"Asbestos litigation has become a malignant enterprise which mostly consists of a massive client-recruitment effort that accounts for as much as 90 percent of all claims currently being generated, ...

A Manhattan judge ordered an overhaul of the rules that govern asbestos-litigation cases — which have been a multimillion-dollar spigot for Assemblyman Sheldon Silver’s old law firm and many others.

In New York and around the country, we count on judges and juries to get things right, but there is no way they can do their jobs if they are blindfolded from the facts. In the past few years, judges ...

The national asbestos litigation machine is running at full speed even though the system is more than five decades old. The machine is national in scope, but it only operates in relatively few state ...

Please accept the following comments to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary pertaining to the meeting scheduled for September 25, 2002 on asbestos litigation. Please make these comments part of the ...

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Key issues to be covered in this course are: Legislative Updates and Shifts Technological Advancements in Litigation Defendant Strategies and Plaintiff Claims Future Challenges and Opportunities Case ...

Asbestos—the heat-resistant, naturally occurring silicate mineral—disappeared from the manufacturing marketplace over 40 years ago. In those four decades, litigation involving asbestos has been as ...

What does Bubble-Wrap™, the popular packing material that many kids (and more than a few adults) love to “pop,” have to do with asbestos? If you answered “nothing,” you are right. If you said the ...

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This article summarizes the key challenges associated with solving the asbestos litigation problem through the Chapter 11 restructuring process, and explains why an out-of-court restructuring ...

Ronald Huber spent 35 years as a steelworker, breathing in asbestos particles he never saw. In 1995, recruited by personal-injury lawyers he had never met, he joined a class action against 200 ...