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A family member's been diagnosed with mesothelioma and you're wondering do they have any legal
rights? Hi. I'm Joe Williams. I'm a mesothelioma trial attorney in New York City. And I can
give you some information about this topic and it's a very important one. Because workers
in industry and various trades throughout the past century often work for decades with
their hands, building America and working with asbestos products. And these same workers
are the folks who 30, 40, 60 years later have been now diagnosed with mesothelioma. And
they are put in a position of taking a path down into their history, into their past,
to try and figure out how they could have been exposed to asbestos. Well what I can
tell you is that every day at my office, we represent people who are suffering with mesothelioma.
We represent them and their families as they take this journey to try and figure out how
they contracted this terrible disease. And what we do in all of these cases is we look
for companies -- the defendants, as they're called -- who could have exposed our clients
to asbestos. And when we're able to find those companies were through a very thorough investigation
and a lot of research into these cases, we then proceed to demonstrate in court how those
companies fail to warn our clients about the dangers of asbestos. You see, under the law
in various states (and certainly New York State, there's a duty to warn of known dangers.
Known dangers to end users, perhaps like you or your family member who worked with these
asbestos products. And that failure to warn about the known hazard -- hazard being cancer,
mesothelioma -- creates liability on these corporate entities. Why am I telling you this?
I'm telling you this because you have questions about mesothelioma and the legal process as
it relates to mesothelioma. And we can provide answers to those questions. I'm Joe Williams
and every day we represent victims of mesothelioma. We can answer your questions as well. I hope
you found this video informative and I thank you very much for watching.