Most Asbestos-Related Injury Claims Filed Each Year Are Bogus?

Lester Brickman, a leading critic of asbestos litigation, says that 90 percent of all asbestos-related injury claims filed each year are bogus. He contends that more than half-million asbestos claims have been without merit, which resulted in payments to plaintiffs and their attorneys totaling more than $28.5 billion.

“Asbestos litigation has become a malignant enterprise which mostly consists of a massive client-recruitment effort that accounts for as much as 90 percent of all claims currently being generated, supported by baseless medical evidence which is not generated by good-faith medical practice, but rather is primarily a function of the compensation paid, and by claimant testimony scripted by lawyers to identify exposure to certain defendants’ products,” claims Brickman.

Brickman, who has done consulting work for asbestos defendants, makes the claims in a study to be published this month in The Pepperdine Law Review.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys dismiss Brickman’s allegations.

(via St. Louis Post-Dispatch)