Mesothelioma Lawyers and Attorneys:

Mesothelioma Lawyers and Attorneys:

Choosing to follow legal recourse and selecting an attorney to represent you in a mesothelioma or asbestos lawsuit are important decisions that should be made carefully. The facts of your situation and the law firm you select have a dramatic impact in the outcome of your case.

The Facts of Your Situation

Some mesothelioma patients know they worked around asbestos, but many do not know how they were exposed or how often. In fact, many people are not sure if they were ever near this carcinogen. Unfortunately, there have been thousands of products that contained asbestos - cigarette filters, hair dryers, brakes, basement and roof materials, pipes, boilers, insulation, and many other products found throughout the home and at work. If you were diagnosed with mesothelioma it is more than likely that you were exposed to asbestos multiple times in your life and that this happened decades before your diagnosis.

Fighting for Victims' Rights

Fighting for Victims' Rights:


Mesothelioma law falls into two categories: regulatory statutes, which specify what steps industry must now take to protect employees; and personal injury law (known in legal terms as tort), allowing victims to take action against institutions responsible for their asbestos exposure as well as the manufacturers of the substance.

The Fairness in Asbestos Resolution Act (SB 852) was introduced by Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) in April of 2005. This bill would have deprived citizens of the right to file suit against corporations for injuries related to asbestos. Instead, the federal government would have established a private trust fund, financed by insurance companies and responsible corporations, from which malignant mesothelioma and other asbestos victims would be compensated.

Mesothelioma Law

Mesothelioma Law:

In March of 1941, C.S. Stephenson, Commander of Preventive Medicine for the U.S. Navy, sent a memo to Rear Admiral Ross MacIntyre, which said: "We are not protecting the men as we should." Pearl Harbor was still nine months in the future; although it was generally acknowledged by the Roosevelt Administration that U.S. involvement in the war was inevitable, U.S. servicemen had yet to see combat under their own flag. What was Stephenson's issue?