11.   Immediately, the trust began paying claims to workers in whom mesothelioma, a fatal lung disease linked to asbestos exposure, had been diagnosed.

12.   Indeed, much of the problem in that business stems from old policies that are producing big claims for things like asbestos exposure.

13.   Interviews with state and federal officials uncovered only a handful of inspections during the past five years specifically for asbestos exposure of brake workers.

14.   Mortensen compared the relative risks of family history and place of birth in schizophrenia to the role of asbestos exposure and smoking as risk factors for lung cancer.

15.   Most of the thousands of studies done on the health effects of asbestos exposure centered on the worker being exposed hundreds of times a years for dozens of years.

16.   She contended the only workers who should be allowed to recover damages for asbestos exposure are those who can prove some physical or emotional injury.

17.   Steven Kazan, a lawyer who represents only plaintiffs with mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos exposure, and lung cancer, dismissed the suits by healthy plaintiffs.

18.   That final effort was followed by a near-total halt to monitoring asbestos exposure in auto workers.

19.   The Asbestos Information Association, an industry-funded lobbying group, cited medical studies which they claimed showed the risk of asbestos exposure from the mines was minimal.

20.   The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health report came a year later, recommending a much lower asbestos exposure limit.