'Drastic' Increase in Premises Liability Claims Complicating Asbestos Litigation Landscape

icBendicreweries. Food processing plants. Canneries. The electric company.

Not the types of companies many asbestos litigators are used to seeing on the docket. However, a number of attorneys around the country now claim they're beginning to sense the reality that the players in this litigation have changed. And, they say, the pursuit of once-insulated companies should invoke little surprise.

For the better part of three decades, it has been the manufacturers and installers of asbestos products that have found themselves defending the majority of asbestos claims. But with many of them now bankrupt, the litigation has shifted its focus …