Comments on: Supreme Court hears “bare-metal” asbestos case

By: Rusty Bill

Rusty Bill — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 13:35:15 +0000

Go for the really deep pockets – sue the governments that maintained the roads that the refrigerators (see above) were shipped on. And the companies that made the trucks. And the “Get Your Class A License” driver training schools. And the… oh, hell, just sue everybody.

By: Canvasback

Canvasback — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 03:15:50 +0000

Of course. Asbestos paraphernalia. Why didn’t they think of it sooner? It’s been a staple of the drug war for decades. I’ll bet some companies advertised saw blades for asbestos sheets by promising “minimal dust.” Or maybe their cheapest shipping method for asbestos spray coating required batch mixing by the end user. These companies were all part of the asbestos applications industry. Without them, well it just couldn’t have been done without them.

By: MattS

MattS — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:55:47 +0000

In reply to Heresolong.

“At what point is this whole thing just a ludicrous money grab.”

About 30 years ago…

By: Heresolong

Heresolong — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 22:42:30 +0000

We might call this the any-pockets theory of legal liability. How about the grocery store that sold groceries to the workers or the executives? What if my company sold refrigerators to the grocery store that sold groceries to the workers at the company that made the metal that was then sold to the company that made the asbestos? At what point is this whole thing just a ludicrous money grab.