Tools For VAs In KS
Servicemen & Servicewomen of the United States armed forces are entitled to a number of facilities specifically created in recognition of their personal needs. Look here for a contemporary list of the facilities in Kansas.
Weitz & Luxenberg is known for spearheading asbestos cases, having won a historic consolidated trial in 1991 concerning employees of the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the 1940s and 1950s.
The law firm of Weitz and Luxenberg managed 36 clients in that case and collected $75 million. Another case yielded a $64.65 million award for four asbestos plaintiffs in 1996 (NY, docket # 10893/95), and, in 2002, the firm won a $53 million verdict in New York for a brake mechanic suffering with mesothelioma (docket No. 12658-00). The trial team has recovered hundreds of millions more for its clients, many of whom formed the core of the triumphant Allied war effort in WWII.
Composed of oxygen, hydrogen, silicon, and assorted metals, asbestos is classified as a mineral. Asbestos fibers are tough, flexible and flame retardant. Asbestos also insulates very well and will not break down easily. Other asbestos uses include older plastics, paper products and floor tiles. Sometimes, asbestos fibers are combined with a material that binds them together, producing asbestos containing material, otherwise known as ACM. A range of industrial products are created with ACM, for instance sealants, cement pipe and insulation.
Those Americans fulfilled their duty to the armed services and lived alongside asbestos for decades not realizing that this could one day bring about the terminal disease: mesothelioma.
If you or someone you love has developed mesothelioma after exposure to asbestos, we want to help. It's never too late for a free case evaluation. The form below starts the process.
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Find out more about services for VAs available at VBA-Central Area Office