“I fell into asbestos litigation by luck,” says Mr. Bergmark. “It didn’t take me long to fall in love with the clients and this work. I’ve handled personal injury cases before, and there’s something incredibly rewarding about helping people who have been harmed by the greed and lack of consideration of others. But asbestos litigation allows me to hit corporations who caused harm to hard working victims. They caused harm through negligence and lack of care, sometimes with the most deplorable intentions. This work drives me like no other.”

“Our clients are some of the best of the best, and the defendant companies are some of the worst of the worst. Our clients did not place themselves in a situation to bring this harm on to themselves. They entrusted their health and safety to businesses that made, distributed, sold, and handled products — and specified how they should be used — by and around my clients. But my clients were not provided knowledge of the risk, or appreciation of the deadly nature, of the products to which they were exposed.

“The corporations who abused and betrayed that trust take callous disregard and recklessness to a whole different level. They put their employees’ lives in danger every day just to save money so they can make even more money for their owners and shareholders. Their actions are beyond contempt,” Mr. Bergmark emphasizes.