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Free legal consultation for Hazelton residents with occupational asbestos disease

Hazelton residents with occupational lung cancer or mesothelioma are urged to contact our lawyers for a free legal consultation to determine their eligibility to receive financial compensation for injuries related to asbestos.

After two decades of achieving record-breaking verdict and settlement awards for workers diagnosed with asbestos-related mesothelioma and lung cancer, New York-based Weitz & Luxenberg is pleased to announce that it is expanding its practice to Pennsylvania.

March 26, 2009 – Pennsylvania is ranked the fourth state in the nation – after California, Florida and New York – for deaths attributed specifically to mesothelioma and asbestosis, according to a unique study of U.S. asbestos-related mortalities by the EWG Action Fund, a non-profit environmental research group headquartered in Washington, D.C.

This unique report on U.S. deaths from asbestos exposure presents mortality statistics on three levels – state, county and city – as reported to the federal government via death certificate records from 1979 through 2001.

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Pennsylvania has five counties on the EWG’s list of the Top 100 counties in the U.S. for deaths due to mesothelioma or asbestosis. The five counties are: Philadelphia County (ranked No. 3), Delaware County (No. 13); Allegheny County (No. 16); Montgomery County (No. 17) and Lancaster County (No. 84).

Hazelton’s own Luzerne County is the seventh highest-ranking county (out of 66 state counties) in Pennsylvania for fatalities attributed to mesothelioma, the deadliest form of asbestos-related cancer and most often the result of workplace exposure.

Some 133 people died in Luzerne County of mesothelioma and asbestosis between 1979 and 2001, according to the study. But that figure is a low estimate because the federal government did not start tracking mesothelioma as a cause of death until 1999.

Mesothelioma has a long latency period, and is usually diagnosed decades after the initial exposure incident. That’s why many cases are only now coming to light, despite the current downturn in asbestos use.

Time to seek justice!

The report projects that in the next decade 35,000 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with mesothelioma. Mesothelioma, fatal in every case within two years after diagnosis, is most often the result of industrial workplace exposure to asbestos, and usually contracted through employers’ emphasis on profits rather than the health and safety of its workers.

That’s why workers diagnosed with mesothelioma (usually the breadwinner in every family) and their surviving family members have strong cases in court for obtaining monetary damages to pay for medical bills and lost wages.

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If you have been diagnosed with mesothelioma or asbestos-related lung cancer, please complete the form on this page for a free evaluation of your legal right to financial compensation. There is absolutely no cost to you until we achieve a verdict or settlement in your favor.