Were You a Naval Seaman Exposed to Asbestos Now Have MesotheliomaAttorney Joe Williams

You were naval seamen. You served in the United
States Navy and now you've been diagnosed with mesothelioma. And you and your family
are trying to figure out how you were exposed to asbestos. Hi.

I'm Joe Williams. I'm a mesothelioma
trial attorney here in New York City and I. Can answer the questions that you have about
how naval seamen were exposed to asbestos. The first thing that we need to know about
someone who served in the United States Navy is what was their rating? What was their job
aboard ship? Did their job cause them to come into the fire room, where the boilers were?
Or the engine room, where the turbines and other equipment were? That's where the majority
of asbestos containing components where.

Throughout the ship, the piping -- almost all of it -- was
covered with asbestos pipe covering. And in the engine room and the fire room, the equipment
was insulated with asbestos. The equipment had internal asbestos gaskets and asbestos
packing. The broiler had asbestos firebrick and asbestos cement that was all used in conjunction
with that equipment.

And as we learn more about an individual client's case, we can
then draw on our experience with working with other naval seamen to learn more about their
individual exposures and what exposure that particular client would have had to asbestos.
Another important factor in a case for naval seamen is that fact that they worked on a
military ship. And the military kept very strong records regarding their ships and those
records are saved in the United States Naval Archive. And in cases involving naval seamen,
we hire a researcher to go down to Washington, D.C. And to acquire the records for that particular
ship.

And those records at the U.S. Naval Archive tell us all the equipment and all
the work that was done on that ship. And from those records we can help reconstruct all
the different ways the naval seamen could have been exposed to asbestos on a particular
navy ship. Additionally, there is something called "musteralls." And musteralls, as they
relate to a naval seaman's case, tells us a lot of information because they list all
the seamen that were on that ship.

We can then through our investigation find these
individuals (if they're still alive and still available) and interview them. And talk to
them about potential exposures they had in different compartments of the ship and develop
that evidence and potentially use it in our client's case to help our client and prove
their exposures to asbestos. In a case for navy seamen, there are many ways to establish
the evidence of exposure to asbestos. It all depends upon the individual facts of your
case.

I'm Joe Williams. I invite you to call my office so we can answer your questions.
We represent mesothelioma victims every day and we're here to answer questions for you.
Thank you..