Asbestos Liability

Companies that manufactured, distributed, and/or supplied asbestos-containing products knew, or should have known, that the products they were unleashing on the unsuspecting workforce and general public would result in the epidemic of disease realized today.

Documentation from as early as the 1920s, including the Sumner Simpson papers acquired by Ron Motley, demonstrated the health hazards of asbestos exposure and the long latency period from the point of exposure to the development of disease. Despite having direct knowledge from documentation and experiences in their manufacturing facilities that the products they were making could cause disease and death, many companies chose to put profits over lives and added asbestos fibers to their manufacturing processes.

Some companies expanded the uses for asbestos into a broader range of products, increased production of existing product lines, or began to produce asbestos-containing products after having been directly advised by medical experts that exposure to asbestos can cause lung cancer including mesothelioma. As they took these actions, companies frequently failed to both establish necessary preventative safety measures and provide employees with the adequate protection from asbestos exposure.

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