Overview

• A federal appeals court upheld a decision that the Center for Asbestos Related Disease in Libby, Montana, submitted more than 300 false asbestos claims.
• The clinic's actions made patients eligible for Medicare and other benefits they were not entitled to receive.
• The clinic argued that its actions were approved by federal officials, but the court rejected this defense.
• Despite the ruling, the clinic will not have to pay nearly $6 million in penalties due to a bankruptcy settlement with BNSF Railway and the federal government.
• Libby, Montana, was declared a Superfund site two decades ago due to widespread asbestos contamination from vermiculite mining by W. R. Grace & Co.