Family members also have a claim. First, you can contract mesothelioma or lung cancer just from the dust that’s on the clothing of the mother or father who brings it home from work. And we often see family members contract a disease, especially mesothelioma, that way.
The family members may also have a claim of their own without suffering the disease. For instance, in West Virginia and most states, there is what’s known as a loss of consortium claim. So if the family member who worked with asbestos becomes ill, loses their ability to function normally, or passes away, the spouse has a claim for himself or herself because of the loss of their partner. Often family members have a right through the estate activity to assert a claim.
So the individual who develops a disease, the worker, is not the only member of a family who has a legal right to seek compensation for the injuries caused by the corporations that manufactured and installed the asbestos-containing products that caused the injury.
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