Asbestos-Related Lung Cancer: Medical and Scientific Consensus Versus Imaginative Lawyering, Part I

The following is a Summary of Published Literature and Comment by J. Conard Metcalf, Of Counsel to Simmons, Browder, Gianaris, Angelides & Barnerd, LLC and Benjamin Goldstein, Ryan Kiwala, and Jean-Michel LeCointre of Simmons, Browder, Gianaris, Angelides & Barnerd, LLC. For more on the authors, please click here.

It is scientifically uncontroversial that the inhalation of asbestos fibers causes bronchogenic carcinoma, commonly referred to as lung cancer. The strength of this causative correlation along with the pervasive and decades-long history of both occupational and non-occupational asbestos exposures in the United States, has resulted in extensive, multi-jurisdictional litigation.