"I just want to thank you for your efforts on this article.   There are a number of people on Wikipedia that go to any length to criticize lawyers.  Maybe sometimes with good reason.  Often with no good reason.  It was lawyers that finally exposed the cover-up of asbestos.  I just wish it had occurred much earlier than it did.  Today, our family finally received a small settlement from Babcox-Wilcox -  TWENTY FOUR years after my dad died from mesothelioma and two years after my mother died.  Frankly, I had forgotten about it.   I'm sure my mother would have wished her last 20 years to have been with her husband.  I know I missed having a dad.   Was that worth $50,000?  Not on your life.  All that did for me is bring back memories, and the kind of grief that has never gone away.  Not even after 24 years.
Please don't stop contributing information on these issues.   The history of asbestos is or should be a cautionary tale of what happens when we believe corporations will ""self regulate"" out of their own self interest.   Ayn Rand was not a historian.  She was a fiction writer.    It is a shame that some people do not seem to understand the difference.

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