Compensation For Asbestos Exposure In New Orleans
Only your doctor is qualified to determine the cause of your lung cancer.
However, asbestos has been known to cause lung cancer since at least the 1940s.
Today asbestos-related lung cancer is thought to be responsible for more than 6,000 deaths in the United States each year.
Your doctor will use several methods to determine whether your exposure to asbestos caused the cancer.
This includes looking for signs of asbestosis (a scarring of lung tissue caused by inhaled asbestos fibers), analyzing the number of asbestos fibers found in lung tissue, linking the exposure rate to certain jobs or job sites, and determining the date of your initial exposure to asbestos.
Under an international criteria used by doctors, asbestos-related lung cancer has at least a 10-year latency period between the time of initial exposure and the diagnosis of lung cancer.
People who’ve been sickened by asbestos in New Orleans have a right to collect compensation for their injuries.
Asbestos manufacturers and the industries where the mineral was prevalent understood that their product causes disease in people but never told their employees or the general public.
Workers went unprotected, when simple ventilator masks would have limited their exposure. Family members had no idea that when a loved one came home from a contaminated job site, they carried countless carcinogenic fibers on their hair, skin, and clothes.
Filing A Claim With A Louisiana Asbestos Trust Fund
Because of this negligence, many companies have created asbestos trust funds to compensate retired workers and others who’ve been sickened by the mineral. The VA has also established additional funds for sick veterans who were exposed to asbestos while serving our country.
If you’ve been diagnosed with lung cancer and know you experienced asbestos exposure earlier in your life, get experienced legal help right away.
You and your family deserve the financial protection that a damage award or settlement can provide, and an experienced attorney can make sure that the legal process plays out in the background while you focus on fighting cancer.
In New Orleans, The Gertler Law Firm has one of the best track records in helping clients who’ve been sickened by asbestos. Call us today at (504) 527-8767 and talk to an experienced New Orleans asbestos injury attorney for free.
