Asbestos FORUM ARCHIVE
In 2003, approximately 110,000 individuals filed claims alleging injury from exposure to asbestos-the most claims ever filed in a single year. To date, this longest running mass tort in American history has involved some 700,000 claimants filing suit against over 8,000 companies representing 91% of the industries in the United States. . . . Continue reading...
Criminalizing asbestos cases By Carter Wood, 06-27-2008 Directorship: annual guide to state legal climates By Carter Wood, 06-25-2008 Around the web, June 3 By Walter Olson, 06-02-2008 Retroactivity for me, but not for thee? By Walter Olson, 05-29-2008 Nanotubes are to Asbestos as Litigation is to Litigation By Carter Wood, 05-27-2008 More reaction to Trial Lawyers Inc. -- Asbestos By Walter Olson, 05-13-2008 Trial Lawyers Inc. -- Asbestos makes more waves By Walter Olson, 05-12-2008 Asbestos Ruling: Rhode Island is Not Canada By Carter Wood, 05-09-2008 Jim Copland at Overlawyered By Walter Olson, 05-08-2008 Trial Lawyers, Inc., Responds Deflects By Carter Wood, 05-08-2008 Trial Lawyers Inc. -- Asbestos By Walter Olson, 05-07-2008 One day of asbestos exposure? By Walter Olson, 04-08-2008 BREAKING: WR Grace settles By Ted Frank, 04-07-2008 Superior Scruggs gossip By Walter Olson, 03-22-2008 WSJ on Grace asbestos strategy By Walter Olson, 03-08-2008 The fortunes in asbestos law By Walter Olson, 02-13-2008 Joey Langston, big fish By Walter Olson, 01-16-2008 Delaware panel to probe surge in asbestos filings By Walter Olson, 01-06-2008 "A line in the dust" By Walter Olson, 01-03-2008 "DOJ's Free Pass for Tort Fraud" By Walter Olson, 12-27-2007 Ohio asbestos reforms By Walter Olson, 12-06-2007 NSW Dust Diseases Tribunal By Walter Olson, 12-01-2007 "Nursing background led judge to question silicosis screenings" By Walter Olson, 11-22-2007 Asbestos and the federal fisc By Walter Olson, 11-13-2007 Update: Houston lawyer's payments to insurance adjuster By Walter Olson, 11-11-2007 Asbestos awareness pre-Selikoff By Walter Olson, 10-19-2007 An asbestos expert's Beaumont background By Walter Olson, 10-17-2007 The U.S. Navy and the asbestos calamity By Walter Olson, 10-09-2007 "Defendants See a Case of Diagnosing for Dollars" By Ted Frank, 10-01-2007 Examiner series on trial lawyers, cont'd By Walter Olson, 09-30-2007 "Accuracy of 9/11 Health Reports Is Questioned" By Walter Olson, 09-07-2007 "Law firm to clients: unfortunately, you're healthy" By Walter Olson, 08-22-2007 Homeward Bound By Deborah LaFetra, 08-15-2007 Around the web, July 30 By Walter Olson, 07-30-2007 Silicosis mass screenings ruled improper By Walter Olson, 06-06-2007 More press coverage on Congoleum By Ted Frank, 05-29-2007 Brickman vs. Mencimer By Walter Olson, 05-23-2007 Another Congoleum ruling By Ted Frank, 05-21-2007 Update: Robles cops a 10-year sentence By Walter Olson, 05-07-2007 Better late than never: Illinois Supreme Court considering Lipke rule By Ted Frank, 05-03-2007 Silicosis doc surrenders license By Walter Olson, 04-27-2007 Delaware a tort destination? By Walter Olson, 04-17-2007 "Disparities Between Asbestosis and Silicosis Claims Generated By Litigation Screenings and Clinical Studies" By Ted Frank, 03-16-2007 Pa.: x-ray vans in motel parking lots not OK By Walter Olson, 03-13-2007 R.I. lead paint ruling, cont'd By Walter Olson, 02-28-2007 NYC readers: Judge Janis Jack to Speak at Cardozo By Walter Olson, 02-22-2007 "Dangerous When in Power" By Ted Frank, 02-14-2007 Asbestos bankruptcies, cont'd By Walter Olson, 02-13-2007 More asbestos liability seepage By Michael Krauss, 02-07-2007 "Judge becomes national legal