A major railroad company is trying to convince a federal jury that a Montana clinic submitted hundreds of asbestos claims for people who weren’t sick and bilked taxpayer funds
FILE - The town of Libby Mont., is shown Feb. 17, 2010. A major U.S. railroad found partially liable for asbestos contamination that’s killed hundreds of people in a Montana town is trying to convince a federal jury a local clinic submitted hundreds of asbestos claims for people who weren’t sick. MISSOULA, Mont. — — A major U.S.
CARD and its attorneys deny the claims, arguing the clinic made its diagnoses in line with requirements of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which included special provisions for the Libby victims. BNSF attorney Adam Duerk criticized Black’s stated ability to perceive early signs of asbestosis disease that others missed.
Former Democratic U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, of Montana, authored the Libby provision in the health law. He said in depositions with attorneys that the clinic’s practice of declaring some patients eligible for benefits without a secondary confirmation of their condition was legitimate. At least 400 people have been killed by asbestos-related disease in the Libby area, according to health officials. Because of the long latency period for those diseases, symptoms can take decades to develop.. It polluted the Libby area over decades, including at a BNSF railway yard in the heart of the town of about 3,000 people.
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