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This book provides a study of past, present and emerging mass torts with practical information drawn from examples such as asbestos. A must read for plaintiff and defense attorneys, judges, insurance and reinsurance company claims managers, risk managers, brokers, actuarials and executives, this book will help them:

- Identify key data and assumptions necessary at each stage of the estimation process;

- Learn how the incidence and prevalence of a condition is converted into claims;

- Forecast liability exposure for risk management and conveyance of assets;

- Assess reserve and settlement trusts for financial planning and company insulation; and

- Review historical and new estimation techniques.

A Story Worth Telling is a true account of an asbestos tragedy. Eddie and Becky Albarado fight to lengthen his life after a diagnosis of Mesothelioma. There is no cure for Mesothelioma, a cancer whose only known cause is asbestos exposure. Their venture takes them halfway across the nation to become a part of a clinical trial, the only hope for Mesothelioma victims, at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. It is a story of their love, their life, and their struggle to hold onto it.

About the Author
Rebecca Albarado is an elementary school teacher in the small Georgia town in which she grew up. She earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master’s Degree in Elementary Education at the University of West Georgia. She has one son and is a grandmother.

As part of a year-long investigation into the impact of the General Mining Act, which let corporations buy land cheaply from the government, Schneider, senior national correspondent for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, met with Gayla Benefield, a resident and activist in Libby, Mont. Benefield’s extensive knowledge of the area and the number of people suffering from asbestos-related illnesses impressed Schneider. He began his own digging, talking to lawyers, residents, environmental experts and staffers at the EPA, and even had tests conducted. This book chronicles his inquiry into an enormous coverup by Grace Corporation, which ran the Zonolite factory. Schneider and McCumber, managing editor at the newspaper, have written a compelling and frightening story about the victims-the people who worked in the factory and other local residents who weren’t employees-suffering from life-threatening ailments. The authors focus on the individuals rather than the legal wrangling, court cases or scientific research. For example, in describing the matter-of-fact way employees handled the asbestos dust, they compellingly write: “Each floor was worse than the last. Les’ battle with the never-ending blizzard of dust was truly mythical in proportion, like Hercules cleaning the Augean stables…. When he got on the bus to ride back to town that night, he was covered in dust, just like everybody else. His hair was coated, his ears and his nose were plugged up. His throat felt like sandpaper. The dust in his mouth and nose felt like thick brown syrup….” With Benefield-who’s reminiscent of Erin Brockovich-at the center of the story, the authors have written a first-rate book about a contemporary American tragedy.
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