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Verdicts and settlements
A representative sample of recoveries. Amounts are gross recoveries before fees and costs, and identifying details have been removed.
Pleural mesothelioma — retired pipefitter
Verdict against two insulation manufacturers following a four-week trial. Exposure occurred at a Midwest power station between 1964 and 1979.
Peritoneal mesothelioma — drywall finisher
Confidential settlement with six defendants reached during jury selection. Joint compound exposure spanning a twenty-two-year career in residential construction.
Wrongful death — Navy machinist's mate
Verdict for the estate and surviving spouse of a veteran exposed aboard two destroyers and later at a civilian shipyard. VA benefits ran alongside the civil claim.
Asbestos lung cancer — refinery turnaround worker
Resolved with eleven defendants pre-trial. The client had a significant smoking history, which the defence relied on and the medical evidence overcame.
Secondary exposure — spouse of an insulator
Take-home exposure claim brought by a woman who laundered her husband's work clothes for nineteen years and never worked in industry herself.
Pleural mesothelioma — auto mechanic
Brake and clutch exposure across three decades of independent garage work. Verdict against two friction product manufacturers.
Wrongful death — steel mill millwright
Combination of settlements and bankruptcy trust distributions for a family in a state with a two-year wrongful death limitation period.
Asbestosis — boilermaker
Aggregate recovery from fourteen bankruptcy trusts, resolved without litigation over eleven months.
How these numbers are built
A single mesothelioma recovery is usually a stack rather than one payment. A typical resolution includes settlements with several solvent manufacturers, distributions from a dozen or more bankruptcy trusts, and where applicable VA benefits that are not part of the civil recovery at all.
Trust distributions matter more than their headline percentages suggest. They pay a scheduled value rather than a negotiated one, and they arrive in months. For clients in declining health that timing is frequently the most important feature of the whole case.
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