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Mesothelioma Lawyers and the Asbestos Time Bomb.

Don't let others suffer like me

Why we need Mesothelioma Lawyers.
The one-time friend turned killer that was once such an indispensible, yet unnoticed, part of our daily lives for so many centuries, is now a feared enemy. It is Asbestos (from the Greek for 'inextinguishable') and is the reason behind thousands of global compensation claims, through mesothelioma lawyers, against employers, manufacturers and processors of asbestos-related products.
Anyone suspecting they may be suffering as a result of exposure to asbestos, would be well advised to seek the services of specialist mesothelioma lawyers, whose experience with industrial diseases can be of great help in reducing the anxiety and uncertainty people may face taking confirmed cases through the sometimes long process of legal compensation.

Many asbestos workers, and those unwitingly exposed to asbestos, have been given a mesothelioma diagnosis for which there is no cure, maybe just a little temporary relief, until the inevitable distressing death a few months or a year or two after the first symptoms of are noticed. This is why it is important for suspected sufferers to contact mesothelioma lawyers as soon they realise there may have been exposure to asbestos fibres or dust, over no matter how short a period.


Mesothelioma is a time bomb because less than a day's exposure to asbestos dust can be enough to produce mesothelioma, some 30-40 years later, when mesothelioma symptoms are first noticed. Though most mesothelioma victims are men, because mainly they worked in those industries, sometimes their wives and family too are innocent sufferers from this disease, inhaling the asbestos dust shaken from their husband's/fathers' clothing, or hair, at the end of the working day.

Whether the fault lies with manufacturers & employers (assuming they knew of the dangers) or the employees (did everyone diligently use respirator equipment and protective clothing, if it was supplied?), is something for the mesothelioma lawyers, insurance companies and courts to thrash out.

Meanwhile, asbestosis & mesothelioma victims are dying a painful and inexorable death, before their cases can even come to court or a settlement is reached. As there is no cure for mesothelioma or asbestosis, all that can be done is to make the sufferer's plight as comfortable as possible, before death finally brings merciful relief.

Although various governments have introduced, albeit belatedly, anti-asbestos legislation, mesothelioma lawyers sometimes find that in some cases the time limit for claiming compensation is unrealistically short, given the long time (30-40 years) before mesothelioma symptoms are first noticed. Many victims are dying before they get a court verdict, or even before they get to court. Unlike its Greek derivation, Mesothelioma and asbestosis victims are not inextinguishable.




The History of Asbestos.
It is probably not generally known that asbestos has been around since 4000 BC, when it was used in lamp wicks and candles. Interestingly, it was also used in the cloth wrapping of Egyptian mummies. Maybe this is the real origin of 'The Curse of The Mummy' stories; grave robbers, and maybe Egyptologists, could expect to get their just desserts! Clothing made from asbestos was highly prized in ancient times to wrap the bodies of Kings, so that their ashes would not mix with the earth or other contaminants during cremation, and it is said the Romans simply threw their asbestos napkins into a fire to cleanse and purify them.

The fact that asbestos workers developed respiratory illnesses, and died young, was known as far back as Roman times when Pliny the Elder commented that asbestos workers seemed to have many health problems, advising against buying asbestos-workings slaves as they "died young". Obviously, there were no mesothelioma lawyers around then! The deleterious effects of asbestos, in modern industrial times, have been recorded as far back as the start of the 18th Century but little notice was paid by factory owners & Governments to the plight of asbestos workers - labour was cheap and life even cheaper; nothing should stand in the way of the sacred cows of Industrial Progress and the profits of industrialists and politicians.

That it took until the 1970s before more stricter legislation to restrict its use and safeguarded workers was drawn up, is scandalous. A charitable reason for this inertia might be that asbestos had become so widely used in almost every aspect of our everyday lives, delivering such tremendous benefits, that there was great reluctance to finally admit that something so useful, could also be so deadly. People who have expounded the virtues of, and made a lot of money out of, asbestos are hardly likely to suddenly throw up their hands and admit to being wrong. The alternative, less charitable, explanation can only be that greed and profit were more important than employees' health.
Deja vu?



'LEAN ON ME.'

READ THE MOVING ACCOUNT OF ONE WOMAN'S LOVE AND DETERMINATION TO MAKE HER DYING HUSBAND'S FINAL MONTHS AS PAIN FREE AS POSSIBLE.

Lorraine Kember's moving account of her husband's slow death from Mesothelioma and her fight to bring this terrible disease to the public's attention.


'Lean on Me' by Lorraine Kember

MESOTHELIOMA-DATA.COM

Mesothelioma Data, Statistics, & Information - Mesothelioma is fairly rare. There are an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 new cases of mesothelioma each year in the United States. The incidence of mesotheliomas in the United States increased from 1970 to 1990 and then stabilized. It may now be decreasing. Most of the past increase in cases, as well as the recent decrease in cases, has been in men. The rate, although lower, has been fairly steady for women. In European countries and world wide, the rate of mesotheliomas is still increasing.

For more iformation visit Mesothelioma-data.com

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ABOUT THIS SITE
With the aim of putting sufferers in touch with mesothelioma lawyers, who can help them get the compensation they deserve, I am highlighting the plight of people who used to either work in the asbestos industry or have come into contact with asbestos during their life. Mesothelioma,and the effects of asbestos, have been known about for hundreds of years but it is only in relatively recent times that the plight of sufferers has been given the urgency they rightly deserve

I will also feature any topics relating to people being screwed by the establishment & big business. My basic philosophy is on the side of compassionate capitalism; one can be in business without trampling over other people.
If you have any comments or suggestions, please contact me, Mike Jozefiak, via Email.

Mike Jozefiak
203 Hungate Street
Aylsham
Norfolk
UK
tel: 01263-734990.
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