This is a flagrant example of the the need for tort reform. Given half a chance, unscrupulous lawyers and people looking for 'free money' will abuse the legal system. All this drives up costs, creates unnecessary litigation and is plainly wrong and unethical.
This behavior is in the same league with the Enron and WorldCom frauds. Lawyers guilty of it should be disbarred. The people particpating ought to know better.
There are, of course, legitimate cases of workers receiving injuries or contracting diseases in the course of their employment. They should recover money for bad corporate behavior.
Remember this when you see the lawyers' ads on TV trying to recruit people for class action suits. Shameful conduct!
"Jared S. Garelick, a lawyer at the Claims Resolution Management Corporation, a trust that processes asbestos-related claims, says the discovery of the other suits came after defense lawyers in the Texas case provided a list of plaintiffs to the trust. It ran the names of 8,629 plaintiffs through its database and found that 5,174 had already filed asbestos claims, probably recovering money."
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