“If you’ve seen the TV ads looking for mesothelioma victims, WR Grace was to blame for most of them.”
No, you speak a half-truth that amounts to a lie.
“To blame” implies “found guilty”.
Spoken as it was in your sentence it implies that in the majority of claims brought to court WR-Grace was found guilty in the majority of those cases.
But, the facts are that no matter how many claims one can count that have been brought to court against WR-Grace (or anyone else in regard to asbestos), or how many cases WR-Grace (or anyone else in regard to asbestos) lost in court, the majority of claims presented have either been dismissed by the courts or the defendant was not found guilty.
Asbestos litigation has been shown to me a multi-state tort case scamming mill.
Merely being near or around asbestos does not scientifically, in medicine or anywhere else, prove asbestos to be the causative factor in some ailment that someone obtains, just because such contact is a possible factor among many other possible factors.
Hoping pliant judges and juries will ignore that science, trial lawyers have attempted to bring to court anyone that has ever come near asbestos, if they just have any ailment asbestos might possibly be one of hundreds of causative factors for, no matter their level of exposure or what medical science says about that level of exposure.
You must be a shill for WR Grace! LOL
You're taking an off hand remark and trying to parse it as a legal/scientific statement, which it was never intended to be.
The mine at Libby, MT produced a substance that killed hundreds of people, not all of them due to occupational exposures.
Merely being near or around asbestos does not scientifically, in medicine or anywhere else, prove asbestos to be the causative factor in some ailment that someone obtains, just because such contact is a possible factor among many other possible factors.<]I>
That is about a worthless statement. Of course proximity does not equal exposure, and that goes for anything, not just asbestos...substitute lead, hexavalent chromium, radiation, etc for asbestos and the statement is still correct but worthless in this context.
The people at Libby, MT weren't just near, but were exposed to asbestos. And many died from cancer caused by asbestos exposure.
Having been an indoor air quality specialist in the past (certified in asbestos and microbial inspection and remediation) I have a healthy dose of skepticism when it comes to litigation and hysteria that don't meet scientific and trade standards.
Grace executives may have escaped conviction for criminal charges (can you say "OJ Simpson"?)but the company still put out a multi billion dollar settlement. No one does that simply out of the goodness of their heart.
But you're way off base calling me a liar. Way off.
Oh, like cigarette smoke.
Good post!!