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"Like a 53rd card in a deck, a SimmonsCooper asbestos suit rests in the litigation pile that Texas attorney Brent Coon brought to Madison County last month.<br /><br />Attorney Robert Ramsey of Coon&rsquo;s St. Louis office filed every case from 05L-864 to 05L-1002, except one. John Bernard of SimmonsCooper filed 05L-955.<br /><br />Apparently, a clerk broke off from filing Coon&rsquo;s suits to stamp the SimmonsCooper suit.<br /><br />SimmonsCooper plaintiff Abraham Zampella lives in upstate New York. Like Coon&rsquo;s plaintiffs, Zampella did not know he had filed a suit.<br /><br />Last week the <i>Record</i> mistakenly counted Zampella as a Coon plaintiff. <br /><br />Now that the dust of the latest asbestos explosion has settled, the score stands like this:<br /><br />Coon filed 138 suits, all on Sept. 27. (The firm also filed 33 silicosis lawsuits between Sept. 27 and 28).<br /><br />SimmonsCooper filed three on Sept. 27 and two on Sept. 28.<br /><br />Randy Gori filed one on Sept. 27 and four on Oct. 4.<br /><br />Michael Bilbrey filed five on Sept. 30 and seven on Oct. 11.<br />"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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