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When trying to determine which Chicago Mesothelioma Attorney to choose for your case, there are many questions you have to take into account.
The initial mesothelioma attorney–client consultation should be informative. As a client, you have a right to ask frank questions such as:
- How many asbestos and mesothelioma verdicts has the firm itself won?
- How often do the firm’s attorneys take asbestos lawsuits to trial?
- How willing is the firm to fight for me and my mesothelioma or asbestos case?
- How many resources does the firm have onsite (physically and in computerized databases) to help me prove my mesothelioma or asbestos case with its unique particulars (work-site exposures, asbestos product identification, scientific and medical depositions, etc.)?
- How long will it take to prepare and file my mesothelioma or asbestos case?
- Will settlement be expected of some mesothelioma and asbestos claims? How soon will these occur?
- How long will it take for my mesothelioma or asbestos case to be brought to trial?
- What other support services can the firm provide, such as estate planning, will or living trust preparation and probate?
Most of the largest manufacturers and distributors of asbestos products knew of the health risks caused by asbestos as early as the 1920s. Instead of working to solve these problems, educating the public about the dangers of asbestos, and finding other reasonable substitutes, asbestos industry enterprises actually concealed evidence that asbestos products were harmful. Because of corporate concealment, many people remain unaware of the health hazards that asbestos–related products still pose.
While the original mesothelioma and asbestos cases brought to trial in the 1970s involved insulation workers and miners, for several decades to the present the cases involve all types of workers and their family members. Currently asbestos continues to affect the health of shipyard workers, refinery and industrial workers, drywall workers, mechanics, construction workers, automotive mechanics, teachers who work in asbestos-contaminated schools, family members of asbestos workers and other diverse groups, and trials include all of those groups and many more.
An experienced Mesothelioma Attorney is able to examine a client’s work and life history, and that of their family members, and determine the best course of action.
The asbestos lawyer can use company documents and evidence amassed over decades of cases to best prove a person’s mesothelioma or other asbestos-related disease case. Given the asbestos industry’s history of concealment and fraud, you should not be reluctant to step forward to assert your legal rights if you have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestos lung cancer, asbestosis or other asbestos-related disease.
Call Chicago Mesothelioma Attorney Phil Berenz today at 312-888-6058 and find out how we can help you!
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