Asbestos can be a big problem in the home if it is not taken care of immediately. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s builders were using subpar materials to build homes in the US. These subpar materials lent to asbestos outbreaks in the home and many people got sick. A specialist lawyer can take building companies to court for using negligence while building homes to hopefully reclaim some of the money to pay for the health problems that arise from asbestos infection. Usually asbestos lawyers focus on other areas of the law for most of their time, but occasionally they will take on asbestos cases to make up for the damages caused by reckless building.