What Are the Legal Options for Veterans Exposed to Asbestos?

One of the main benefits of filing a claim with your VA is that it can entitle you to compensation for your exposure. Another great benefit is that if that you or a loved one has passed away, the family can also be entitled to compensation for the loss of their loved one. And lastly, you can also be entitled to healthcare through the VA. So that’s just one of the main avenues. Second, we can file a lawsuit, and this entails pursuing the responsible parties for your asbestos exposure. And lastly, we’re able to also pursue bankrupt defendants, bankrupt manufacturers, who have declared bankruptcy, and although we’re not able to file a case against them, we can pursue and submit claims to their trust and also get you recovery that way as well. Veterans served our country, and they are frequently hesitant about suing the government or suing the Navy, and I want to make clear, that based on what you were talking about, you know, you file your claims with the VA if you decide to do that, but if we decide to file a lawsuit, we are not suing the government, we are not suing the Navy, we’re not suing the Air Force, or Army. What we do is we sue the product manufacturers that were part of that service that led to the exposure. So I mean that gives a lot of veterans the comfort of knowing that they’re not suing the country that they served. I want to make clear, to any veterans that may be watching this, you don’t have to sue the branch of government that you were in. In fact, they’re probably immune in almost all cases from prosecution. We sue the manufacturers, for example, if you were on a ship, we will sue the manufacturers of the pumps, the valves, the turbines, the boilers, all the different types of products that were on that ship are the defendants that will be in your lawsuit.