High Court Should Send Strong Signal in Asbestos Cases

photo-2photo-3icTendiche U.S. Supreme Court in Amchem Prods. Inc. v. Windsor (1997) candidly acknowledged that this country is in the midst of an "asbestos-litigation crisis." Claims continue to pour in at an extraordinary rate, scores of employers have been forced into bankruptcy, and payments to the sick are threatened. This term, the Court has an important opportunity to address the crisis in Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Freeman Ayers et al., No. 01-963.