| lifornia mesothelioma lawyers can initially consider a | | | | diagnosis, although the measurement oflife expectancy |
| potentialmesothelioma lawsuit on the basis of the | | | | in the individual case may differ, and our |
| diagnosis alone, just becausemesothelioma is a rare | | | | mesotheliomalawyers commonly rely on the |
| disease occurring almost never in the absence | | | | prognoses of the client’s treatingphysicians. The |
| ofasbestos exposure. Our mesothelioma attorneys | | | | damages include general damages, the |
| can be almost certainthat in any particular individual | | | | client’s loss oflife expectancy, the loss of all that |
| case we will be able to identify thesource of the | | | | the client would have enjoyed hadhis life not been cut |
| asbestos exposure, which will often have taken place | | | | short, his emotional distress, pain andsuffering. Our |
| 20to 50 years prior to the date of diagnosis. | | | | mesothelioma lawyers also work up the client’s |
| Mesothelioma can resultfrom direct exposure to | | | | specialeconomic damages, including medical and |
| asbestos or indirect exposure. Direct exposureis most | | | | hospital and related medicalexpense, past and future |
| commonly the result of working in professions in which | | | | for the duration of the client’s lifeexpectancy; as |
| asbestoswas used, trades such as were employed in | | | | well the loss of earnings the client would have |
| shipyards, and generally,pipe fitters, insulators, | | | | receivedover the course of his natural work life |
| plasterers, electricians, bricklayers,carpenters, steel | | | | expectancy if he had not beenstricken with the |
| workers, mine workers, auto mechanics, the | | | | disease. For a more complete discussion of |
| U.S.military, or at factories or in other industries, | | | | themeasure of damages, and our California |
| professions andtrades in which asbestos was used. | | | | mesothelioma lawyers methods ofpreparing the |
| Direct exposure sometimes also hasoccurred as the | | | | damage evidence, including the array of experts |
| result of asbestos in heating systems in work places,in | | | | requiredto properly prepare the damage evidence, you |
| homes, apartment buildings, and even in schools. | | | | may consider our Catastrophic Injury Attorneysweb |
| Indirect exposureto asbestos has commonly been | | | | page. Our California mesothelioma lawyers also |
| found to occur, for example, in familymembers of | | | | represent thefamilies of those who have passed |
| those who worked in these industries, who came into | | | | away as the result of asbestosrelated mesothelioma. |
| contactwith asbestos fibers from clothing worn by the | | | | Again the diagnosis almost always assures thatour |
| worker. | | | | mesothelioma attorneys will be able to identify the |
| Confirming the diagnosis, and then identifying the | | | | means ofasbestos exposure, and then the damages in |
| source of theasbestos exposure are the first steps | | | | a mesothelioma wrongfuldeath case include the family |
| our mesothelioma lawyersundertake, followed by an | | | | members’ losses of love and affection |
| exhaustive preparation of the damageevidence. | | | | andsociety and protection and emotional support, as |
| recognizing that mesothelioma is a fatal disease, | | | | well as economicsupport that they would have |
| thestatistical mean average being that the patient is | | | | received from their loved one had he orshe not |
| likely to pass awaywithin 2 years of the date of | | | | succumbed to this asbestos related disease. |