A trial begins against Warren Buffett's BNSF Railway over the lung cancer deaths of two people who lived in a small town in Montana where thousands were exposed to asbestos.
A trial begins against Warren Buffett's BNSF Railway over the lung cancer deaths of two people who lived in a small town in Montana where thousands were exposed to asbestos. The W.R. Grace & Co. mine near Libby produced contaminated vermiculite, sickening thousands and causing hundreds of deaths.
The estates of Thomas Wells and Joyce Walder filed a wrongful death lawsuit, claiming that BNSF stored asbestos-laden vermiculite in a rail yard without containing the dust or warning residents about its dangers
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