When the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Legal Policy released its first Trial Lawyers, Inc. report, in 2003, we called asbestos litigation the longest-running mass tort in U.S. history and arguably the most unjust. Even as the incidence of new cases of the serious lung cancers caused by asbestos remained constant for mesothelioma, at 2,000 to 4,000 per year new asbestos claims exploded, nearing 100,000 in 2001.

Trial Lawyers Inc. Asbestos: A Report on the Asbestos Litigation Industry, 2008

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