West Virginia asbestos claims help injured workers and their families recover money after an asbestos illness. You may have a claim even if the exposure happened decades ago. You may also have one even if the company that exposed you has closed. So this guide covers who can file, what evidence you need, who pays, … Read more
West Virginia asbestos claims help injured workers and their families recover money after an asbestos illness. You may have a claim even if the exposure happened decades ago. You may also have one even if the company that exposed you has closed. So this guide covers who can file, what evidence you need, who pays, … Read more
WV airborne asbestos dust caused mesothelioma and lung cancer in workers who never touched a piece of insulation, never broke open a flange, and never considered themselves to be asbestos workers at all. Throughout West Virginia’s industrial history — at chemical plants along the Kanawha Valley, at power generating stations on the Ohio and Kanawha … Read more
WV asbestos pipe leaks created one of the most concentrated and most overlooked asbestos exposure pathways in West Virginia industrial history. At chemical plants throughout the Kanawha Valley, at power generating stations along the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, and at steel and manufacturing facilities throughout the state, pipe leaks were a constant feature of industrial … Read more
The Pennsylvania asbestos claim deadline is the most misunderstood aspect of mesothelioma and asbestos lung cancer litigation — and the misunderstanding causes legitimate claims to go unfiled every year. Workers who were exposed to asbestos at Pennsylvania industrial facilities decades ago, and who have only recently received a mesothelioma or lung cancer diagnosis, frequently assume … Read more
WV asbestos exposure shutdown work is one of the most significant — and most frequently overlooked — asbestos exposure pathways in West Virginia industrial history. Workers who performed outage, turnaround, and shutdown maintenance at West Virginia’s power plants, chemical facilities, and steel operations during the 1950s through the 1980s accumulated some of the most concentrated … Read more
A Pennsylvania asbestos exposure lawyer does something that most people don’t expect is possible: reconstructs an occupational asbestos exposure history that occurred thirty, forty, or fifty years ago at industrial facilities that may no longer exist — from records, from product documentation, and from the accumulated case history of Pennsylvania industrial asbestos litigation — and … Read more
If you worked as a maintenance mechanic in Pennsylvania and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma or lung cancer, Pennsylvania maintenance asbestos exposure is one of the most overlooked—but strongest—occupational histories in asbestos litigation. Maintenance mechanics were not limited to one system, one department, or one trade. They worked throughout entire facilities—steel mills, power plants, chemical … Read more
If you worked as a steelworker at a Pennsylvania steel mill and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma or lung cancer, Pennsylvania steelworker asbestos exposure is one of the most thoroughly documented occupational exposure histories in asbestos litigation. Pennsylvania was the center of American steel production for most of the twentieth century — and the asbestos-containing … Read more
Pennsylvania industrial asbestos exposure created one of the most concentrated mesothelioma and asbestos lung cancer legacies in the United States. From the steel and coke corridor along the Mon Valley and Ohio River through the Lehigh Valley’s integrated steel operations, the Delaware Valley’s shipyards and refineries, the anthracite coal region’s preparation and processing facilities, the … Read more