1.   Determining how many asbestos suits have been filed or how much companies have spent to resolve them is difficult.

2.   If Dallas and Sacramento play in the second round, the fans in the front-row seats might need asbestos suits.

3.   In a ruling last month, the Texas Supreme Court threw out potentially damaging asbestos suits against Australian mining concern CSR Ltd.

4.   Lawyers handling the asbestos suits against Grace say the shuffling was done to conceal assets and cloud the corporate lines of responsibility.

5.   Most of the hundreds of thousands of pending asbestos suits are filed against multiple defendants.

6.   Partly because of the agreement, Owens Corning and other litigants stopped pressing Congress to pass legislation restraining asbestos suits.

7.   Other than charges in the thousands of asbestos suits filed against the company, Halliburton to date has been accused of no wrongdoing.

8.   The cases affected would include everything from employment discrimination, environmental disasters and health care fraud, to product liability cases such as asbestos suits.

9.   The eventual impact of the asbestos suits on corporate giants like General Electric is uncertain.

10.   Their bark is virtually devoid of pitch, which creates the equivalent of an asbestos suit, impervious to fire.