$1.5M Awarded to Architect with Mesothelioma

May 2013, an excellent architect whose dad was an immigrant to the US coming from Mexico, was clinically diagnosed with asbestos mesothelioma. Immediately after a 4 week trial, a L.A Jury delivered a judgment on July 1 in favor of the architect, presenting him a verdict against Elementis Chemicals, Inc. and Union Carbide Corporation.

1.5$M Mesothelioma Settlements Amounts

Mr. Marteney’s asbestos illness stemmed coming from his direct exposure to workers that used asbestos-containing manufacturing products and automotive components. Union Carbide has been a provider of asbestos fiber in addition to Elementis appeared to be the supplier of Union Carbide’s asbestos all over the West Coast.

Mr. Marteney’s asbestos exposure to it goes way back to his childhood, as soon as his father took the man out of the school and made him operate in his dad’s car shop, in which he handled these kinds of toxic components without any know-how of their danger.

Without having an education and also no knowledge of the man his asbestos exposure, Mr. Marteney enrolled in the military, started a household, and later turned out to be an beginner architect.

At some point Mr. Marteney came back to school and then built a career as a well-liked architect, planning homes for the rich people in Beverly Hills. Unconsciously, all this hard work subjected him to products that contain asbestos products that would definitely later trigger the cancer which would destroy his well-deserved pension. Mr. Marteney is now undergoing therapy for his mesothelioma. He now lives in San Marino, together with his wife.

Construction Worker Settles Asbestos Lawsuit for $7.5M

Construction Worker Settles Asbestos Lawsuit for $7.5M

Los Angeles, CA: A construction worker who developed a highly aggressive cancer after hisexposure to asbestos, has resolved his asbestos lawsuit against the defendant companies for $7.5 million prior to trial. The plaintiff brought suit against several of the companies that manufactured the materials. The defendants severally denied liability.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the plaintiff was a construction worker helping install underground water and sewer lines beneath the Sacramento Valley city of Chico. His job involved working with pipes made from a concrete-asbestoscompound, which he would cut with a gasoline-powered saw. The cutting generated an enormous amount of cement-asbestos dust, which left the plaintiff covered head to toe by the end of the day. The plaintiff was later diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma, an aggressive form of cancer, also rare except where attributable to asbestos exposure.

The plaintiff filed suit in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, seeking damages on a defective product liability action. The plaintiff sought recovery of medical expenses, lost wages, and non-economic recovery. The defendants named were several companies whomanufactured, sold or delivered the asbestos-containing pipes the plaintiff worked with, including Parex USA, Westburne Supply, John K. Bice Co., Los Angeles Rubber, Hajoca Corp., Hanson Permanente Cement, Keenan, Properties, J-M Manufacturing, Certainteed Corp., Ferguson Enterprises, Grinnell Corp., Amcord, Ameron International and Calportland.

$8M Asbestos Mesothelioma Lawsuit Settlement Awarded to Handyman

Los Angeles, CA: A 68-year old man who worked as a painter and handyman from the early 1960s until his diagnosis of asbestos mesothelioma has been awarded $8,465,738 in settlement of his asbestos lawsuit.

In the lawsuit, the plaintiff alleged his exposure to asbestos resulted from working with asbestos-containing products manufactured and supplied by the defendants, Union Carbide and CalPortland. Specifically, the lawsuit claimed that the joint compound and the plastic cement the plaintiff worked with contained asbestos.

Recently diagnosed with pleural malignant asbestos mesothelioma, the plaintiff subsequently underwent an extrapleural pneumonectomy. He and his wife brought suit against the various defendants alleging that the defendants were negligent in failing to warn of the dangers ofasbestos contained in their products or sold to others to place in their products.

Defendants Were Responsible & Order to Pay $80 Million

At the conclusion of the 37-day trial the jury returned its verdict in favor of the plaintiffs and against the defendants. The jury determined that defendants CalPortland and Union Carbide were responsible.