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If you live in Los Angeles and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, it is important that you work with a lawyer who knows how asbestos exposure occurred and how to evaluate your claim. Contact our lawyers to schedule a free consultation.

Los Angeles Veterans & Mesothelioma

Being the populated and well-situated city that it is, Los Angeles, California is home to several important American military bases. The Joint Forces Training Base – Los Alamitos was previously operated by as a naval air station. At the time of this article it supports 850 full-time employees and more than 6,000 National Guard and Reserve troops. The Los Angeles Air Force Base is located near the city. Edwards Air Force Base and March Air Force Base are also nearby. The U.S. Coast Guard also has an L.A. base. All branches of the military used asbestos at one time, so service members could have been exposed to this dangerous material during their time of service and later be diagnosed with mesothelioma.

Los Angeles California Asbestos and Mesothelioma Lawsuits

Los Angeles has been a venue that has provided several high profile verdicts in the early part of the 21^st century. Some of the more notable verdicts found in the public news involving unaffiliated law firms include:

• A case in 2010, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded an enormous amount to a 71-year-old woman who contracted second-hand mesothelioma from the asbestos dust on her husband’s work uniform. Her husband cut asbestos cement pipe for the City and County of Los Angeles. The woman received a large amount in compensatory damages. Her husband was awarded a lesser but still significant amount in loss of consortium. The family was also awarded a gigantic sum in punitive damages.
• In November 2018, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury awarded a 65-year-old man a huge sum of money who had been exposed to asbestos while supervising workers who cut and beveled the defendant’s pipe, which caused asbestos fibers to become airborne and inhaled by the man. The award included punitive damages, compensatory damages, damages for the man’s pain and suffering and a sizable amount to the man’s wife for loss of consortium.
• A Los Angeles jury awarded a woman a massive amount who alleged that she developed mesothelioma cancer from using Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder product. 6,000 other cases against the manufacturer for claims alleging that the baby powder product caused ovarian cancer.
• A Los Angeles jury awarded an immense dollar figure in April 2018 to the surviving family of a man who installed and cut asbestos cement pipe. The award included another large amount in punitive damages, but this portion of the award was later reduced by a judge.
• In September 2018, A Los Angeles County jury awarded a substantial amount to the son of a pipefitter who was exposed to asbestos due to the defendant’s boilers containing asbestos insulation, eventually causing the man to develop mesothelioma and die from the disease.
• A Los Angeles jury awarded a banker who had renovated a house since the 1960s a hefty amount. The jury found that joint compound, caulk, stucco, roof cement and decking materials the man used in the renovation contained asbestos and the product manufacturers were responsible for the damages the man sustained.

In addition to these booming verdicts, many other cases were resolved through favorable settlements. The value of these settlements is often not made publicly known because of confidentiality agreements.

The value of each claim is based on a number of specific factors. Contact our lawyers to receive an estimate on the potential value of your claim.

Los Angeles California Asbestos Site Exposure List

Los Angeles has hundreds of job sites, public facilities and other locations where asbestos was used and people could have been exposed to dangerous levels of this material. Some of the more prominent locations where asbestos exposure may have occurred in Los Angeles, California include the following:

• American Smelting & Refining Company
• Apex Steel Corporation
• ARCO Plaza
• Armour & Company
• Armstrong Cork Company
• B F Goodrich Company
• Bethlehem Steel Corporation
• Bethlehem Steel Shipyard
• Borden Chemical Company
• California Zonolite
• Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company
• Consolidated Steel Corporation
• Continental Oil Company
• Dow Chemical Company
• Edwards Air Force Base
• El Rey Products Company
• El Segundo Steam Plant
• Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
• Ford Motor Company
• Foremost Dairies
• General Electric Company
• Gypsum Company
• Hauser Packing Company
• Hawaiian Cement Corporation
• Hughes Air Craft
• International Paper Company
• T. Thorpe, Inc.
• Johns-Manville Products Corporation
• Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical
• Los Angeles City Water & Power
• Los Angeles Railway Company
• March Air Force Base
• Mobil Oil Company
• Nabisco
• Oscar Mayer & Company
• Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
• Owens-Illinois
• Pacific Coast Fireproofing
• Pacific Electric Railway Company
• Pacific Finance Building
• Pillsbury Mills
• Procter & Gamble Manufacturing Company
• Quaker Oats
• Richfield Oil Corporation
• Shell Oil Company
• Southern Pacific Railroad
• Stauffer Chemical
• Todd Shipyard
• Union Oil Company of California
• Union Pacific Railroad Company
• United Linen Supply Company
• Wilshire Oil
• World Trade Center
• Xerox