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You were recently diagnosed with mesothelioma and you were wondering how you can bring a
case now when you were exposed to asbestos many years ago. Hi. I'm Joe Williams. I'm
a mesothelioma trial attorney in New York City and I'd like to give you some information
about something called the statute of limitations, as it relates to mesothelioma cases. And I'll
tell you at the outset that each state has their own rules about statute of limitations.
And I can tell you that in New York the time limit of when you can bring a lawsuit starts
to run from the day that you're diagnosed. So that means that at the time when you knew
or should have known that you had an asbestos related disease -- often it's the biopsy which
definitively diagnoses mesothelioma -- that the time to bring a lawsuit starts to run
at that point. So what happens in every mesothelioma case is we have someone who has been diagnosed,
sometimes the patient (the client) is 70, 80 or 90 years old and they were exposed to
asbestos perhaps back in World War II or 20, 30, 40 years ago. And there's a very long
latency period from the time of exposure to the time of diagnosis with mesothelioma and
that's widely accepted in the medical and scientific community. So we're always journeying
back -- many times decades in time -- to the time when those asbestos exposures took place
in order to prove up those exposures and show the evidence of exposure to asbestos. But
you still can bring a legal case and certainly in New York that time starts to run from the
time of diagnosis. Now these rules change from time to time and I don't know at what
point in time you're watching this video. So this information is current as the time
of this video. But to get specific answers about the statute of limitations and how it
can relate to your case, there's only way to do that and that's to call me. The number
below is my office. My name is Joe Williams and I invite you to give me a call and we
can talk about all these nuisances and facts as they relate to your case. We're here to
help you and to give you information about your case. Thank you so much for listening.