Asbestos Litigation Costs and Compensation
Subtitle: An Interim Report
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Published: October 25, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780833032942
Subjects: Public health & safety law; Torts / delicts; Litigation; Law; USA; Costs (Law); Current Events / American; Asbestos; Products liability; United States
First sentence: After the 1973 Borel decision (Borel v. Fibreboard, Fifth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, 1973) found asbestos manufacturers strictly liable to workers injured as a result exposure to their product, increasing numbers of product liability claims against asbestos manufacturers began to flow into the courts.