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Time
1986
Countries
United Arab Emirates
The legal dispute in the 1980s concerning the health implications of asbestos was the focal point of the lengthiest and easily most expensive US mass litigation of all time. As a result of the dramatic rise in liability claims, growing legal uncertainty, million-dollar asbestos suits and new claims arising from medical malpractice and employer's liability, North American liability insurers were deep in the red.