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If you have parents who served in the military, there are ongoing maritime lawsuits on behalf of families and estates of the servicemen who may have developed or even died from asbestos exposure or mesothelioma. The legal recourse years ago wasn’t as solid as it is now. Now, hundreds of millions of dollars are being settled on behalf of maritime and military families in class action lawsuits. My father worked on one of these ships with the merchant marines and using asbestos was a common practice. He used to tell us how they mixed asbestos products on the merchant marine ship for hours. There were few safety check then and many of these maritime merchant marines got sick years later from mesothelioma and asbestos poison. Law firms have begun lawsuits against … Read entire article »

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