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Asbestos injury law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, recognized for achieving record-breaking compensation awards for workers diagnosed with occupational mesothelioma and lung cancer, is pleased to announce that the firm is expanding its practice to Pennsylvania. Our lawyers are now accepting asbestos-injury cases from residents of Pittston County, Pa., through the communication form on this page.

Weitz & Luxenberg’s 25-year track record for achieving outstanding verdicts and settlements for workers poisoned by asbestos includes a $16-million verdict last year, the first successful asbestos verdict against a dental supply company. In 2007, the firm obtained a $37-million verdict for the families of two smokers with lung cancer who died from asbestos exposure.

March 27, 2009 – According to a unique study of U.S. asbestos-related mortality conducted by the EWG Action Fund, a non-profit environmental research group headquartered in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania is the fourth highest ranking state in the country (after California, Florida and New York) for deaths attributed to mesothelioma and asbestosis.

This highly detailed examination of U.S. deaths attributed specifically to asbestos 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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Notably, Pennsylvania claims five counties on the EWG’s list of the Top 100 counties in the United States reporting death by mesothelioma or asbestosis. They are: Philadelphia County (ranked No. 3), Delaware County (No. 13); Allegheny County (No. 16); Montgomery County (No. 17) and Lancaster County (No. 84).

Pittston residents may be interested to know that their 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.

Up to 133 people died in Luzerne County of mesothelioma and asbestosis between 1979 and 2001. According to the report, that figure is “grossly underestimated” 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 study predicts that in the next decade some 35,000 people in the United States 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 family breadwinner) 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.