ASBESTOS INJURY (Mesothelioma)
More than any other type of Investigation, asbestos injury claims require an I don't know, but I'll find out approach.
ID and location of witnesses to asbestos exposures which frequently date back to the 1950s requires a flexible and creative approach. Techniques include:
Extensive review of historical telephone directories, newspaper advertising & articles, ship rosters, cruise books & corporate records and
Parameter based database research where the only information available is a first initial, a last name, an age range, and a nationwide search area.
Our investigations have identified Alternate Exposures from a variety of sources including:
Asbestos blankets used to protect welding leads from hot slag during the fabrication of Polaris submarines in the 1960's and early 1970's.
Asbestos dust released from lagging in overhead steam pipes during an earthquake.
A Zinc plating filtering system which utilized a hand mixed asbestos slurry and involved the handling of large quantities of pure asbestos.
Airborne asbestos generated during the renovation and refitting of ships in the Long Beach Naval Shipyard where thousands of tons of asbestos bulkhead insulation were removed dry.
Naturally Occurring Asbestos (NOA) from unpaved roadways, open pit asbestos mines, and in the soil adjacent to a plaintiff's residence.
Airborne asbestos generated by the continuous discharge of 5" guns aboard a US Destroyer providing naval gunfire support to ground troops during the Tet Offensive.
Airborne asbestos generated during depth charge testing of warship structural integrity where the ship being tested runs over depth charges rolled off of the back of a minesweeper which are then detonated 250 feet below the test ship.
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Our asbestos injury inquiries have taken us to places as remote as Alta Gracia Cordoba Argentina and places like Egypt, where language and customs make it difficult to operate.
In Egypt, the former Mubarak government and its associates were the principals who ran and profited from the companies that fabricated and distributed millions of linear feet of asbestos cement water pipe and electrical risers as well as asbestos roofing and other asbestos containing products.
In Argentina, it takes several hikes up and down 9 flights of stairs and a court order just to obtain a copy of a deceased person's military record – a public record in the USA.
For specific investigative inquiries, please feel free to contact us directly.