RBS Global, Inc.’s Zurn division and an average of 80 unrelated
companies, as of July 3, 2010, were defendants in about 6,000
asbestos related lawsuits representing about 27,000 claims,
according to the Company’s quarterly report filed on Aug. 4, 2010…
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