Outrageous Misconduct: The Asbestos Industry on Trial

392 Pages·13.079 MB·English

OUTRAGEOUS
MISCONDUCT
OTHER BOOKS
BY PAUL BRODEUR
Fiction
The Sick Fox
The Stunt Man
Downstream
Nonfiction
Asbestos and Enzymes
Expendable Americans
The Zapping of America
Restitution
OUTRAGEOUS
MISCONDUCT
The Asbestos
Industry on
Trial
PAUL BRODEUR
PANTHEON BOOKS•NEW YORK
Copyright © 1985 by Paul Brodeur.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a
division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in
Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
The material in this book appeared originally in The New Yorker,
in slightly different form.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Brodeur, Paul.*
Outrageous misconduct.
Includes index.
1. Manville Corporation. 2. Asbestos industry.
3. Asbestos industry—Employees—Diseases and
hygiene. 4. Employers’ liability. 5. Bankruptcy—
United States. I. Title.
HD9585.A66U63 1985 363.U79 85-6558
isbn 0-394-53320-8
Book design by Joe Marc Freedman
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Edition
To Ward Stephenson