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Scientific advancements could increase toxic tort litigation, experts say
Hartley As advances in molecular science develop rapidly in laboratories, legal observers wonder if toxicogenomics will provide the next holy grail for toxic tort litigation -- specific causation.
Experts say more transparency needed in asbestos trusts
Hartley Asbestos litigation expert Lester Brickman said that even with a new and possibly more sympathetic Congress, chances are "remarkably slim" that transparency measures could be enacted to show how lawyers and claimants divvy up more than $18 billion in assets from more than 54 such trusts.