Since the names of bankrupt companies do not appear on verdict sheets, asbestos plaintiffs can have double "recovery from two independent sources for the same harm," defense attorney John J. Hare, a shareholder with Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, testified in a hearing Monday in Harrisburg.

Hare told lawmakers that claimants may seek compensation both through the tort system and from asbestos bankruptcy trusts set up in the wake of manufacturers’ bankruptcies.