RBS Global, Inc.’s Zurn unit and an average of about 100 other
unrelated companies, as of Sept. 26, 2009, were defendants in
about 5,800 asbestos related lawsuits representing about 30,400
claims.
The suits allege damages in an aggregate amount of about…
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