“I represented a family. The mother of the family, she passed away again before I could meet her. And she had two adult sons and a husband who I worked with to work on the case.
And the husband and the two sons, they were car guys. Their hobby was buying cars and flipping them. And not necessarily to sell them for a profit—they just liked having new cars and they’d get bored of them and then they’d want to flip them and have a new one.
And the way that this family would spend time together after school, on the weekends, even when the boys were out of school, they would come home because their dad had all the better tools. And they would just hang out in the garage and mom would come by. She had a folding chair she would set up in the corner just to hang out with them. And, you know, she wouldn’t say too much, but she just wanted to see her boys be happy. And they were working on brakes primarily and they also worked on engine gaskets. And so they were working with compressed air, blowing out brake drums, blowing out engines. And their mom just happened to be in there and was innocently exposed to respirable asbestos dust.
I was able to make sure they recovered from, you know, these companies that put asbestos in brakes, which, you know, is a product that anybody can buy from an automotive store, not some specialty item that you need to have an industrial facility to acquire. It’s just sold at, you know, your local AutoZone or Joe’s auto shop, and you could take it home, you could work on it, and just be innocently exposed to a very harmful substance that can cause cancer.”
