Senate Judiciary Brings Asbestos Litigation to the Table

photo-2WASHINGTON, D.C. - Some of the biggest names in Washington and in asbestos litigation were recently called to testify before a Senate Judiciary committee, an indication that Congress may be inching closer to the introduction of a comprehensive plan to administrate the decades-old mass tort.

During a hearing in late September, experts representing all sides of the litigation provided insight into what some have referred to as a crisis in the U.S. tort system. Others acknowledge, however, that under no other system than the country's civil courts could the asbestos litigation be kept under better control, and at the …