Baseline - The company could reorganize while the bankruptcy judge set up a separate claims process for asbestos suits liabilities that now amount to $7 billion. Owens Corning is aiming to emerge from bankruptcy later this year. All along, Owens Corning

Ground Zero health link debated
MSNBC - A month later, the nonsmoker was diagnosed with mesothelioma, an asbestos-related cancer. By last spring, the 41-year-old Feinberg, who issued more than 2,000 payments to people sickened after the attacks, said he rejected many claims of cancer.

How Business Trounced The Trial Lawyers
BusinessWeek - These days the law firm that once was the nation’s most prolific filer of shareholder lawsuits is under indictment, thousands of asbestos and silicosis claims are being probed for fraud, and Vioxx litigation, once thought to be a gravy train express