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... News One - Your News Leader westfallweeklynews@newsone.ca Please support local business Aivik Equipment Limited 4th St W, Westfall, AB Canada (403) 839-4455 Ansells Refrigeration and Heating Farm, Westfall, AB Canada (403) 839-4802 Barron's Gasoline Hwy 55, Westfall, AB Canada (403) 839-4496 C Pollock Transport Limited Farm, Westfall, AB Canada (403) 839-4604 Cutlines Hair Design 2nd Ave S, Westfall, AB Alberta Canada (403) 839-4797 Double H Hauling Oil and Gasfield Services (Glenn Hall) Main St, Westfall, AB Alberta Canada (403) 839-4666 Dana Reeve‘s death draws attention to lung cancer Dana Reeve‘s death draws attention to lung cancer Staff and agencies08 March, 2006 By Deborah Zabarenko 1 hour, 4 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The lung cancer death of activist Dana Reeve, a non-smoker and widow of "Superman" star Christopher Reeve, has focused attention on what some have discounted as a "self-induced" disease unworthy of adequate research money.

"Sadly, it takes her death, coming just seven months after diagnosis, and the fact that she had never smoked, to let the public see the real picture of lung cancer," said Laurie Fenton, president of the non-profit Lung Cancer Alliance.

"Lung cancer continues to be portrayed as a self-induced cancer that does not deserve public research funding," Fenton said in a statement.

Reeve announced she had lung cancer in August 2005, less than two years after the 2004 death of her husband, an actor p...

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...Sylvia Barker and Mary Murray will face arguments that the law should be changed to stop them being compensated in full for losing their husbands to the fatal disease, because some of the companies responsible have vanished or were not insured.

If successful, the appeal, by successors of employers in the shipbuilding and steelmaking industries, could deprive thousands of claimants of their full entitlement to compensation for mesothelioma.

The hearing in London between 13 – 15 March follows the defeat of insurers’ attempt to end compensation for mesothelioma in the Fairchild test cases in the House of Lords in 2002.

The insurance industry is watching developments in the appeal which, if successful, could save insurers millions of pounds.

The legal team representing the families includes the specialist law firms Thompsons Solicitors and John Pickering & Partners.

Ian McFall, Head of Asbestos Litigation for Thompsons Solicitors, who act for Mrs.

Murray, explains: "What we will be asking the Law Lords to do is simple - uphold the law which requires negligent employers and their insurers to pay full compensation to mesothelioma sufferers and their families.

Anything less will be an injustice." Mary Murray, 84, from Sunderland, Tyne & Wear comments: “I have had 7 years of misery since John died from this terrible disease.

I would rather have him back any day and they could keep t...