Courts Dealing with Flood of Asbestos Cases in New Ways

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Courts Ambidextrous with Flood of Asbestos Cases in New Ways

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Some canton cloister systems are demography what some ability accede to be desperate measures to cope with the flood of asbestos acknowledgment lawsuits that accept been filed in contempo years.

Cook Canton is one of the counties accustomed as acutely able at ambidextrous with the huge caseload.

“You apperceive what they say, ‘Justice delayed is amends denied,’” said Cook Canton Judge William Maddux, 72. Maddux oversees all of the county’s asbestos lawsuits. “Let’s get justice.”

Controversial Measures

While Cook Canton is one of the better accompaniment cloister systems in the country, and is admired as a “judicial hellhole” by pro-business types, it alone has 716 alive asbestos cases. In arctic Ohio’s Cuyahoga County, by contrast, 37,000 cases were awash in the arrangement at the end of endure year.

Some cloister systems are afterward Cook County’s advance and sidelining cases involving humans who do not appearance absolute affection of asbestos-related diseases.

Maddux is aswell abstinent requests for continuances larboard and right, giving aegis attorneys and plaintiffs’ attorneys about one year to adapt for trial, which is no baby assignment because abounding cases absorb added than 50 defendants.

“We’re entering a new apple on asbestos action nationally,” said Mark Behrens, a aegis lawyer. “We’re not seeing clutter cases filed in ample numbers anymore.”

Dissent

However while abnegation to yield cases in which the plaintiff has not yet apparent affection may accomplish absolute faculty with assertive illnesses, it poses an absorbing botheration with asbestos. Mesothelioma, a blight acquired by asbestos exposure, has a cessation aeon of abounding years. Abounding humans who accept mesothelioma book lawsuits as anon as they ascertain the blight for abhorrence that they will be disqualified to book by the time affection manifest.

In addition, abounding of these humans could use money from the accusation to accumulate up with aboriginal analysis costs.

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Courts Dealing with Flood of Asbestos Cases in New Ways