star" By Walter Olson, 02-05-2007 More Baron & Budd dissension By Walter Olson, 02-02-2007 Simonetta v. Viad Corporation By Ted Frank, 01-31-2007 Cleveland asbestos sanctions, cont'd By Walter Olson, 01-22-2007 Update: disbarred asbestos lawyer By Walter Olson, 01-22-2007 Update: Ohio court finds fraud in asbestos case By Ted Frank, 01-19-2007 Readers Digest on silicosis/asbestosis scandal By Walter Olson, 01-12-2007 "Exposing the 'Phantom Epidemic' in Silica Litigation" By Walter Olson, 01-10-2007 DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Ferrante By Ted Frank, 12-16-2006 Texas politics: Fred Baron's $1.7M By Walter Olson, 12-13-2006 An "endless search for a solvent bystander" By Walter Olson, 12-11-2006 Asbestos trust fund proposals By Walter Olson, 12-09-2006 Asbestos frauds in the WSJ By Walter Olson, 12-05-2006 Dangerous Cocktail: Comparative Negligence, plus a dash of dubious Cause-in-fact, plus a tablespoon of Joint and Several Liabilty By Michael Krauss, 11-29-2006 A snapshot of asbestos litigation By Ted Frank, 11-22-2006 U.S. Navy found 55 percent responsible By Walter Olson, 11-06-2006 "3rd Circuit Revives Case Against Asbestos Class Action Lawyers" By Walter Olson, 11-03-2006 David Egilman on asbestos screenings By Walter Olson, 10-24-2006 Oct. 12 panel in D.C.: "Mass Fraud in Mass Torts?" By Walter Olson, 10-03-2006 ABA Journal on asbestos-suit trends By Walter Olson, 10-02-2006 Texas AG apologizes for seizing x-rays By Walter Olson, 09-12-2006 "Accusations of 'double dipping' surface" By Ted Frank, 09-11-2006 Asbestos double-dipping By Ted Frank, 08-28-2006 WSJ on Mich. asbestos unbundling By Walter Olson, 08-21-2006 Brickman on silica and asbestos By Walter Olson, 08-20-2006 "Silicosis Judge Erupts in Fury In Case of the Missing X-Rays" By Walter Olson, 08-19-2006 "Michigan bans bundling of asbestos injury cases" By Walter Olson, 08-15-2006 "The Silicosis Bar Association" By Ted Frank, 08-03-2006 NJ courts' Mass Tort Information Center By Walter Olson, 07-22-2006 Libby, Montana By Ted Frank, 07-19-2006 "9/11 Suit Tests New York Stand on Immunity" By Ted Frank, 06-23-2006 Texas AG investigating silicosis fraud By Walter Olson, 06-15-2006 Asbestos Strikes Back By Sam Munson, 06-12-2006 Gilbert Heintz Disgorgement By Sam Munson, 06-07-2006 Disbarred Asbestos Lawyer Arrested for Mail Fraud and Misappropriating $13.5 Million By Michael Krauss, 05-24-2006 Asbestos bill in Michigan legislature By Walter Olson, 05-24-2006 Shifting asbestos theories By Walter Olson, 05-16-2006 "A haze of dust and deception" By Walter Olson, 05-12-2006 Bird flu and disposable masks By Walter Olson, 05-09-2006 The Libby mine and W.R. Grace & Co. v. United States By Ted Frank, 05-08-2006 Ohio judge will allow scrutiny of shifting asbestos claims By Ted Frank, 05-07-2006 Olivo v. Exxon Mobil By Sam Munson, 05-03-2006 The Worst Disease By Sam Munson, 04-26-2006 Gilbert Heintz in the WSJ By Ted Frank, 04-24-2006 Congoleum case in WSJ By Ted Frank, 04-10-2006 Asbestos bill update By Ted Frank, 04-05-2006 Silicosis doctors take the Fifth By Walter Olson, 03-15-2006 Surowiecki on asbestos By Walter Olson, 03-13-2006 NPR on silicosis scandal By Ted Frank, 03-07-2006 AEI Liability Outlook: "Making the FAIR Act Fair" By Ted Frank, 03-03-2006 Madison County asbestos: one for the books (O'Connell v. Georgia-Pacific) By Ted Frank, 03-03-2006 "Derailing the scam" By Ted Frank, 02-23-2006 "Moving Toward the Fully Informed Jury" By Walter Olson, 02-21-2006 Gilbert Heintz ordered to disgorge $13 million in Congoleum case By Ted Frank, 02-20-2006 Medical criteria bill alive again? By