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This site is dedicated to providing important information on Mesothelioma & mesothelioma cancers. We help mesothelioma patients and families make educated decisions about how to proceed with filing Mesothelioma and mesothelioma claims.
Those dealing with mesothelioma face a number of challenges, including the tremendous costs of treatment. If you were unknowingly exposed to harmful levels of Mesothelioma, you have legal rights and there is help available for you.
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Law firms that we work with concentrate only on Mesothelioma mesothelioma cases. We have experience with placing people with experienced mesothelioma law firms for five years. We will actually walk you the process of connecting you with an experienced Mesothelioma mesothelioma claims lawyer in your state.
We help Mesothelioma and mesothelioma patients and their families get in touch with legal and medical professionals. We help keep the public aware of new discoveries in treatments for Mesothelioma and Mesothelioma cancers. We also maintain a current online Mesothelioma Dictionary of Legal & Medical Terms and we keep you up to date on current legal settlements for Mesothelioma cases.
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Deciding which law firm to represent you and your case is very important. Choosing the right law firm will also be important to your settlement. You are entitled to an experienced mesothelioma claims lawyer who has a track record of success in mesothelioma lawsuits
Mesothelioma Claims - LOSS OF A LOVED ONE
If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, or a family member has died as a result, you may be entitled to recover compensation from the companies that made these Mesothelioma products.
Mesothelioma Claims – FILING A LAWSUIT
It is not uncommon for there to be 10-20 parties that are named in a mesothelioma lawsuit that are located across the United States. For example, a worker in California may have been exposed to Mesothelioma from Mesothelioma products shipped from Libby, Montana or from an iron ore plant in St. Paul Minnesota. This is why it is very important to obtain an experienced mesothelioma claims lawyer that knows all of the companies in each state who have responsibility for your Mesothelioma exposure.
This site is dedicated to providing important information on Mesothelioma & mesothelioma cancers. We help mesothelioma patients and families make educated decisions about how to proceed with filing Mesothelioma and mesothelioma claims. Those dealing with Mesothelioma cancers face a number of challenges, including the tremendous costs of treatment. If you were unknowingly exposed to harmful levels of Mesothelioma, you have legal rights and there is compensation help available for you.
Mesothelioma Lawyer - EXPERIENCE Law firms that we work with concentrate only on Mesothelioma mesothelioma cases. We have experience placing people with experienced Mesothelioma lawyers for five years. We will actually walk you the process of connecting you with an experienced Mesothelioma lawyer in your state.
We help Mesothelioma and Mesothelioma patients and their families get in touch with legal and medical professionals. We help keep the public aware of new discoveries in treatments for Mesothelioma and Mesothelioma cancers. We also maintain a current online Mesothelioma Dictionary of Legal & Medical Terms and we keep you up to date on current legal settlements for Mesothelioma cases.
Mesothelioma Lawyer - CHOICES Deciding which law firm to represent you and your case is very important. Choosing the right lawyer will also be important to your settlement. You are entitled to an experienced mesothelioma lawyer who has a track record of success in Mesothelioma lawsuits
Mesothelioma Lawyer - LOSS OF A LOVED ONE
If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with an Mesothelioma cancer, or a family member has died as a result, you may be entitled to recover compensation from the companies that made these Mesothelioma products
.Mesothelioma Lawyer – FILING A LAWSUIT
It is not uncommon for there to be 10-20 parties that are named in an Mesothelioma lawsuit that are located across the United States. For example, a worker in California may have been exposed to Mesothelioma from Mesothelioma products shipped from Libby, Montana or from an iron ore plant in St. Paul Minnesota. This is why it is very important to obtain an experienced mesothelioma lawyer that knows all of the companies in each state who have responsibility for your Mesothelioma exposure.
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New Mesothelioma Cases
It has been well documented for many years that Mesothelioma exposure can result in the development of deadly cancers, particularly Mesothelioma.
Mesothelioma has a latency period of 20 to 50 years after the first exposure to Mesothelioma. It is estimated that there will be about 250,000 cases of Mesothelioma before 2020.
There are currently about 3000 new cases of Mesothelioma diagnosed per year, mostly in men over the age of 40. About 4,000 People die from Mesothelioma every year, the rare cancer caused by Mesothelioma exposure. During the 20th century, some 30 million tons of Mesothelioma were used in industrial sites, homes, schools, shipyards and commercial buildings in the U. S.
Through 2003, more than 700,000 People have filed claims against more than 6,000 Mesothelioma companies. These same companies knew of the dangers for many years before ever warning the public of those risks. It is thought that around eight million people in the United States have been exposed to Mesothelioma over the past half a century, and many more cases - are expected to be reported in the next 25 years.
