Robert W. Emerton III (Jim Walter Corporation) to Asbestos Forum Members Transmitting the Final Revised Asbestos Health Hazards Compensation Act (1979)

A cover letter from Robert W. Emerton III of Jim Walter Corporation's Legal Department to members of the Asbestos Forum, enclosing the final revised draft of a proposed federal 'Asbestos Health Hazards Compensation Act' as amended at a meeting on April 10, 1979. The attached 34-page draft bill would create a government-run fund, financed by contributions from asbestos and cigarette 'responsible parties' and the U.S. Treasury, to pay benefits for asbestos-related disease. It would bar other claims against asbestos manufacturers, miners and sellers, and ends with an Appendix A listing Class I products.

What the document holds

• Page 1: Cover letter from Robert W. Emerton III to Asbestos Forum Members, April 17, 1979
• Pages 2-33: Draft 'Asbestos Health Hazards Compensation Act' (Titles I-III: findings, definitions, benefits, Fund, contributions)
• Page 34: Page of garbled, reversed or upside-down text, apparently a printed bill page
• Page 35: Appendix A listing asbestos product classes (Class I products)

People and organizations

From Robert W. Emerton, III (Legal Department, Jim Walter Corporation) to Asbestos Forum Members.

• Jim Walter Corporation (its organization)
• Asbestos Forum (named)
• Social Security Act (named)

About this copy

This is document UC-1623 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 35 pages.