Reply #29: More info - The "Sick Building Syndrome" [View All]

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While these asbestos-liability-mitigation efforts were underway, the workers in the WTC and similarly afflicted buildings began visiting their doctors frequently and persistently. Soon the medical profession came up with what is now known as the Sick Building Syndrome.
http://www.nsc.org/library/facts/sickbldg.htm

The Port Authority sued unsuccessfully, several times trying to absolve itself of responsibility for the toxins within buildings that it owned and controlled.
Some of the WTC asbestos had been placed by well connected British firms with a strong international presence.

http://www.whitelung.org/jfalerts/sprayedasbestos.html

"So prominent had the firm (Turner & Newall) become that in 1939 it was obliged to issue a report denying that it was a monopoly, as it only had 20 per cent of the world asbestos market!" By the late 1950’s its sales had overtaken those of US asbestos giant: Johns Manville: "while Johns-Manville had sales of $304.1 million in 1959, T&N had sales of $450 million the previous year." Of course, T&N is a well-known company; it is a frequent defendant in both US and UK personal injury cases.

http://www.btinternet.com/~ibas/lka_tn_expo.htm

The New York and New Jersey Port Authority
could not see any light at the end of the tunnel,
other than that of an oncoming train.
So they deeded the property to Larry Silverstein and his pals
after their initial candidate wimped out.
Osama, international leveller of defective buildings,
then took the rap for the demolition of the entire WTC complex,
and a few adjacent buildings.
By the time the dust settled, the insurance companies had all rewritten their contracts and the new contracts now contained language that somehow also eliminated any asbestos-type claims.

http://info.insure.com/business/terrorist901.html