Some startling Mesothelioma Lawsuits and compensations:
- $2.3 million as compensation and punitive damages worth $1.5 million, was won by a boilermaker having Mesothilioma in 1982. [src]
- A 45-year-old lady in Hampshire having Mesothilioma received over £140,000 as compensation after having been exposed to asbestos from her grandfather’s work clothes. [src]
- Companies have been charged by governments for polluting entire towns due to their asbestos related practices and asked to compensate for the cleanup and rehabilitation expenses.
- A group of five workmen in Alabama filed a Lawsuit against a company in 2001 for supplying defective products, which contained asbestos. This led them to be exposed to dangerous levels of asbestos resulting in Mesothilioma. Two of the men died before the final verdict yet their widows received compensation worth $2 million. The employees who survived received $4 million for the past and $2 million for future damages which might occur. In totality the company in question paid $130 million as compensation money.
- A San Francisco jury in the year 2005 awarded $9 million in damages as compensation to a Mesothilioma inflicted man who had got the disease due to asbestos exposure on work. [src]
- A compensation of $10 million was given to a 82-year old man by the jury in Los Angeles. The man had been exposed to asbestos 60 years ago and contracted mesothilioma.
- A Californian woman who had developed mesothilioma due to asbestos fibers present in her childhood home won $16 million in a case in 2002.
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