Railroaders with Cancer: What You Need to Know About Filing an Asbestos Claim
It is devastating to find out you have cancer due to asbestos exposure, particularly because it could have been prevented if manufacturers of asbestos products hadn’t been so negligent. As a result of their carelessness, courts have forced manufacturers of asbestos-containing products to set aside over $30 billion dollars to compensate workers, with asbestos-related illnesses, […]
5 Signs Asbestos Exposure Could Be Affecting Your Body
Are you concerned you’ve been exposed to asbestos? If you have, you may be eligible for compensation for your medical expenses and suffering. The main cause of asbestos exposure is through work. Railroad workers, who worked prior to 1982, are particularly at risk because of its widespread use in railroad equipment, such as brake pads, […]
Asbestos on Cabooses
The railroad industry has a long history of using asbestos-containing materials, despite industry knowledge going back to the 1930s that asbestos was capable of causing disease and even death in their workers. Unfortunately, one of the symbolic images of the railroad industry, the Caboose, was also one of the places asbestos-containing material lurked. Documents obtained […]
Asbestos and Cancer – The “Separate Disease” Rule
Many of our clients who have been diagnosed with asbestosis, a noncancerous scarring of the lungs, ask, “If I get cancer can I pursue another claim?”. The short answer is “Yes, if the cancer is asbestos-related.” In 2003, the Supreme Court of the United States, in Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Ayers, held that […]
WATCH OUT FOR ASBESTOS-RELATED CANCERS
As early as the 1930s, many major industrial organizations were aware that exposure to asbestos could cause cancer. Despite this knowledge, these industries hid the truth and continued exposing their workers to these products for decades. However, by the latter part of the 20th Century, things began to change as the evils associated with asbestos […]
Asbestos – A Delayed Threat
Many people ask why asbestos claims are continuing to be filed by sick and injured workers when they were exposed to asbestos decades ago. The reason is that unlike exposure to certain toxic chemicals which can kill or injure immediately upon exposure, the effects of asbestos can take 30 or more years to appear. Often […]
Asbestos on Locomotives and Railcars
FORT WORTH, TEXAS – According to documents produced by BNSF Railway Company, many Asbestos-Containing Materials (ACM) were installed on locomotives and railcars. The materials identified include: fabric wrap on water and steam lines; fabric wrap on compressor and governor lines; gaskets; and brake and clutch linings. Likewise, Asbestos-Containing Materials were also present in various building […]
Other Cancers Related to Asbestos
STUDIES SHOW COLON CANCER AND THROAT CANCER ARE RELATED TO ASBESTOS Most people know lung cancer is related to asbestos. But did you know that colon cancer, stomach cancer, esophageal and laryngeal cancer have been linked to asbestos exposure in scientific studies? Most asbestos trusts compensate victims of colon cancer and throat cancer if it […]
RAILROADERS EXPOSED TO ASBESTOS DUST MAY BE ENTITLED TO COMPENSATION
Every railroader who worked between 1950 and 1980 has worked around a lot of dust. What is less known is that some of that dust contained asbestos dust fibers that can cause various forms of cancer and lung problems. Asbestos products were used throughout the railroad industry – asbestos pipe insulation, asbestos brake shoes and […]
US Steel Fined $170,000 For Asbestos
WASHINGTON D.C. – Federal regulators have levied fines totaling $170,000 against the U.S. Steel Corporation for exposing workers to asbestos at the company’s Coke Works facility in Clairton, Pa., according the following statement the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued Monday: “During the first week of February 2016, at the company’s coke production facility in Pittsburgh, five […]