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General Motors, beseiged with class action lawsuits claiming damage from asbestos used in car parts such as brake linings, is trying to get an insurance company to pay up on the claims. 
 
It is suing Royal & Sun Alliance, in both the US and UK, for coverage relating to policies between 1954 and 1972. 
 
In a pre-trial hearing, GM claimed it had an internal memo written by a senior executive of the insurer, confirming their liability going forward; Royal & Sun claims the memo is inadmissible evidence. 
 

'Smoking gun' in asbestos case

Telegraph.co.uk - 6/24/2006 8:40 PM

Royal & Sunalliance, the insurance group, came to blows with General Motors in an American courtroom last week over a document that the giant US car manufacturer claims to be the killer evidence in its $1bn (£550m) lawsuit over personal injury liabilities linked to asbestos.
 
"It's like a smoking gun, your honour," GM's legal counsel, Edward Tessler, told the court. GM told the Oakland County Court in Pontiac, Michigan, that it had found a handwritten memo which it claims to be conclusive proof that the insurer was liable for the claims. GM alleges that the memo contains an admission of liability by one of the insurer's former senior US executives
 
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