Why not post it here?
My father is a 96 year old retired pipefitter. He was diagnosed with an asbestos related lung condition that really presents no outward impairment that the layman would notice. He get around, no oxygenEvery few months, it seems, he gets a letter from a law firm announcing a new settlement in the sum of a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. The defendants have included Babcock and Wilcox, Halliburton, Pfizer (?), Johns-Mansville, and Electric Boat. He worked in commercial construction around Western New York. Many of these companies had no presence in the area.
Everyone who has worked in an industrial or construction setting has been exposed to asbestos at some time or another, including myself. Suing companies out of existence for threats that they could not conceive at the time is completely ridiculous. Does anybody realize how many companies were destroyed by this? All over a naturally occuring mineral? The next big lawyer shark-fest is silicosis, which is sand particles being trapped in the lungs, causing cysts. Ever go to the beach? Were you working as a sandblaster? Ever come in contact with sand? Yeah, it’s that ridiculous.