The mesothelioma attorneys at Elk & Elk are among Ohio’s finest

Federal agencies have been regulating asbestos use since the mid-1970’s.

Unfortunately, asbestos regulation came too late to help the thousands of workers whose exposure to the ancient, fire-retardant fiber caused an insidious form of cancer called mesothelioma. Fortunately, Elk & Elk’s team of mesothelioma lawyers are armed with nearly 50 years’ experience defending the rights of people affected by industrial America’s use of asbestos.

A study released in June, 2008 by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health shows between 1999 and 2004, nearly 1,000 Ohioans over the age of 15 died from mesothelioma. Over that same period, the state's mesothelioma-related death rate grew from more than 11 to nearly 23 people per million Ohioans.

To Elk & Elk’s mesothelioma attorneys, these numbers paint a sobering picture about the lasting effects of this deadly fiber. And the facts behind the numbers, like the idea that Big Business for decades tried to conceal its deadly attributes, makes mesothelioma and the many other asbestos-related maladies even more tragic. The ill effects of asbestos began to surface as early as the late-1800’s. Unfortunately, the production of asbestos-containing materials continued to grow until the mid-1970’s and widespread removal and regulation of the deadly fiber didn’t really take hold until the mid-1980’s.

Any mesothelioma lawyer worth his salt will tell you that, when corporate greed eclipses the value of human life, a grave injustice is born. No amount of money can replace the thousands of workers injured by way of asbestos’ deadly side effects, not to mention the thousands of innocents whose mere proximity to asbestos in buildings or processing facilities has caused them harm.

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, you need a resourceful, experienced law firm whose track record proves it can take on Big Businesses and the highly-paid lawyers hired to represent it. At Elk & Elk, our team of lawyers, paralegals, doctors, nurses, accountants, economists, analysts, investigators and experts work hard to level the playing field between average, everyday injury victims and the massive corporations and huge insurance companies who fight tooth-and-nail to avoid paying just compensation to the people they turn into victims.

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