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Mass Tort Update Asbestos Update
Part 8: Most Important Product Liability Case in American History
The Asbestos Story: America's Greatest Industrial Tragedy
A Tale of Deceit, Design & Temerity
By Christopher M. Placitella
Cohen, Placitella & Roth, P.C.
In October of the same year, Ward Stevenson of Texas files a lawsuit on behalf of Clarence Borel. Clarence Borel is an insulator with Asbestosis and mesothelioma. Unbeknownst to everyone at the time, this will become one of the most important product liability cases in American history.
In 1973, the Asbestos industry actually commissions a survey to determine the level of the public's awareness concerning the dangers of Asbestos. Matthew Sweetonic, the director of the Asbestos industry's leading lobbying group, the Asbestos Information Association, reports the results of this survey at a meeting in Washington, D.C. He tells the crowd that he has good news and bad news.
First, the bad news: Dr. Selikoff's estimate concerning how many people will die from Asbestos is far too low.
Our prediction is that approximately 25,000 past and present employees in the Asbestos industry have died or will eventually die of Asbestos related disease.
But do you want to hear the good news?
And the good news is that despite all the negative articles on Asbestos-health that have appeared in the press over the past half dozen years, very few people have been paying attention.
These results should be reassuring to those industry customers who fear that the general public will stop buying their products because they contain Asbestos.
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