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Suits over asbestos and other "hindsight torts" could conceivably help deter future injuries associated with other products by serving as cautionary examples. But once the example was well established, as seems likely with asbestos, any further suits would have negligible value as additional deterrents. 10. Whether or not potential injurers overreact (they may not if they lack effective opportunities to reduce their liability), excessive awards can increase risk in a second way: through decreased consumption of risk-reducing goods and services, such as medical care.
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31. Data supplied to the Congressional Budget Office by the Physician Insurers Association of America in spring 2003. 32. See Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Tort Trials and Verdicts in Large Counties, 1996, and Civil Jury Cases and Verdicts in Large Counties, NCJ 154346 (July 1995).
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(27) They also identified 67 bankruptcies related to asbestos litigation through 2002, up from three through 1982. Adding to that concern is the latency that occurs in the onset of asbestos-related disease, which makes it difficult to predict firms' exposure to liability and to ensure adequate compensation for victims who have yet to file claims.(28) Asbestos cases also differ from other torts in the number of firms affected. The median number of defendants in asbestos litigation was 18, compared with a median of one defendant in tort cases overall.
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