Now don't be angry if you or someone you know has an asbestos related disease - like asbestosis, lung cancer, or mesothelioma and you are all out there blaming the company responsible for not warning you of the dangers of asbestos. exposure to asbestos fibbers has been on for decades because it was used in so many products that you or your loved one has consumed.The way forward is what should concern you know i.e take action how? Bring lawsuit against the asbestos manufacturer. Yes!
So, to take this action meaningfully, you need an asbestos lawyer. The choice of the right asbestos lawyer for your case becomes another vital issue. This is where you need some kind of discipline, read about company liability and how asbestos manufacturers tried to prevent knowledge of the hazards of asbestos from reaching the public.
Let me give you a brief on this. Starting from 1940-1970, Companies that produced asbestos-containing products who were fully aware of the dangers of asbestos but chose not to inform its employees, their workers just work blindly in this dangerous environment and get themselves exposed to a potent carcinogen on daily basis.
Internal documents found in corporate files reveal that not only did the companies have knowledge of the hazards of asbestos, but also took extra steps to prevent publication or mention of asbestos related dangers. One such case is when Sumner Simpson, the president of Raybestos-Manhatten, wrote to Vandiver Brown, head of Johns-Manville's legal department in 1935. He said, "I think the less said about asbestos the better off we are." Brown replied, "I quite agree with you that our interests are best served by having asbestosis [an asbestos caused disease] receive the minimum of publicity." In 1936, officials from asbestos manufacturing companies met in New York City to agree to secretly finance animal experiments at the Trudeau Foundation's Saranac Laboratory in Saranac, NY. Their intent was to gather data that would support a defense to lawsuits that were beginning to be brought against the asbestos companies. Before the final publication, the Saranac report had made reference to the findings that animals exposed to asbestos developed cancer. In the final report, however, all mention of the cancer was erased. In addition, the revised report was silent in its criticism of the asbestos dust threshold limit value (TLV) and previously published studies that linked asbestos with cancer. Later in 1952, discussions from as Saranac symposium that included asbestosis and cancer caused by asbestos were never published.
This "sworn secrecy" in the asbestos industry is also shown elsewhere. In 1947, the Asbestos Textile Institute (ATI) sponsored a study of textile factories by the Industrial Hygiene Foundation. The study found that the workers had asbestosis, made recommendations about medical examinations, and recommended a re-evaluation of the industry's threshold limit value for asbestos. However, these findings were never published outside of the ATI. In the 1950s, the Institute rejected funding for further cancer studies because "such an investigation would stir up a hornet's nest and put the whole industry under suspicion."
But the big question is this should we fold our hands and allow men (innocent men) die all in the name of working? This secret has been revealed, those who are already affected should go fo litigation with a good advocate.
While those who already away should desist from contact with asbestos related company or work of such.
Now, because the information about the dangers of asbestos has become public asbestos manufacturers, and the industry feared that the dangers of asbestos would be publicized and would damage profits. My advice to them is to change line of busines period and savemen from asbestosis, lung cancer, mesothelioma, and other cancers. It was no mystery that these diseases are directly the result of being exposed to asbestos. Instead of removing their employees from this harmful environment as soon as they found out about its dangers, they chose to let their workers to continue working in an asbestos hazardous environment; the asbestos companies chose to put profits over the lives of their employees - and their customers and this is very bad. The epidemic of asbestos disease and plague of death following would never have happened if asbestos manufacturers had cared more about people than profits. Lives, instead of money, would have been saved.