Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Asbestos payments hit tax delay

 

Asbestos payments hit tax delay
Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide,South Australia,Australia
COMPENSATION payments to victims of James Hardie's asbestos products are being held up by a wrangle between the company and the tax office.

Cleanup company says asbestos will be removed by next Friday
The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA
... And by next Friday, the site of the fire will be picked clean and the asbestos litter it left behind hauled away, the president of the company doing the .

Company that had asbestos affiliate offers 2 million yen to woman ...
Asahi Shimbun - Tokyo,Japan
... based cement maker has decided to offer 2 million yen to a woman with lung cancer who spent part of her childhood living close to an asbestos factory operated ...

Killingly expected to finish cleaning asbestos in high school ...
Norwich Bulletin - Norwich,CT,USA
KILLINGLY -- Provided things go as planned, students and staff at Killingly High School won't have to worry about asbestos in the auditorium. ...

UPDATE 1-US court reverses Owens Corning bankruptcy ruling
Reuters - USA
... The company, known for its Pink Panther mascot, filed for Chapter 11 protection nearly five years ago, weighed down by asbestos-related lawsuits.

Judge Finds Plaintiffs' Lawyers Behaving Badly: Ann Woolner
Bloomberg - USA
... The US Chamber of Commerce has been building a database that it says detects fraud-like patterns in asbestos and silicosis cases.

Dialysis construction underway
Tillsonburg News - ON,Canada
... president Tom McHugh said hospital team members, in conjunction with the Ministry of Labour and the contractor, spent about a week doing asbestos abatement in ...

New waste directive to cost millions
Drogheda Independent - Drogheda,Ireland
Asbestos cement water pipes, which are usually disposed of by cementing them up and leaving them in the ground, could now cost Meath County Council and ...

Local News
Halifax Today - UK
THE family of a Rastrick man who died 20 years after working with asbestos are taking legal action against Calderdale Council. John ...