A federal jury has ruled that a health clinic in a Montana town where hundreds of people died from asbestos exposure submitted 337 false asbestos claims making its patients eligible for benefits such as Medicare.
A bridge that crosses the Yellowstone River in Montana collapsed, plunging a freight train carrying hot asphalt and molten sulfur into the rushing water below.The railroad company owned by billionaire Warren Buffett is also a defendant in numerous lawsuits over its own role in the town’s contamination. In 2020, Montana’s Supreme Court found BNSF liable for shipping asbestos-tainted vermiculite from a nearby mine through Libby.
BNSF Railway — controlled by billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate — alleged at a civil trial in Missoula that more than half the certifications were based on false medical submissions from CARD. The railway shipped asbestos-tainted vermiculite through Libby for decades. Dr. Black is a pediatrician by specialty and has served as the Lincoln County Health Officer. He has previously said the ailments caused by the type of asbestos found in Libby are difficult to detect and can be missed by outside radiologists.
BNSF first sued the clinic in 2019 under the False Claims Act, which allows private parties to sue on the government’s behalf. The case was sealed under court order for two years until the U.S. attorney’s office of Montana declined to intervene. Officials have not given a reason.Former Democratic U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, of Montana, helped craft the Libby provision in the health law.
At least 400 people have been killed by asbestos-related disease in the Libby area, according to health officials. Because of the long latency period for those diseases, symptoms can take decades to develop.. It polluted the Libby area over decades, including at a BNSF railway yard in the heart of the town of about 3,000 people.
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