Often times it’s left to the family members to provide the help that’s necessary to make sure that the person in their family diagnosed...
The unions in Michigan that are most afflicted and have spent a lot of time and concern in the later years in dealing with asbestos-related...
The interesting thing about how somebody acquires this disease is that two people can work side-by-side for years and years, and one person...
Mesothelioma Lawyer Video
When people come to see me they also often ask what happens in a Mesothelioma trial. I have tried number of those cases in a number of states. A...
We’ve had many cases out of the General Motors, Ford and Chrysler plants in the state of Michigan, and elsewhere. Not necessarily...
Mesothelioma is only caused by exposure to asbestos. The doctors refer to it as a signal tumor, meaning that when they see the diagnosis of...
When a person is first diagnosed, they may not feel bad at all. They may be walking around and pretty able. And so they’re...
Family members also have a claim. First, you can contract mesothelioma or lung cancer just from the dust that’s on the clothing of...
Frequently I’m asked, I’ve worked in a building and I’ve been exposed I think to asbestos by removal. Am I at risk?...
You know, everyone knows what latency is. If I have a cold and you’re exposed to me, two or three or four days later you may get a...
I’ve been representing mesothelioma victims for fourteen years now, and the typical client is someone who was exposed to asbestos in either...
My mesothelioma clients range from folks who have just been diagnosed with the disease to the families of people who have passed away from...
What is a Mesothelioma Attorney? A Mesothelioma Attorney is an attorney who has a general background in the law but focuses his or her...
Mesothelioma treatment options include chemotherapy, surgery, and new clinical trials. And they really depend on the individual. If I...
Maritime law has developed over the period of probably 200 years of the history of the Republic. It was designed to make sure that...
I frequently hear defense attorneys tell juries my client’s product is not dangerous because the asbestos in my client’s product was...
What can you expect in a Mesothelioma case? A Mesothelioma case generally takes somewhere between a year and two years to resolve either by...
The best resources that we have in our law firm for the handling of asbestos litigation are the people that work on the cases. Having begun...
As hard as it is for people to believe, asbestos-related diseases are not new. They began occurring in the United States in the early...
My goal in representing mesothelioma victims is to try to get them some compensation for their disease. Unfortunately, I can’t...
Mesothelioma exposure occurs from all forms of asbestos at really any level. Unlike other cancers and asbestosis, Mesothelioma exposure can happen...
People often ask me, “Is the asbestos litigation over? Are not all of those companies bankrupt?” The answer to that...
We see a great amount of disease in trades that work directly with the products. Pipes and boilers, and cement products such as the pipe...
The great amount of the cases that we have handled over more than three decades have involved tradesmen, factory workers, steel workers, and...
Malignant Mesothelioma is a cancer of the lining of the lung and/or the abdomen. Malignant Mesothelioma is almost always associated with exposure...
Clients often ask me, how long will this take, and what will I get out of it? And I can’t honestly and ethically tell them...
What is Asbestos Exposure? Asbestos exposure occurs primarily when people work on construction sites or they are in factories where...
Before anybody hires a mesothelioma lawyer, they should look for two things. They should look for somebody who has the experience in the...
Many people ask me how much of an exposure do I have to have to asbestos dust before I’m likely to develop lung cancer or mesothelioma?...
I’ve handled a number of cases of aircraft mechanics who were exposed to asbestos by virtue of the work they did on airplanes. And...
In every asbestos case that is litigated, in every mesothelioma case, the plaintiff has the burden of proving not only the disease that he’s...
When talking about mesothelioma, there’s a concept called latency that often comes up. Latency in simple terms is the length of...
Occupations and industries where one is more likely to find asbestos victims, and particularly mesothelioma victims and lung cancer victims,...
A common question is where was I exposed to asbestos? What jobsites were these on? Because I’ve been all over the place....
The biggest challenge in working a mesothelioma case or a lung cancer case is product identification. So many people went to work,...
About mesothelioma warnings: It’s an interesting question. People say well, why wasn’t I warned, I had a right to know. And I believe...
It’s absolutely essential that there be what we call product identification or product I.D. of the asbestos-containing products that the...
You know, there are three types of lawyers. The first type is the type that buys as television ad, gets...
Because of the years we’ve had working for families and victims in this area, we know that when mesothelioma strikes a family, or lung...
Asbestos products run the gamut from thermal insulation products all the way down to household items. The bulk of the asbestos that was...
The number of products that contain asbestos were over 3,000. Now that’s a large, large number. And with each case going back...
A common misconception is that asbestos cases are part of a class action, and that these cases were handled and done with years ago, and...
I’d like to mention something about lung cancer first, because if someone develops mesothelioma after many years of...
How much asbestos exposure is required before one is going to get a disease, or at least is in a category where that risk for a disease such as...
Asbestos has never been banned in the United States. Its use has been curtailed because of the imposition by certain regulatory bodies in the...
Asbestos is a fiber that’s mined from the ground. There are three primary types of asbestos that are used in industry. Chrysotile...
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