ECA Environmental & Product Liability Litigation Report

For decades in asbestos litigation, personal injury law firms have been able to bring claims on behalf of their clients against two, independent compensation systems. The first is the tort system where public lawsuits are filed against dozens of corporate defendants and pursued in various state and federal courts across the country. The second is the asbestos bankruptcy trust system, which allows plaintiff attorneys to file claims against dozens of trusts on behalf of the same tort clients with little to no transparency or coordination with the parallel tort lawsuits.