Mesothelioma Legal Rights – Compensation Entitlements

The asbestos industry has known for centuries that’s asbestos caused such deadly health problems as mesothelioma. In the 1930’s, regardless of the warnings, the asbestos companies sold asbestos as insulation, profiting billions of dollars from this cheap and plentiful resource that proves to be quite expensive for mesothelioma victims. The asbestos was used in a variety of products and people became exposed to asbestos on a regular basis that could, in later life, cause mesothelioma.

Asbestos workers though were dying from exposure to asbestos and medical researchers had become well aware of the health hazards and by the late 1930’s it was well documented that asbestos was a highly toxic carcinogen that could cause cancer in humans such as mesothelioma. The asbestos companies tried covered up any information they could about the health hazards of asbestos but eventually, after years of asbestos sales, the government became aware of the threat and prohibited its use in the US.

These actions to continue selling asbestos form the basic structure of compensation entitlements.