What Types of Claims Can Be Filed on Behalf of Mesothelioma Patients?
Samuel Meirowitz, a mesothelioma attorney and partner at Meirowitz & Wasserberg, discusses what types of claims can be filed on behalf of mesothelioma patients.
When you file a lawsuit against the company that made an asbestos obtaining product. You're filing a case against a company that is still in business. Now, oftentimes, there are companies that manufactured products years and years ago to which a person may be exposed to that have filed for bankruptcy protection. When they do that, oftentimes a trust gets set up. And they file for bankruptcy, not because they didn't have any money, those companies, but because the liabilities, to the people that they sadly made sick and poison exceeded their assets. So what the courts will do is they will force those companies to put money aside for claimants in the future. You are allowed to file claims with those trusts to recover compensation as well as file a lawsuit against the viable companies in court and we do both.