The National Institute of Health in 1978 estimated that eight to eleven million U.S. workers had been exposed to Mesothelioma by that date. In fact, by 1970, it is estimated that some 25 million tons of Mesothelioma were used in the U.S.
Mesothelioma Legislation
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Mesothelioma victims and their family members, including the widow of former Minnesota Rep. Bruce Vento, are opposing legislation to settle the nation's mass of Mesothelioma injury suits. In the latest twist in a Byzantine lobbying battle, groups financed by trial attorneys are encouraging tens of thousands of workers sickened from breathing the fibers to contact their congressmen.
Susan Vento, whose husband died Oct. 10, 2000, of the rare cancer mesothelioma, said she wrote 42 letters last week urging senators, including Minnesota's Mark Dayton and Norm Coleman, to vote "no."
The legislation, she wrote, is "unjust, unfair and cruel."
The bill, narrowly approved in July by the Senate Judiciary Committee, would create an industry-bankrolled trust fund of at least $108 billion and perhaps exceeding $153 billion to compensate sick workers and their families over 25 years. It would set a compensation schedule for a range of Mesothelioma-related illnesses, topped by $1 million payments to mesothelioma victims.
Since clearing the committee, the bill's sponsors have struggled to hold together support from insurers and defendant companies -- the same firms that pushed for a global settlement to curb the seemingly endless flood of claims. Insurers said this week that they would pay no more than $45 billion, as much as $29.5 billion less than their obligations under the bill, instead urging a return to the courts if funds run out. And the AFL-CIO says the compensation is still inadequate for victims.
While Senate leaders from both parties seek a compromise, plaintiffs' attorneys are stepping up their opposition. Several trial lawyers have formed the Committee to Protect Mesothelioma Victims and hired the Washington Group, a lobbying firm co-founded by Luverne, Minn., native Rita Lewis.
Lewis in turn hired Direct Design Communications, a direct-mail operation that has sent 80,000 letters appealing to Mesothelioma victims nationwide to press their senators to vote no, said one of its partners, Michael Tucker. A Minneapolis consulting firm, Grassroots Solutions, co-founded by former Wellstone campaign aide Dan Cramer, is assisting the new committee.
Lewis also asked Susan Vento, a contract negotiator for the statewide teachers union Education Minnesota, to lend her influence.
Vento contends the bill is full of flaws. For example, she called it "unconscionable" that the bill would nullify settlements reached but not yet fully paid, forcing those victims "to start over with the process."
"It's going to cause families to revisit the pain and anxiety of this disease and all that their family members went through," she said.
In addition, she predicted, the startup of the trust fund would bring a surge of hundreds of thousands of claims, creating a bottleneck for victims with just months to live. Courts in many states have put those victims' suits on a fast track.
And, Vento said, even the sickest victims would be forced to again undergo tests to prove they qualify.
"If you're dying from mesothelioma, it's horrible," she said, recalling how her husband underwent similar tests days before he died. "I will never forget that day. He was thoroughly exhausted . . . He was never the type to be claustrophobic, but when you have a lung condition and all of a sudden you have these machines wrapped around you, it can be very difficult."
Gearing for a fight
Jeff Cooper, an Edwardsville, Ill., attorney whose firm is helping bankroll the victims' committee, said some of his mesothelioma clients have spent more than $1 million on medical bills and could get nothing under the current bill. Insurers would be allowed to recover their medical payments after the victims are compensated.
Vento also decried the bill's lack of money for research on mesothelioma, which afflicts about 3,000 people each year and gets little federal research funding.
Vento, whose husband represented St. Paul for 24 years, said she fears that Republican Sen. Coleman will vote for the measure.
Coleman spokesman Tom Steward said the senator "believes that Mesothelioma legislation . . . is the right thing to do" but is waiting to see the final bill.
Dayton spokeswoman Chris Lisi said the Democratic senator has not decided on the bill's merits and doubts it will make progress this year.
Trial lawyers, however, are preparing for a fight.
"We're considering advertising" on the Mesothelioma issue, said Carlton Carl, a spokesman for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. "Most of our members have informed their clients about what's going on, and they're outraged."
Mike Sieben, an attorney with the Hastings law firm of Sieben, Polk, LaVerdiere & Dusich, which handles most Minnesota Mesothelioma injury suits, said the firm sent letters urging more than 100 clients to contact Dayton and Coleman.
Vento said she has no idea whether her family would fare better in pending suits than if it got $1 million under the bill.
Days before her husband, a 12-term Democrat, died at age 60, the Ventos sued more than a dozen companies, alleging he was exposed to Mesothelioma as a young school teacher while working part-time factory jobs. Sieben, who represents the Vento family, said that settlements have been reached with about half of the 16 defendants but that the amounts are confidential.
Echoing her late husband's words, Vento said the litigation and any settlement bill should be less about money than about "changing behavior" for corporations that put workers in danger.
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