Mesothelioma victims deserve better than wasteful legal maneuvers

Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 02:30 in Health & Medicine

The macabre zero-sum game squanders millions of dollars and blights the mesothelioma patients' final days. The obvious alternative is to deal with asbestos claims administratively.John Johnson died three months ago, his body racked with malignant mesothelioma, a disease that's almost always caused by asbestos exposure. The Marine veteran had sued dozens of companies he believed shared responsibility for his condition, but he never got his day in court.

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