Ted Frank, 02-17-2006 Asbestos bill opinions By Walter Olson, 02-17-2006 Specter-Leahy bill (temporarily?) dead By Ted Frank, 02-15-2006 "Democrats Warned on Asbestos Bill" By Walter Olson, 02-14-2006 "Large and Small Businesses Part Ways on Asbestos Bill" By Walter Olson, 02-10-2006 Asbestos: N.Y. Times pounds Harry Reid By Walter Olson, 02-09-2006 Asbestos bill debated By Walter Olson, 02-08-2006 BREAKING: Senate votes to allow FAIR Act debate to proceed By Ted Frank, 02-07-2006 U.K.: "Pleural plaque anxiety ruled noncompensable" By Walter Olson, 02-05-2006 D'Amato signs on with asbestos lawyers By Walter Olson, 02-02-2006 Illinois: bill would overturn "Lipke rule" By Walter Olson, 02-02-2006 Reid objects to Specter-Leahy asbestos bill By Ted Frank, 01-31-2006 USG asbestos settlement By Ted Frank, 01-30-2006 AEI panel on asbestos FAIR act By Walter Olson, 01-24-2006 Keeping "B-readers" honest By Walter Olson, 01-24-2006 "Regulating Attorney-Funded Mass Medical Screenings: A Public Health Imperative?" By Ted Frank, 01-23-2006 Wisconsin liability trip By Walter Olson, 01-21-2006 "A windfall for Madison County taxpayers" By Walter Olson, 01-19-2006 Will the FAIR Act Fix the Asbestos Mess? By Ted Frank, 01-18-2006 Those 4,202 Mississippi silicosis claims By Walter Olson, 12-22-2005 British smokers... By Walter Olson, 12-21-2005 Mississippi court tosses 4,202 silicosis claims By Walter Olson, 12-17-2005 CRC on Environmental Working Group By Walter Olson, 12-16-2005 Silica Litigation: Screening, Scheming and Suing By Michael Krauss, 12-12-2005 Texas lawyers laid off By Walter Olson, 12-08-2005 WSJ on asbestos probe By Walter Olson, 12-03-2005 The tale of Ray Harron, asbestos doctor By Ted Frank, 11-29-2005 Specter-Leahy $140 billion asbestos trust fund: insufficient? By Ted Frank, 11-25-2005 Mark Lanier on jury selection By Ted Frank, 11-15-2005 Tucker on Torkelsen and silicosis By Walter Olson, 11-13-2005 Brickman in Saturday's WSJ By Walter Olson, 11-07-2005 ASARCO bankruptcy By Walter Olson, 11-03-2005 Silicosis doctors testify VIII: the George Martindale letter By Ted Frank, 10-27-2005 "Silicosis Claims Split the Plaintiffs Bar" By Walter Olson, 10-24-2005 Asbestos: Congoleum law firm had conflict of interest By Walter Olson, 10-18-2005 Silicosis affair -- typical? By Walter Olson, 10-12-2005 NY Times on the silicosis scandal By Ted Frank, 10-09-2005 Georgia asbestos reform By Walter Olson, 09-29-2005 Washington Times editorialists By Walter Olson, 09-27-2005 ALEC Opposes Asbestos Reform Act By Jonathan B. Wilson, 09-21-2005 Laminack: clients didn't have asbestosis after all By Walter Olson, 09-07-2005 Unearthing asbestos-suit misconduct By Walter Olson, 08-27-2005 Silicosis scandal By Walter Olson, 08-24-2005 New from the Washington Legal Foundation By James R. Copland, 07-29-2005 "Hit With a Surge in Asbestos Claims, States Confront the 'Unsick'" By Ted Frank, 07-22-2005 Asbestos: "a plaintiff's bar run amok" By Walter Olson, 07-21-2005 New York grand jury also going after asbestos plaintiffs? By Ted Frank, 07-20-2005 Silicosis doctors testify: denouement By Ted Frank, 07-15-2005 "Ethical Issues in Asbestos Litigation" By Ted Frank, 07-11-2005 Joseph R. Biden III By Ted Frank, 07-06-2005 Asbestos defense blog By Walter Olson, 06-12-2005 Update: Whittington v. U.S. Steel and Madison County asbestos shenanigans By Ted Frank, 06-10-2005 Alabama asbestos-ad antics By Walter Olson, 06-09-2005 Texas asbestos and silica reform By Walter Olson, 06-08-2005 Rand Corp. on asbestos By Walter Olson, 06-03-2005 Progress of federal asbestos bill By Walter Olson, 05-17-2005 Asbestos