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If you live in Philadelphia and were recently diagnosed with mesothelioma, it is important that you work closely with an experienced mesothelioma lawyer. Our lawyers have important information to share with you about asbestos in Philadelphia and legal help. Contact us to find out how we can help with your case.

Philadelphia Pennsylvania Mesothelioma Treatment Options

Philadelphia is home to some of the world’s most renowned cancer centers, including Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine and the Fox Chase Cancer Center. Both organizations have sizable research programs that frequently develop new treatments for cancer.

Philadelphia PA Asbestos Site Exposure List

As the state with the third highest rate of mesothelioma diagnoses, Pennsylvania has thousands of sites throughout the state where companies were known to have used asbestos and exposed workers and the community to asbestos. As the largest city in the state, Philadelphia has hundreds of jobsites where people may have been exposed to asbestos, including the following:

• P. Green Refractory Company
• Acme Iron & Metal Company
• Acme Markets
• Ajax Metals Company
• Alan Wood Steel
• Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation
• Aluminum Company of America
• Aluminum Smelting Corporation
• American Bridge Company
• American Can Company
• American Engineering Company
• Arco Oil Refinery
• Athos Steel Mill
• Atlantic Metals Company
• Atlantic Oil Refinery
• Barber Asphalt Paving Company
• Barrett Chemical
• Belmont Oil Works
• Botfield Refractories Company
• BP Oil Corporation
• Cambria Steel Company
• Camden Copper Works
• Campbell Soup Company
• Celotex
• Connelly Paper Company
• Cramps Shipbuilding Company
• Crown Paperboard Company
• Domino Sugar Refinery
• Drexel University
• Dupont De Nemours Company Ei
• Edison Electric Light Company
• Fairmount Construction Company
• Firestone Rubber Company
• Franklin Smelting & Refining
• Garrett & Sons
• General Electric Company
• Globe Rubber Company
• Gulf Oil Corporation
• Hydro-Blast Corporation
• Keebler Biscuits Company
• Keystone Construction Company
• Keystone Drydock
• Lehigh and Wilkes Barre Coal Company
• M and W H Nixon Paper Company
• Manganese Steel Forge Company
• Marcal Paper Mills, Inc
• Marietta Metal Products Corporation
• Maryland Steel Company
• Midvale Steel Company
• Midvalley Coal Company
• Mobil Oil Company
• Monsanto Chemical Company
• Nabisco
• Naval Air Station
• Naval Aviation Supply Depot
• Naval Dry Dock
• Naval Ship Engineering Center
• New River Rocahontas Consolidated Coal Company
• New York Philadelphia and Norfolk Railway Company
• New York Shipbuilding Company
• Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
• Philadelphia International Airport
• Philadelphia Ironworks
• Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
• Reading Railroad Company
• Remmey Refractories
• Schaeffer Brewery
• Sinclair Refining Company
• Standard Oil Company
• Sunoco Philadelphia
• S. Steel
• United Electric Company of America
• University of Pennsylvania
• US Army Supply Base
• Wyoming Ave and G St.

Philadelphia Mesothelioma Lawsuits

Philadelphia has seen its fair share of sizable verdicts and awards to people diagnosed with mesothelioma and their families. Some notable verdicts include:

• $25.2 million – In 2008, a Philadelphia jury returned a $25.2 million verdict in three consolidated cases brought by the families who had relatives die from malignant mesothelioma. Some of the cases settled for a confidential amount, but the one plaintiff whose case went to the liability phase was awarded $7 million in compensatory damages and $18.2 million in punitive damages after the jury found that the Navy vet who worked in Philadelphia but had primarily been exposed to asbestos products when he lived and worked in Kentucky and developed mesothelioma as a result of the actions of the product manufacturers. The jury found some of the defendants were grossly negligent for failing to warn of the known dangers of asbestos.
• $7.2 million – A Philadelphia jury returned a verdict exceeding $7.2 million in 2014 to the estate of a shipfitter against nine companies that manufactured products that contained asbestos that the shipfitter used at his job.
• $4.8 million – In 2015, a Pennsylvania appeals court affirmed a verdict for $4.8 million for two wives whose husbands had developed mesothelioma after long-term exposure to asbestos.