Bringing a Mesothelioma Case Decades After Exposure to Asbestos Attorney Joe Williams

You were recently diagnosed with mesothelioma
and you were wondering how you can bring a case now when you were exposed to asbestos
many years ago. Hi. I'm Joe Williams. I'm a mesothelioma trial attorney in New York
City and I'd like to give you some information about something called the statute of limitations,
as it relates to mesothelioma cases.

And I'll tell you at the outset that each state has
their own rules about statute of limitations. And I can tell you that in New York the time
limit of when you can bring a lawsuit starts to run from the day that you're diagnosed.
So that means that at the time when you knew or should have known that you had an asbestos
related disease -- often it's the biopsy which definitively diagnoses mesothelioma -- that
the time to bring a lawsuit starts to run at that point. So what happens in every mesothelioma
case is we have someone who has been diagnosed, sometimes the patient (the client) is 70,
80 or 90 years old and they were exposed to asbestos perhaps back in World War II or 20,
30, 40 years ago. And there's a very long latency period from the time of exposure to
the time of diagnosis with mesothelioma and that's widely accepted in the medical and
scientific community.

So we're always journeying back -- many times decades in time -- to the
time when those asbestos exposures took place in order to prove up those exposures and show
the evidence of exposure to asbestos. But you still can bring a legal case and certainly
in New York that time starts to run from the time of diagnosis. Now these rules change
from time to time and I don't know at what point in time you're watching this video.
So this information is current as the time of this video. But to get specific answers
about the statute of limitations and how it can relate to your case, there's only way
to do that and that's to call me.

The number below is my office. My name is Joe Williams
and I invite you to give me a call and we can talk about all these nuisances and facts
as they relate to your case. We're here to help you and to give you information about
your case. Thank you so much for listening..