New York Personal Injury Laws

Recovering Medical Bills

Can a victim of Mesothelioma recover the medical bills that they incurred through their legal case? Hi, I’m Joe Williams. I Mesothelioma trial attorney in New York City, and I can tell you that the answer to this question is definitely, yes. In every case I’ve ever handled, in all the years I’ve been representing Mesothelioma victims, every victim and their family stresses to me the stress that they have over the large amount of medical bills that they are incurring.

 Making A Claim for Medical Bills

I can tell you, just like I tell every one of them, that in every Mesothelioma case we assert a claim in the case for the repayment of the medical bills. What that means is that we bring a lawsuit against the companies who exposed our clients to asbestos. As part of that lawsuit, one of the claims that we make is that our client has incurred significant medical bills, and that those companies should have to pay those bills, because they caused them to contract this unfortunate cancer.

Breaking Down The Medical Expenses

These bills can be extensive. A Mesothelioma victim’s treatment can include surgery or multiple surgeries. It can include chemotherapy, multiple rounds of chemotherapy. It can also include radiation, as well as well as numerous office visits.

All these things are obviously very expensive, and the bills can really add up, adding stress to an already stressful situation. I can tell you that as part of the legal case, we seek to recover payment of these bills from the companies we bring the case against.

 Further Questions and Concerns, Contact Us

Now, I’m sure you have many other questions about how medical bills are taken care of as part of a legal case. I can answer those questions. I’m Joe Williams, and in our firm we handle these cases every day. We represent Mesothelioma victims every day.

I encourage you to call the number on your screen below, that’s my office number, and we’ll answer your questions. Thanks so much for watching.

Drywall Installers Exposed to Asbestos

You work as a drywall installer, and you’ve now been diagnosed with mesothelioma. You’re trying to determine all the ways you could have been exposed to asbestos. Hi, I’m Joe Williams. I’m a mesothelioma trial attorney, and I’d like to talk to you about the ways that drywall installers were exposed to asbestos on construction jobs.

Ways Drywall Installers Were Exposed

Now, we know that prior to 1977, joint compound contained asbestos. It was banned by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1977. Drywall installers who put up those boards of sheetrock – usually four foot by eight foot boards – onto studs, we know that those seams between the sheetrock had to be taped and filled with joint compound. The joint compound came in either a pre-mixed form in a bucket – it was already wet – or it came in large bags, it was dry, and had to be mixed with water, and when it was mixed, lots of dust in the air. Either way once the joint compound was wet, it was applied to the seams, smoothed out, and allowed to dry. Once dry, sanded down, creating lots and lots of dust in the workspace. Tradesmen did this process two or three times to sanding, two or three times to make a smooth finished professional wall. Each of those sanding applications created dust that the installers who worked with breathed. These exposures to this asbestos dust on a daily basis over the course of an entire career caused mesothelioma.

 Diagnosed With Mesothelioma

We see in these cases in asbestos litigation the exposures many years ago decades later resulting in a tradesman such as a drywall installer being diagnosed by his doctors with mesothelioma. The doctors, when they review this, they connect the asbestos exposure to the current diagnosis of mesothelioma years later. Mesothelioma is a cancer caused by asbestos.

Why am I telling you all of this? Because you have questions about mesothelioma and asbestos exposure. I’m Joe Williams. At our office we represent victims of mesothelioma and their families, and we deal with these issues every day. Give us a call at our office and we will answer your questions. Thank you. [music]