Asbestos began to be used widely in the United States in the 19th Century with the advent of steam for boats, and ships, and trains, and in factories. And in the early years of its use, asbestos was not widely known as causing disease, and it was very helpful in society.
In about the 1920s, 1930s, evidence began building that asbestos was a significant health problem. And I’m often asked, well what did the companies know? Weren’t they really in the dark?
And as a young lawyer when I pioneered this work in Michigan, the most significant piece of evidence that I found was that many, many companies that made asbestos, mined, sold, milled asbestos, had a great amount of knowledge about the health hazards of asbestos and never shared it with their workers or with consumers, and that is the gravamen of the liability case against these companies.
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