They?re baaack! Trial-lawyer-driven asbestos mass screenings, thought to be in the dustbin of history after Texas Judge Janis Graham Jack uncovered far-reaching fraud in the enterprise in 2005, have recently reappeared.

These screenings are designed to generate hundreds or thousands of plaintiffs diagnosed with lung injuries for the purpose of asbestos litigation, the trial bar?s longest-running and most lucrative mass tort.

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