Sources: Asbestos Fund Bill Now Dead

By Steven Brostoff, Washington Editor

NU Online News Service, May 7, 12:20 p.m. EDT,Washington?Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is expected to announce today that negotiations aimed at reaching a consensus on asbestos litigation reform legislation have been terminated without an agreement.[@@]

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