Asbestos: why are UK courts so hard on its victims?
Two cases, two very different stories. Brendan Malkin finds the US putting the UK to shame Troubled engineering group ABB has put aside almost $1bn (£642.3m) to cover asbestos litigation liabilities in the US arising from subsidiary Combustion Engineering (CE). ABB is now considering placing CE into voluntary bankruptcy. Another US company, Federal-Mogul, has considerable […]