FAQ's About Mesothelioma and Answers From a Mesothelioma Attorney

Question: Are certain individuals more likely to develop illness from exposure to asbestos?

Answer: Yes. There is an increased risk of developing asbestos-related illness if a person worked in an industry requiring constant, prolonged exposure. These individuals include many factory and construction workers, as well as ship builders, miners, automotive brake mechanics, and anyone else who worked with insulation materials.

There is no level of harmless exposure to asbestos. Even small doses can cause illness that becomes manifest many years later. Yet, some who worked around asbestos never develop illness. While some scientists believe that certain individuals are genetically more able to withstand exposure, no one has been able to identify an asbestos-resistant gene.

Question: Asbestos has not been widely used since the 1970's. How can there be any current risk of asbestos exposure?

Answer: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that over 700,000 public buildings in this country still contain asbestos. This number includes approximately one in ten existing school buildings. Thus, the threat posed by asbestos exposure continues to haunt innocent citizens.

Question: My exposure to asbestos happened years ago. Have I run out of time to make a claim?

Answer: This is an important question. In asbestos cases, the Statute of Limitations, or time limit for making a legal claim, depends on the state in which you live. Your time to make a claim certainly starts to run, once a doctor diagnoses you with an illness. For that reason, talk with a Michigan asbestos lawyer about your rights immediately.

Question: I do not have mesothelioma, but I have been diagnosed with another form of cancer, and I was exposed to asbestos. Could the cancer be related to asbestos exposure?

Answer: Just as asbestos exposure increases the risk of lung cancer, there are also studies that link asbestos exposure to increased risk of other cancers, including cancer of the colon, kidney, larynx, pancreas, and esophagus. If you believe asbestos played a role in your illness, you should consult a doctor and contact a Michigan asbestos lawyer today.

Question: I know that the company where I used to work has declared bankruptcy, supposedly due to asbestos litigation. Should I even bother to pursue a claim?

Answer: Many law firms are fighting to challenge bankruptcies that corporations try to use as a shield against financial exposure to asbestos claims. You should talk to a Michigan asbestos lawyer by submitting a free, confidential consultation form today to determine the status of claims against the particular company that you believe is responsible for your illness.

Question: What is the difference between pleural mesothelioma and peritoneal mesothelioma?

Answer: Pleural mesothelioma occurs in the chest cavity and involves the lungs. It is the more common form of mesothelioma cancer. Its symptoms include chest pain, shortness of breath, coughing, and perhaps rapid weight loss or persistent fever. Because these early problems may indicate other illnesses, a doctor may have difficulty making the initial diagnosis. If you are experiencing these symptoms and believe you may have been exposed to asbestos, you should notify your health care provider immediately.

Peritoneal mesothelioma develops in the abdominal cavity. This form of mesothelioma progresses more rapidly and is more deadly. However, early diagnosis and an individual's response to treatment are important factors in combating the disease. The symptoms of peritoneal mesothelioma include nausea, vomiting, and swelling of the lower extremities. Individual symptoms vary and may not all be present. If you are experiencing these problems and were exposed to asbestos in the past, you should see your family physician.

Question: Does mesothelioma always mean cancer?

Answer: In very rare circumstances, it is possible to have a benign (non-cancerous) form of mesothelioma, which is known as cystic mesothelioma of the peritoneum. But in most instances, mesothelioma is a malignant disease.

Question: Just because I worked with asbestos, does that really mean that I am at higher risk of mesothelioma and other illnesses?

Answer: Unfortunately, a report in the New England Journal of Medicine indicated that asbestos workers were 344 times more likely to die from mesothelioma than the average population. Other studies also show a clear connection between asbestos exposure and serious illness.

If you or a loved one suffer from asbestos related cancer or mesothelioma cancer, talk with an experienced Michigan asbestos lawyer today.

Attorney Marya Sieminski joined the Law Offices of Sam Bernstein in 2003. She is admitted to practice law in Michigan state courts and in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated magna cum laude from Wayne State University Law School. Marya has worked as a trial lawyer for 10 years and exclusively represented victims in personal injury litigation and in workers compensation claims. She also was appointed by the Governor to serve on the State of Michigan Workers Compensation Qualifications Advisory Committee.

The Law Offices of Samuel I. Bernstein, our Michigan personal injury law firm, has championed the cause of the seriously injured for three generations.

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Asbestos Litigation - Some Basic Facts About The Process

When Should I Argue an Asbestos Attorney?

If asbestos diseases accept abnormally afflicted you or a ancestors affiliate again you should argue an asbestos advocate apropos litigation. Asbestos is a accustomed basic mineral that, in the additional bisected of the twentieth century, was broadly acclimated as a architecture material. It was bargain and able with abounding resources. Despite the analysis that the assimilation of asbestos fibers leads to austere illnesses, companies covered up this advice in adjustment to abide its use. Asbestos laws accept alone afresh been alien to advice ascendancy the use of this baleful substance.

Who is Afflicted by Asbestos Diseases?

It was estimated that about 10 actor workers had been apparent to asbestos by the year 1978 and that by 1970 25 actor bags of asbestos had been acclimated in architecture assignment beyond the USA. Acknowledgment to asbestos usually occurs back abstracts that accommodate asbestos are cut, sawn or broken; this after-effects in the fibres actuality appear into the atmosphere. Anyone complex in these processes was anon at risk.

Asbestos fibres are so baby they can alone be apparent beneath a microscope. They are colorless, odorless and tasteless. It is added than accessible that anyone who has appear into acquaintance with the baleful asbestos fibers wouldn't alike know.

Early Danger Signs.

In the 1920s the asbestos industry was acquainted of the damaging furnishings of asbestos, and yet they did annihilation to assure workers or their families. By this time, allowance companies had alike started to abode college premiums on workers in the asbestos industry but companies absitively to put accumulation aloft the bloom of their workers.

As time confused on, added and added bodies aural the asbestos industry abstruse of the dangers complex but it was some time afore annihilation was done about it. It is alone adequately afresh that able bloom and assurance measures accept been implemented to stop acknowledgment to asbestos. Any asbestos advocate or asbestos law close can acquaint you whether you were disproportionately put at accident and whether you accept the appropriate to advance with an asbestos lawsuit.

Diseases Associated with Asbestos.

Many baleful and non-fatal diseases are associated with the acknowledgment to asbestos. Many prove baleful to the sufferer. Mesothelioma is a anatomy of blight that is primarily acquired by acknowledgment to asbestos fibers. Lung blight can additionally be contracted, as able-bodied as asbestosis. Back the lungs drag asbestos, some of the fibers become caught. In about-face these fibers account blister tissue and abatement the lungs' adequacy to breathe acceptable oxygen.

If you ache from any of these illnesses, and you haven't already done so, acquaintance an asbestos advocate immediately; you may be advantaged to accompany asbestos litigation.

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