 11
- NATION
- ET CETERA
- </hdr><body>
- <p>ASBESTOS BLUES
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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