Tools For Veterans In SC
Members of the American armed forces are entitled to a number of services specifically created in recognition of their personal needs. Search for an up to date list of the facilities in South Carolina.
Weitz & Luxenberg is known for spearheading asbestos cases, having won a landmark consolidated trial in 1991 involving Brooklyn Navy Yard workers in the 1940s and 1950s.
Our firm had 36 clients in that case and secured $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 decision in New York for a brake mechanic suffering from mesothelioma (docket No. 12658-00). The Asbestos team has recovered hundreds of millions more for its clients, many of whom formed the heart of the triumphant Allied war effort in the second World War.
Asbestos is a mineral. It is composed of silicon, oxygen, hydrogen and other metals. Its fibers are strong, flexible and not flammable. Asbestos also insulates very well and doesn't break down easily. Other asbestos uses include older plastics, paper products and floor tiles. Commonly, asbestos fibers are combined with a matter that binds them together, leading to the creation of asbestos containing material, otherwise known as ACM. Lots of industrial products are composed of ACM, including sealants, cement pipe and insulation.
Countless Americans fulfilled their duty to the armed forces and lived alongside asbestos for a long time not realizing that this could one day lead to the terminal disease: mesothelioma.
Contact with asbestos can seriously damage your health. Weitz & Luxenberg understands this and wants to help. For a free consultation, fill out the form below.
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