There are always two sides to every story. We all know about the big time money that was tossed around in asbestos court cases. The defendants in that scenario have been raising their voices about being treated unfairly and that they themselves were the actual victims in many cases.

A few months back ago an asbestos lawsuit caught the eye of the public. Supposedly, a Georgia based company who had allegedly paid close to $100 million dollars in asbestos settlements is now accusing health care professionals, affiliated testing companies and their lawyers of misconduct.

It is not unprecedented that defendant in asbestos cases start firing back over to the other side. However, this approach also bears a risk within. There was a case back in 1995 or 1996 where a relatively large company sued a laboratory that specializes in asbestos testing, but was eventually forced to settle in a confidentiality agreement which called compensating for other pending asbestos claims.

Further to that, suspicions surfaced that allegations of plaintiff lawyers bribing doctors in order to issue made up evidence and tweak lab reports might be actually true. Other Health Care Professionals were accused of knowingly providing data from unrelated patients to asbestos lawyers, to help them strengthening their cases.

This, of course, is illegal. There are numerous clinical studies that suggest that up to 4 % of all workers who had been exposed to asbestos at some point in their lives are likely to eventually suffer from an asbestos induced lung disease, such as cancer of the lung or asbestosis mesothelioma.

Some experts in the field of asbestos legal cases estimate an average of $52,000 being associated with each claim. A huge part of that is associated with lawyer's fees, of course.
This explains why asbestos cases are sometimes sarcastically called a “lucrative enterprise”, mostly be the defendants who feel like being taken advantage of.

As a cancer patient myself, I unfortunately can attest to the fact that cancer is a very expensive thing to deal with, even if you are fortunate enough to be covered by a good insurance plan. There are always tons of uncovered out of pocket expenses, like co-pays, medically related travel and first and foremost, costs for treatments. And to matters even worse, my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer about seven months before I received my cancer news. In some months our out of pocket expenses exceed $ 4.000,- .

The reason why I mention this is not to beg for sympathy, but to illustrate how important it is to make sure that the already high costs associated with the treatment of cancers including Mesothelioma, are not increase any further – and this is exactly what happens when greed takes over everything else.

Artificially blown up court, asbestos lawyer fees due to mischief – on either the defendant or plaintiff’s side – will ultimately affect health insurance costs. And guess who will have to pay for that? That’s right, you and I. And I don’t know about your situation, but as for me, I know for a fact that I already paid more than enough.