Avoiding Apportionment in Favor of Joint & Several Liabilities
Back in 2008, Professor Michael Green wrote an interesting paper on apportionment in asbestos litigation. The paper sets out an argument that apportionment is a 20th century reform of American tort...
View ArticleFinding Big Blue
The Washington Supreme Court recently upheld an $81.5 million verdict, against GPC and NAPA, in an asbestos peritoneal mesothelioma case. The award included $30 million for loss of consortium. Coogan...
View ArticleReference Manual – Desiderata for 4th Edition – Part I – Signature Diseases
The fourth edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is by all accounts under way. Each of the first three editions represented an improvement over previous editions, but the last edition...
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Selikoff Timeline & Asbestos Litigation History (Revised)
The critics and cheerleaders of Dr. Irving John Selikoff agree that he was a charming, charismatic, and courageous man, a compassionate physician, and a zealous advocate for worker safety and health....
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The Dodgy Origins of the Collegium Ramazzini
Or How Irving Selikoff and His Lobby (the Collegium Ramazzini) Fooled the Monsanto Corporation Anyone who litigates occupational or environmental disease cases has heard of the Collegium Ramazzini. The...
View ArticleCollegium Ramazzini & Its Fellows – The Lobby
Back in 1997, Francis Douglas Kelly Liddell, a real scientist in the area of asbestos and disease, had had enough of the insinuations, slanders, and bad science from the minions of Irving John...
View ArticleThe Maestro and Mesothelioma – Wikipedia & False Claims
The Maestro is a biographical film of the late Leonard Bernstein. The film, starring Bradley Cooper as Bernstein, had a limited release before streaming on Netflix. As a work of biography, the film is...
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David Egilman, Rest in Peace – Part 1
After close to a 40 year career as a testifying expert witness, David Egilman died earlier this month.[1] He was a work horse of the lawsuit industry. Although he made plenty of money as a retained...
View ArticleFraudulent Asbestos Diagnoses Redux
An Associated Press journalist reported on an appeal from an interesting judgment, which few other journalists have followed.[1] Last week, Matthew Brown filed a report on an appeal before the Ninth...
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