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(AFX UK Focus) 2006-07-30 16:49 GMT: Economist Louis Winnick dies at 85
MANHASSET, N.Y. (AFX) - Louis Winnick, an economist who helped guide the investments of the Ford Foundation and promoted low-income home ownership, has died. He was 85. Winnick died Saturday at a hospice in Manhasset, on Long Island. The cause of death was mesothelioma, a type of lung cancer that his daughter Pamela Winnick attributed to exposure to asbestos when he worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II. Winnick was born in Romania and came to Brooklyn when he was 1. He graduated from Brooklyn College and earned a graduate degree in economics at Columbia University. He worked for the New York City Planning Commission and the Housing and Redevelopment Board before joining the Ford Foundation in 1962. He served as deputy vice president in the national affairs division from 1968 to 1986.
(AFX UK Focus) 2006-07-20 12:37 GMT: UK govt streamlining claims handling for asbestos compensation claims
LONDON (AFX) - The government said it is introducing immediate measures to help victims of asbestos-related lung cancer get their compensation claims handled faster. Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton said the interim action will include clarifying with claims handlers "best practice to ensure priority is given to those with mesothelioma", the medical name for the disease. "We will also work with Revenue and Customs so that employer records can be traced quicker," he said. The move comes on top of the government's decision to change the law through the Compensation Bill, in light of a Law Lords ruling which would have caused delays in resolving claims and made it more difficult for sufferers to recover full compensation. newsdesk@afxnews.com fp/joy COPYRIGHT Copyright AFX News Limited 2005.
Firm denies illegal dumping causing Mesothelioma
The Chattanooga demolition company hired to demolish the old Pepperell High School says it acted responsibly and denied implications of illegal dumping. Meanwhile state and local environmental inspectors are trying to sort through an estimated 300 truckloads of construction debris that was dumped at Otting & Sons junkyard to determine how much asbestos, if any, was buried under 2 feet of soil. The site of the new high school, however, has been declared safe for students and teachers to begin class on Tuesday, said Kevin Chambers, a spokesperson for the state Environmental Protection Division. According to information from the Floyd County Board of Education, the school system removed all asbestos material from the schoolÂ’s property and had it hauled away in March to a suitable landfill in Rockmart, said Bob Puckett, assistant superintendent of county schools.
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