The West Virginia Asbestos Database didn’t come from an outside vendor or a marketing firm—it was built by Lee W. Davis himself in 1990. Long before digital tools or spreadsheets, Davis hand-matched job sites, trades, creating the first comprehensive product identification database used in mass asbestos trials.
How the Database Was Built
In 1989-1990, while managing more than 40 cases in 2 Morgantown Courtrooms and 110 cases in a St. Mary’s, Pleasants County, WV, Davis hand-charted every job site, product name, and manufacturer using tape, poster boards, and cross-reference tags.
Each entry came from sworn testimony, union records, and product packaging—not speculation or public filings. The result was the first comprehensive West Virginia Asbestos Database, built from real courtroom evidence.
Why Competitors’ “Databases” Aren’t the Same
Many firms now advertise “asbestos product databases,” but most are generic compilations of bankruptcy filings and new testimony. None of them trace back to the original live-trial evidence that personally Davis gathered, which many firms discarded as irrelevant. When accuracy determines compensation, experience with the true source material matters.
Still the Standard—35 Years Later
Today, that same foundational database continues to guide asbestos investigations and claims across West Virginia. It has been modernized and cross-referenced with current job-site data to remain the standard for identifying responsible manufacturers and products.
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Why the Original Source Matters
Accurate product identification strengthens every mesothelioma or asbestos related lung cancer. The lawyer who built the original Product Identification Asbestos Database still uses it to help families recover compensation decades later.
But decades of personal knowledge, researching cases, talking to clients, and walking the job sites firsthand, remain more important to proving your claim than any database. Real understanding of how people lived and worked is something no spreadsheet can replace.
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