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Перевод: asbestosis

асбестоз

Тезаурус:

1. Many go back more than a decade - to about the time when massive asbestosis judgments first started to trigger claims against insurance policies written in the 1950s.
2. In the case of asbestos for example, there has been a voluminous medical literature on its direct link with asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma.
3. In 20 years only one company with an investment-grade rating from Moody's has defaulted on long-term debt - Manville, a single-A company that went bankrupt voluntarily to protect itself from asbestosis lawsuits.
4. It is precisely because there is uncertainty about how far judges will continue to load costs for asbestosis and pollution on to insurers that so many Lloyd's years have been left open.
5. Not only are many consumers injured by corporate crime; thousands of employees too suffer from "accidents" at work (which are in fact not pure accidents but events which spring directly from the conditions of production and are in that sense avoidable) or work-induced diseases, such as asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma.
6. While emphasizing that he was a health expert rather than an engineer, Professor McDonald was most reassuring, citing Canadian evidence which he claimed showed that asbestosis and lung cancer had never been associated with environmental exposure to asbestos in the general community and were in fact confined to workers in the industry.
7. More than 1,600 names - the people whose personal wealth is pledged to meeting insurance claims - lost money when they found themselves having to meet huge bills for asbestosis and pollution claims after Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the risks from other Lloyd's syndicates in 1982.
8. The widow of a man who died from asbestosis has begun another court battle with British Rail over compensation.
9. As we have already said, the practice seems to be to use the Optional Procedure for relatively simple cases, the only known refusal of an Optional Procedure action being an attempt to pursue a claim for asbestosis thereunder.
10. These face losses, mainly on asbestosis claims, of up to 1 billion; since Lloyd's names have unlimited liability, many will be bankrupted.
11. The group maintains that by the time Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the US risks, the dangers of asbestosis were already known: a Lloyd's working party had been set up in 1980 to look at the issue.
12. A widow who claims she contracted the lung disease asbestosis from washing her husband's overalls is sueing British Rail for damages.
13. The names, on marine syndicates 406 and 448, will have to cover 1988 underwriting losses relating to asbestosis and pollution claims in America.