reform: Texas, Florida victories By Walter Olson, 05-16-2005 Florida showdown By Walter Olson, 05-02-2005 Texas Senate OKs asbestos reform By Walter Olson, 04-29-2005 Florida teaching hospitals seek med-mal relief By Ted Frank, 04-21-2005 Construction supply, Esq. By Walter Olson, 04-14-2005 "Learning from Asbestos Lawsuits" By Walter Olson, 04-09-2005 From the archives: forum-shopping punished By Walter Olson, 04-04-2005 Silicosis doctors testify VI By Ted Frank, 03-21-2005 Silicosis doctors testify V By Ted Frank, 03-16-2005 Silicosis doctors testify IV By Ted Frank, 03-14-2005 "A Review of Asbestos Litigation" By Walter Olson, 03-07-2005 Silicosis doctors testify III By Ted Frank, 03-02-2005 Specter on the asbestos bill By James R. Copland, 03-01-2005 Fen-Phen Follies By James R. Copland, 03-01-2005 Silicosis doctors testify II: "Great red flags of fraud" By Ted Frank, 02-27-2005 Silicosis doctors testify By Ted Frank, 02-17-2005 "A Well-Oiled Machine" By Walter Olson, 02-15-2005 Memories of meritlessness By Walter Olson, 02-10-2005 Silica double-dipping By Ted Frank, 02-02-2005 Taylor on Bush reforms By James R. Copland, 01-31-2005 Bush: "I'm here to talk about how we need to fix a broken medical liability system." By Ted Frank, 01-06-2005 Madison County asbestos slowdown? By Walter Olson, 01-03-2005 Silica castle erodes suddenly By Walter Olson, 12-21-2004 Ohio enacts wide-ranging liability reforms By Walter Olson, 12-20-2004 WSJ asbestos editorial By Walter Olson, 11-17-2004 Chances for federal legislation By Walter Olson, 11-10-2004 Australia: "Asbestos caused psychiatric injury" By Walter Olson, 10-19-2004 Houston Chronicle on asbestos By Michael DeBow, 10-11-2004 Madison County asbestos: the beginning of the end? By Ted Frank, 10-07-2004 Fred Baron: I'm outta asbestos By Walter Olson, 10-07-2004 Post-Dispatch on asbestos "rocket docket" By Walter Olson, 10-05-2004 Asbestos: Illinois's "Lipke rule" By Walter Olson, 10-01-2004 Post-Dispatch on Illinois venue By Walter Olson, 09-28-2004 Warn about that sand, or else By Walter Olson, 09-22-2004 St. Louis Post-Dispatch on asbestos By Walter Olson, 09-20-2004 Asbestos: Pfizer's Quigley bankrupt By Walter Olson, 09-08-2004 Mississippi high court thwarts "perversion" of legal system By Leah Lorber, 08-27-2004 Ohio asbestos-silica law By Walter Olson, 08-20-2004 MedPundit on asbestos By Walter Olson, 08-18-2004 Junk science in asbestos litigation By James R. Copland, 08-17-2004 Asbestos bankruptcy coverage By Walter Olson, 08-03-2004 Rebuked asbestos judge joins asbestos advisory firm By James R. Copland, 07-30-2004 Lester Brickman's testimony today on asbestos litigation By James R. Copland, 07-21-2004 Asbestos suits: a small business problem, too By Walter Olson, 07-14-2004 Popcorn butter: suppliers win one By Walter Olson, 06-30-2004 "Asbestos Free Texas" woos GOP By Walter Olson, 06-17-2004 Asbestos: goodbye to another insurer By Walter Olson, 06-10-2004 The phantom risk of "toxic" mold By James R. Copland, 06-08-2004 Wall Street Journal highlights asbestos bankruptcy scams By James R. Copland, 06-03-2004 Update: "Asbestos exposed" By Ted Frank, 05-19-2004 Mississippi changes venue and joinder rules By Ted Frank, 05-18-2004 Asbestos: send in the prosecutors? By Walter Olson, 05-17-2004 The Lawsuits of Madison County By Ted Frank, 05-17-2004 Cost of U.S. liability sector in 2002: $233 billion By Walter Olson, 05-16-2004 Silica lawsuits: castles from sand By Walter Olson, 05-15-2004 "Suits on Silica Being Compared to Asbestos Cases" By Ted Frank, 05-13-2004
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