The once popular fire-retardant material asbestos causes lung cancer. A sick worker, the Englishwoman Nellie Kershaw, filed the first claim for damages against her employer 100 years ago. She died in 1924 before a verdict was reached. To this day, asbestos victims demand compensation from employers, manufacturers, dealers and homeowners. The liability insurers of the defendant companies often had to and still have to pay for the damages. According to calculations by the rating agency AM Best, they will have paid around $100 billion for asbestos damage by the end of 2022.
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