Frequent questions On the Representation Of the Company/signature In One Demand:
Much people have her doubts on the trial attorneys generally, and sometimes on the asbestos litigations also. We have listened to commentaries like, “In those times, the asbestos companies did not know more on the dangers of the asbestos that any other person”, and, “the asbestos was prohibited years ago -why so many judgments now? and,”I know which received money, and not even is ill! “
The Company/signature cannot and it does not want to defend the actions of each lawyer and client. We have our own norms we maintain and them. But the following legal facts and principles are in the heart of the litigations by the asbestos:
- Already for principles of the 1930, certain people in the industry of the asbestos knew that the asbestos caused mortal diseases of the lungs in the human beings.
- Many companies in the industry of the asbestos conspired between 1920 and 1960 hide-and-seek of the public and the workers who were in contact with the enemy with the asbestos in their work the knowledge on their dangers.
- During the decade of the 1960 many companies of the industry of portrayed it to the asbestos like “a miraculous” substance that “quality” added to the products contained that it - although they knew that he was dangerous and existed alternating substances that were not dangerous and that were easily reasonable.
- The companies that make, distribute and sell products in the market have at least one legal responsibility, if nonsocial and moral, to make sure that their products are free of danger when they are used for his deliberate intentions, and to warn to him people in an effective form if the products bring some danger.
- Equally, the employers and owners of properties have a responsibility to make sure that their sites of work and estates are not dangerous.
- Many years can pass between the contact with the asbestos and the appearance of a disease related to the asbestos. Po as much, still we faced the consequences of the pácticas and policies of the place of work of past times.
- Because enormous amounts of asbestos in many different products were used during many decades, and due to the long period of “incubation” of the asbestos diseases, much people still are dying of these
- The legal system of the United States allows the harmed people to present/display its cases to a jury whom the power has to decide on a remedy, and of being pertinent, an indemnification that it has as an aim to avoid futures cases of laborious bad conduct.
- *Nosotros we think that the people who suffer of diseases or serious incapacities caused by the contact with the asbestos have right to an indemnification, that the common decency requires that those that cause as much damage they must pay reason why they have done, and that our honest legal representation, ethical and responsible it can obtain an equitable compensation for our clients at the expense of the people in charge. To this we called justice.
Books have been written on each of these points, but nobody wants to read a book in an electronic site. There are some additional sources of intelligence here on these subjects:
- Paul Brodeur - Bad Riotous Conduct: The Industry of the Judged Asbestos; New York, Pantheon, 1985 (it appeared first in The New Yorker in 1985)
- Barry Castleman and Steven R. Berger - the Asbestos: The Medical and Legal Aspects; Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall, 1996, 4rta. edition
- Bill Ravenesi - Cleared Breath: The Landscape and the Biography of the Asbestos; Boston, Center for the Visual Arts for the Public Interest, 1991