All posts tagged: "Asbestos"

Silicosis Ruling Could Revamp Legal Landscape - npr.org legal affairs

This 2006 article by Wade Goodwyn in NPR legal affairs shows how mass tort plaintiff lawyers use the medical screening process to file questionable lawsuits for silicosis and asbestos claims.  The judge in this case, Janice Graham Jack, accuses the doctors and lawyers of “legal and medical fraud.”

Regulation through Litigation - Point of Law.com

Walter Olson writing in Point of Law in 2005 shows us the seeds that were sown, which are the sources of The Wilderness and its encroachment on legal civilization.