Posted On: August 21, 2004, 6:37 am CDT

Posted By: Barrie

Maybe I'm just mentally challenged (that's PC for thick as porcine excrement), but I don't really understand why insurers are paying out on asbestos at all. Basically, the CGL policy excludes deliberate act. The first person to go on record about the dangers of asbestosis was Pliny the Elder several thousand years ago, when he wrote that Hebrew slaves working in the asbestos mines suffered lung ailments leading to death and should, therefore, be issued with pigskin masks (not very kosher) to filter out the fibres. And in the 20th century asbestos manufacturers act surprised. "How could we know about the dangers of our product? We don't have a classical education."