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ILR study focuses on double-dipping in Virginia asbestos cases

By W.J. Kennedy | Thursday, Dec 15, 2016 @ 12:14pm

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Legal Newsline) - Legislation bringing greater transparency to an asbestos victims’ compensation system that can result in attorneys and their clients collecting multiple times for the same alleged injury is the best way to prevent duplicitous exposure claims from being made, concludes a review of court cases in Virginia's asbestos litigation “epicenter.”