The rights to ACME's products (and equipment to manufacture them) will be sold in bankruptcy to other companies that didn't give people cancer. These companies will continue to manufacture and sell them.
As we all know capitalism is the most efficient economic system, those 100,000 hard working people will go work for other companies. I'm sure another company that knows its products contain asbestos would love to hire the legal and PR team that has experience in suing scientists who link products to cancer.
As we all know capitalism is the most efficient economic system, those 100,000 hard working people will go work for other companies. I'm sure another company that knows its products contain asbestos would love to hire the legal and PR team that has experience in suing scientists who link products to cancer.