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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has proposed to create a $140 billion industry financed fund to pay victims exposed to asbestos. Frist originally brought the asbestos bill to the Senate floor in April and was denied because his proposed $124 billion fund fell far short of the estimated $149 billion needed to adequately compensate the asbestos victims throughout the years. Leaders are now trying to agree on the outlines of an asbestos fund that could be written into legislation, which would end the right for victims to sue.
Asbestos was widely used until the 1970s in insulation and fireproofing. Health experts have linked the inhalation of asbestos fibers to cancer, including a relatively rare form called mesothelioma. Since mesothelioma diagnoses usually occurs 20 - 40 years after the asbestos exposure, it was difficult to initially make a correlation between exposure and disease. Even today, mesothelioma is still a newly publicized disease that is difficult to both diagnose and treat.
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