ABESTOS MESOTHELIOMA LAWSUIT: NEW YORK MESOTHELIOMA ATTORNEY DISCUSSES ASBESTOS LEGAL ISSUES
This video from New York mesothelioma attorneys, Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, provides an overview of asbestos and its related dangers. It explains how asbestos can cause many diseases, and how asbestos exposure from multiple products can cause asbestos diseases including mesothelioma. The prognosis for most people is very poor.
New York mesothelioma attorneys at Levy Phillips & Konigsberg discuss the fact that most workers were not exposed to asbestos from a single product - they were exposed to many different products throughout their careers. For example, an auto mechanic was typically exposed to asbestos from brake linings, clutch facings, and automotive gaskets. Case in point, New York mesothelioma attorney, Robert Komitor, has represented many clients who, while performing home renovations, may have been exposed to asbestos from joint compounds and floor tiles. An equipment repairman may have been exposed to asbestos used in and on a variety of equipment such as pumps, boilers, compressors, valves and turbines. Common asbestos-containing materials are used in equipment such as gaskets and packing.
In mesothelioma lawsuits, medical experts have testified that all exposures to asbestos products contribute to a person's development of mesothelioma. The prognosis for people with exposure to asbestos worsens as exposure continues. In other words, a person's cumulative dose of asbestos from all products causes this asbestos-related disease. One of the grounds for holding companies legally responsible in mesothelioma lawsuits is the failure to warn consumers about the hazards of asbestos. Experts who have studied the history of knowledge about asbestos and cancer have testified that information about the dangers of asbestos was available to companies by 1930 or earlier. If companies would have warned about the hazards of asbestos, workers could have taken steps to protect themselves.
In this video clip, Robert Komitor, a New York Mesothelioma attorney, gives a "Legal Brief" on a recent a decision by a New York appellate court concluding that an equipment company had a duty to warn about the hazards of asbestos used on its equipment, even though it did not manufacture or install the asbestos-containing material. In this video, Mr. Komitor offers practical asbestos and mesothelioma legal advice for those living with a mesothelioma prognosis including those indirectly exposed to the product, and he explains how this development in the law in New York has simplified the process for asbestos victims to receive compensation from all parties responsible.
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