What can you expect in a Mesothelioma case?

A Mesothelioma case generally takes somewhere between a year and two years to resolve either by settlement or by trial verdict. When you start a Mesothelioma case what generally happens is you have to answer questions that are selected by the court. After you answer those questions, deposition is usually taken. That’s a situation where you are sitting in a room and you are asked questions about how you were exposed, what’s your medical history, what’s your family background. And your lawyer sits there right with you and prepares you and makes sure that you are treated fairly. And we do the same thing to the defendants. We put them under oath in that deposition asking them questions about why they did what they did, why they didn’t warn, what did they know. After the deposition phase is over we hire experts--- experts to talk about your conditions, your diagnoses, what your losses were, what the defendants knew or didn’t know. And when all that is over we get ready for trial. Often times in Mesothelioma cases, there are a number of defendants in the case because people are exposed to more than one asbestos product. Some defendants settle early; they acknowledge their responsibilities. And some defendants settle later on. But we get ready for trial and we try the case if we have to. And when we are prepare to try the case, most of the times the case settles. If they don’t, we have to be prepared to go the distance, go the extra mile to get the justice that you deserve ---and that’s when justice is achieved.