Asbestos Conspiracy

Attorney James Humphreys

One of the true tragedies in the asbestos litigation area is that none of it should have happened. Asbestos diseases – non-malignance, lung cancers, and mesotheliomas – are entirely preventable. And science and medicine knew of the dangers in the 19th Century.

In the 1920s there was a convention of railroads in the United States, and there was a presentation by an industrial hygienist that talked about the need to provide ventilation, mask, wet down asbestos so that it wouldn’t be airborne. And to my knowledge, none of the railroads attending that conference did any of those things to protect their workers.

In the 1920s there was a case in England. A woman named Nellie Kershaw developed an asbestos disease. She brought a lawsuit against her employer. She later died of that asbestos disease. That lawsuit in England caused the government in England to take rigorous steps to control the use of asbestos, and how workers would come in contact with it. Nothing like that was done in the United States.

In the 1930s a laboratory did tests on laboratory animals with asbestos fibers. They were not allowed to publish their findings that showed how dangerous asbestos was to lungs, and to the animals. Science knew. Many of the major companies in the field knew, but wouldn’t take the information public because they didn’t want to reduce their market share. They didn’t want to lose out to competing insulating products.

It wasn’t until 1972 that the Federal government did not ban asbestos, but regulated strictly how it could be used in most applications. To this day there’s no ban on asbestos in the United States. For the past several years members of the United States Senate have tried to pass such a ban, but have been unsuccessful.

About 2,500 to 3,000 American citizens we know contract and die from mesothelioma, an asbestos-caused cancer, every year. Not one of them should have had that disease. Tens of thousands contract lung cancer, and many die, and the others suffer horribly. Not one of them should have contracted the disease caused by asbestos fibers.

Hundreds of thousands of our citizens, of our husbands and of our fathers, and our brothers, and often our sisters and our mothers, have contracted asbestosis, and have died or suffered from that. Every single asbestos victim was a preventable victim.

The political power and the greed of corporate America prevented workers and their families from escaping this plague.

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