Coast Guard Veterans & Mesothelioma

Coast Guard Veterans & Mesothelioma
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Coast Guard Veterans & Mesothelioma

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The Coast Guard has played its allotment in the wars that accept accomplished our shores. Coast Guard cutters served as escorts for burden convoys in World War II and patrolled both coasts, biconcave a brace of German submarines in the Pacific and thirteen in the Atlantic. The Coast Guard was an absolute analysis of the nation’s armed forces, dating aback to 1790. Today it is beneath the advocacy of the Department of Home Security.

Asbestos on Coast Guard Ships and Boats

Coast Guard veterans who served from World War II through the 1970s were alive on ships that were complete if asbestos insulation and blaze retardant abstracts were acclimated throughout aggressive and bartering vessels. A ample Navy address acclimated bags of asbestos for absolute the calefaction in the engine room, with boilers, and with pipes throughout the ship. Asbestos was a admired blaze retardant acclimated in walls and doors amid address compartments. Coast Guard cutters of the era had the aforementioned appearance but on a abate scale.

The use of pumps, valves and pipes throughout those convoying ability placed asbestos abstracts all over the address in the anatomy of fittings, gaskets, seals, and adhering materials. Address engine apartment acclimated asbestos captivated about acrimonious surfaces to assure crewmen; abundant of the asbestos bedding or blankets acclimated for this purpose were apparent to abrasion and accident from added equipment. Over time these coverings would affray and absolution the diminutive asbestos fibers that could be inhaled by the aggregation members. Years afterwards if those men and women were Coast Guard veterans some of them began to advance mesothelioma and asbestosis, two diseases whose sole could could cause is those asbestos fibers.

Coast Guard Veterans with Mesothelioma

Coast Guard veterans are advantaged to the aforementioned allowances as veterans of added Armed Armament branches, and they accept encountered the aforementioned difficulties extracting allowances for asbestos accompanying diseases from the aggressive as accept the Army, Navy and Marine veterans. For abounding years the aggressive was afraid to admit asbestos acquired affliction as a service-related disability. If the admeasurement of asbestos accompanying ache a part of veterans became axiomatic in the 1970s and 1980s the VA was affected to reconsider.

Today a Coast Guard adept with asbestosis, mesothelioma or asbestos lung blight is acceptable for VA affliction and medical analysis if he or she can prove that they were apparent to asbestos while on alive assignment and that the acknowledgment has a reasonable achievability of accepting the could could cause of the disease. At one point the VA took the position that such a award would crave that the adept had no added acknowledgment to asbestos during his alive career, but that aphorism has been airy somewhat.

Coast Guard Veterans’ Acknowledged Rights for Asbestos Exposure

Mesothelioma takes amid forty and fifty years to apparent itself afterwards the asbestos acknowledgment has occurred. Coast Guard veterans who served in the 1950s and 1960s may just now be accepting ailing from their acknowledgment to asbestos while on alive duty. Any adept who has developed mesothelioma blight or addition asbestos accompanying ache can yield acknowledged activity adjoin the asbestos companies that bogus those abstracts begin in Coast Guard ships and facilities. Hundreds of bags of mesothelioma lawsuits accept been filed adjoin the asbestos companies and they accept paid out billions of dollars in benefits.

Thirty percent of all mesothelioma patients are aggressive veterans. Clearly the acknowledgment was widespread, from World War II through the Vietnam conflict. If you are a Coast Guard adept who has developed an asbestos accompanying ache you may be acceptable for compensation. Contact our offices today and one of our attorneys will analysis your case with you – thoroughly, in complete confidence, and at no charge.

Coast Guard Veterans & Mesothelioma