Massachusetts was the heart of the industrial age early in the nineteenth century. Its access to the Atlantic made the state a major shipbuilding site for many of those years; the Boston Naval Shipyard is still operating today. There were dozens of Massachusetts industries built using asbestos insulation and asbestos roofing, asbestos cement and pipes in Boston alone. The city had railroad yards, power plants and manufacturing facilities built by companies like Westinghouse.
While Boston was the commercial center, cities Like Lowell and Worcester had the mills and plants that turned out consumer products like shoes and textiles. Boston and Cambridge became education centers, but the buildings that went up for Harvard, MIT, Northeastern University and Tufts were often built with asbestos insulation, flooring, ceiling tiles and heating systems that used asbestos around the boilers and pipes.
General Electric, Humble Oil, Monsanto Chemical and W.R. Grace’s Zonolite manufacturing facility were scattered through the small towns surrounding Boston that are part of the metro area today. W.R. Grace also had an asbestos mine at one time in the central part of the state. The variety of industries found in Massachusetts throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries provided multiple sources for asbestos exposure in the workplace and the resulting asbestos diseases.
Legal Rights of Massachusetts Asbestos Victims
The statute of limitations in Massachusetts for both personal injury cases and wrongful death cases is three years. For mesothelioma patients wishing to file a claim, the opportunity to do so in a Massachusetts court is three years after the diagnosis. For a widow or another relative who has lost someone to asbestos cancer, legal action may be taken three years after the date of death.
If you are a Massachusetts resident suffering from an asbestos related disease, you should speak with an experienced attorney who knows Massachusetts law and the history of asbestos litigation both in the state and in the federal courts. Fill out the brief form on this page and one of our attorneys will be in touch immediately. There is no charge for our consulting services. Read more about how to to find the right Asbestos lawyer as well as recent Mesothelioma case settlements in addition to lawsuits for Mesothelioma.
