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• copy of ‘UK asbestos – the definitive guide’ (2004), produced by a working party under chairmanship of Julian Lowe of Norwich Union
• Nancy Tait's notes on the text and correspondence with Rodney Nelson Jones of Field Fisher Waterhouse

The guide discusses the estimated future cost to the UK insurance industry of asbestos-related claims (£4-£10 billion), November 2004. Nelson-Jones suspected that the insurance industry exaggerated these costs.

Printout of the OEDA case database in the form of a table, 28 July 2003. 171 pp, listing cases 2-3650 (with gaps) and cases 4001-10,000 (with extensive gaps), followed by a few rows with anomalous case numbers. This and other indicators suggest that there may have been a technical problem with the database.

The printout appears to have been generated to support OEDA's case for continued funding from Association of London Government (ALG; formerly the London Boroughs Grant Unit, LBGU), the organisation's main source of funding since 1983.

Includes:

• note from Nancy Tait proposing to use this printout, rather than the electronic database, to record important updates henceforth
• overview of codes and what each column in the database is intended for

Papers and a little covering correspondence re the proposed US Senate bill ‘to amend the Toxic Substance Control Act to reduce the health risks posed by asbestos-containing products’ and the contemporary asbestos compensation crisis in the US. Includes

• copy of Senator Murray’s proposed bill
• copies of Judge Griffin B Bell’s June 2002 speeches on asbestos litigation and judicial leadership

In Nancy Tait's circles, people monitoring these developments included Own Tudor, Laurie Kazan-Allen and Adrian Budgeon.

Photocopy of Code of federal regulations (revised 1 July 1997), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763 - Asbestos (Subpart E - Asbestos-containing materials in schools).

Table of cases 3001-3735 (11 August 1997-13 March 2007), largely in chronological order.

Capturing name, disease, date contacted OEDA, solicitor (name and date contacted), SMB (Special Medical Board) decision awarded/refused, comments.

This schedule marks a departure from previous practice, in that columns that remained empty in past registers have been removed. Also, the third column now bears the new name of the organisation.

Photocopy of Code of federal regulations (revised 1 July 1997), EPA, 40 CFR Parts 61 to 62 (Subpart M - national emission standard for asbestos)

Copy of the booklet

Copy of typescript (ring-bound) Expert Panel report, prepared at the request of Royal Society of Canada.

INSERM = Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, i.e. the French biomedical and public health research institution created in 1964.

Copy of London Hazard Centre (1995) 'Asbestos hazards handbook'. Nancy Tait was one of the five invited speakers at the press conference to launch this publication.

Photocopy of OSHA 'Asbestos standard for the construction industry' (OSHA 3096, 1995 [Revised])

Display board on SPAID's 'Tackle a tiddler' competition, 1993. Labelled 'SPAID'.

1 poster, two colours.

In addition to Nancy Tait, speakers included Prof. Lorenzo Tomatis (International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon), Prof. Franco Berrino (Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan), Prof. Henri Pézerat (CNRS, Paris), Bianca Guidetti Serra (lawyer, Turin), Yves Frémion (member of the French Green Party & member of the European Parliament), Prof. Annie Thébaud-Mony (Inserm, Paris), Dr Emanuele Lauria (USL Grugliasco, Turin), Maria Wojtowicz (USL Grugliasco, Turin), Dr Vito Totire (USL 28 Bologna), Richard Jackson (Ban Asbestos, UK) and Elisabeth Ramat (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL) Nazionale).

Organisatorial correspondence and papers.

Photocopy of Federal Register (13 May 1992), EPA, 40 CFR Part 763.

Copies of 'Asbestos watch: newsletter of the White Lung Association' 1991-1995 (incomplete set) and of 'Asbestos update' May 1995-September 1998.