Posted on 05/11/2008 5:03:50 PM PDT by CedarDave
Thanks for the ping.
Great bit.
(Yeah, I know, one is billions of dollars serious, the other is a pleasant bit of humor.)
ASBESTOS LITIGATION: FIRE IN THE COURTS Bankruptcies explode as the asbestos inferno rages on.
Res ipsa loquitor.
This is a REAL disease. My great-uncle, who never smoked, blew in asbestos insulation in ships, and died from this. The kind of lung cancer that it produces is very different than from smoking. There is a form of asbestos that is so bad that a single exposure can cause cancer many years later. Now if diagnoses and illnesses are abused by doctors and lawyers, this is another matter.
[Res ipsa loquitor.]
Thank you Learned Hand.
Anybody could have left it there.
I was a PI uncovering Workers Comp fraud. Companies would rather settle than fight because it opens their books to court review. If a company settles for say, half of the original claim, they “made” money by not losing it. Oh, we all pay the difference in higher premiums...and the shyster goes on to another state or company to to the same scam.
my fil is over 80 yrs old....
Lucky thing that you weren’t prosecuted for stealing hospital property.
***I guess that wearing PPE (which in these modern times is THE LAW) is a foreign concept to you... As seems even the tiniest bit of personal responsibility...***
When I started in this business the company I work for refused to give warnings of asbestos and other problems. PPE was available but some of the OTHER men refused to wear it because it was too hot.
I had enough sense to put something over my nose and mouth in such conditions.
As for the other man who came down with Asbestos cancer, he was a janitor who had no warning of the areas where PPE was needed.
We have had quite a few people from here who died of various cancers possibly caused by the elements here.
The plant management here thirty years was the worst possible. Now safety is TOP concern.
***This is a REAL disease. My great-uncle, who never smoked, blew in asbestos insulation in ships, and died from this.***
My father-in-law worked on Asbestos covered equipment. He died about twenty five years ago of Fiberatosis of the lungs. If you saw him struggle for breath his last days you would NEVER go without PPE today. They didn’t have PPE when he worked.
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