NU Online News Service, Dec. 4, 3:25 p.m. EST

Abuses in medical procedures are largely responsible for the collapse of silica litigation that tailed off just a couple of years after an explosion of cases in 2001, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

RAND noted that litigation over injuries caused by breathing respirable silica dust skyrocketed in 2001, raising concerns that silica litigation could become a mass tort with similarities to the asbestos litigation of the previous 30 years.

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