JACKSON, Miss. — Dupont Co., Eastman Chemical Co. and other plastics manufactures are targets of new asbestos suits that claim makers of plastic industrial products containing asbestos are also to blame for workers health problems. The recent suits claim that such plastics, after becoming worn from use, may release health-threatening asbestos dust.

Many of the new asbestos suits have been filed in Mississippi, by attorneys acting before a new state law takes into effect capping punitive damages at $20 million for the largest corporations. The new suits extend the legal attacks on the cancer-causing substance beyond the makers of building materials.

(via Bloomberg News)