The asbestos cases included work on behalf of Travelers Insurance. In that case, which the Boston Globe first reported on in May 2012, Warren helped the company gain immunity from asbestos litigation by forming a $500 million trust for current and future victims. But after she was no longer involved with the litigation, Travelers was able to preserve its immunity but avoid paying the $500 million, an outcome that Warren told the Globe she hadn’t foreseen. In July 2014, a federal appeals court ordered Travelers to pay the $500 million.
Another case, this one on behalf of LTV Steel, put Warren at odds with Richard Trumka, who was then the president of the United Mine Workers and is now president of the AFL-CIO.
In that instance, Warren argued in a 1990s document to the Supreme Court to help LTV battle a new law that required it to put aside millions of dollars to fund health care for retired coal miners, according to the Globe. Warren maintained that she was supporting an important legal principle that would help workers receive aid sooner.
In testimony before Congress, Trumka argued that there shouldn’t be an exception to the rule. “When it unravels, you will have roughly 200,000 miners and beneficiaries out there that will lose their health care,” he told Congress. Trumka didn’t appear to hold a grudge, and subsequently campaigned for Warren’s 2012 Senate bid.
maybe biden should just run with this guy instead of choosing a woman
