ASBESTOS COMPANIES LIABILITY

Tragically, the companies that manufactured and marketed asbestos-containing products knew, or should have known, that the products they were unleashing on the unsuspecting American workforce and general public would many years later result in the epidemic of disease being realized today.

Medical literature documented the disease implications from the earliest days. It was no mystery that the diseases associated with asbestos exposed, like mesothelioma would not occur until decades after the exposed occurred.

The greater tragedy is that many of the companies had direct knowledge from experiences in their manufacturing facilities that the products they were making would cause disease and death, but they made the choice to put profits over lives. From the very beginning, asbestos diseases including mesothelioma occurred in anyone exposed.

While subsequent years of research have added to the knowledge of how the diseases occur, asbestos's ability to cause death and disease were documented from the time the fiber was added into manufacturing processes. Armed with all of this information, some asbestos companies expanded the uses for asbestos into a broader range of products, increased production of existing product lines, or began for the very first time, making asbestos-containing products after having been directly advised by medical experts that exposed to asbestos would cause lung cancer including mesothelioma!

The disaster of asbestos, its saga of disease and death, would never have occurred if asbestos product producers had only chosen people over profits.