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If you were exposed to asbestos in New York City, it is important that you act quickly and contact an experienced mesothelioma lawyer who can discuss your legal rights and options. Contact us today to get started on your claim.

Terrorist Attacks on 9/11 and Asbestos Exposure

After the World Trade Centers were attacked in 2001, a massive dust cloud extended several blocks across the site. Community members, emergency response personnel and volunteer rescue workers who worked in this area and breathed in the dust could have breathed in asbestos fibers, heavy metals and other toxins that contaminated the site of the Twin Towers. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people exposed to the debris in the area have developed various health problems, other cancers and mesothelioma. The WTC Health Program added mesothelioma to the list of conditions it would cover in 2012. Congress passed a law in 2015 that reauthorized this program for another 75 years. A lawyer can discuss if you might be able to file a claim with this program to cover the damage you have sustained.

New York City Asbestos and Mesothelioma Lawsuits

New York City has seen its fair share of significant asbestos verdicts. In June 2019, a New York jury first ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $25 million to a woman who claimed she had developed mesothelioma after using the company’s talc baby powder products on a daily basis for multiple decades. The following week, the jury ordered an additional punitive damages award of $200 million for the woman and her husband. The woman claimed that the company contained asbestos in its product, but the company denies this. The company is facing 14,000 claims alleging that the product caused women to suffer ovarian cancer.

In 2017, a New York jury returned a verdict of $4.6 million in favor of a 75-year-old man who was exposed to asbestos while he worked as a shipfitter, laborer and maintenance laborer in New York city and the surrounding area. He alleged that his asbestos was caused by exposure to asbestos-contaminated valves that he was exposed to while working as a welder.

New York City Asbestos Site Exposure List

As the largest city in the country, there are hundreds of jobsites and public locations in New York City where individuals could have been exposed to asbestos in New York City including the following:

• Acands, Inc.
• Alloys & Metals Company of America
• American Smelting and Refining Company
• American Sugar Refining Company
• American Tobacco Company
• Asbestos Construction Company
• Asbestos Distributors
• Brooklyn Naval Shipyard
• Carbondale Machine Company
• Central Union Gas Company
• Chemical Construction Corporation
• Chemtex Fibers, Inc.
• Columbia University
• Consolidated Electric Light Company
• L. and W. Railroad Company
• Defoe Shipyard
• Essex Company
• Esso Standard Oil Company
• Fordham University
• Fort Terry
• General Chemical Company
• General Electric Company
• General Motors
• GMD Shipyard
• Goodyear Tire & Rubber
• W. Johns Manufacturing Company
• Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation
• Johns‐Manville International
• Kellex Corporation
• King Insulation Company, Inc.
• Lion Chemical Corporation
• Liquid Carbonic Company
• Maine Ship Repair
• Military Chemical Works, Inc.
• Mobil Oil Corporation
• Motorola, Inc.
• Nassau Light and Power Company
• National Gypsum Company
• National Steel Company
• New England Engineering Company
• New York Carbon Works
• New York Central and Hudson River Railroad
• New York Dock
• New York Gas Electric Light Heat and Power Company
• New York Naval Shipyard
• New York University
• Nichols Chemical Company
• Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation
• Oxford Paper Company
• Pacific Power and Light Company
• Pure Carbonic Inc.
• Ray Consolidated Copper Company
• Southern Steel Company
• Sprayon Insulation & Acoustics, Inc.
• Standard Asbestos Manufacturing & Insulating Company
• Stauffer Chemical Company
• Union and Southern Pacific Companies
• Union Carbide Olefins Company
• United Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
• United States Smelting
• S Steel
• R. Grace and Company
• World Trade Center