Mesothelioma and Asbestos

Donald G. Jones died of lung cancer on January 21, 2008. His wife as well as three daughters possess filed a lawsuit against 23 companies, alleging that his lung cancer was caused by asbestos exposure in the workplace. They filed suit for the companies’ failure to provide Jones with information about the proper protective clothing to wear near asbestos-containing products, their failure to warn him about the dangers of asbestos, as well as their failure to provide adequate warnings concerning the dangers of asbestos-containing products.

Among the 23 companies named as defendants are B.F. Goodrich, Chevron USA, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Michelin North America, Texaco as well as others. Many of the biggest, wealthiest companies in the world share responsibility for the asbestos tragedy that has fallen on American workers.

According to the family’s petition, Jones incurred health examination costs, suffered from large material pain as well as mental anguish, as well as suffered both material impairment as well as disfigurement before his death. His wife as well as daughters possess suffered loss of his support, maintenance, care, advice, services, counsel, consortium, companionship as well as society due to his illness as well as death. The defendants can as well as be heald accountable for the wages Jones would possess earned as well as added to his estate incase he had not died prematurely because of their wrongdoing. The women possess as well as suffered mental anguish as well as incurred both funeral as well as burial expenses.

A lawsuit cannot make fair what has happened to a family when a loved one dies of a preventable disease similar mesothelioma. But it cannot help the family heal by allowing them to speak out about what happened to them as well as hopefully hold the wrongdoers accountable. It may be capable provide some financial security for the family after going through so much. They are seeking unspecified common, punitive, distinguished as well as exemplary damages as well as costs, interests as well as for other relief as deemed appropriate by the court.

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