Financial Assistance for Mesothelioma Victims and Their Families

Based in Baltimore, Maryland &
Serving Maryland & all of Washington D.C.

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Mesothelioma victims and their families may be entitled to compensation or assistance from several State or Federal organizations such as:

State Workers’ Compensation
Medicare (regional map)
Federal Employee’s Compensation Program
Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Program    
Department of Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center

State Workers’ Compensation funds may be available if your State Workers’ Compensation laws cover mesothelioma. Mesothelioma has been linked primarily to asbestos exposure in the workplace. If you qualify, you may be entitled to both financial compensation and medical benefits.

Medicare covers some people with asbestos-related illness. If you have been given a diagnosis that qualifies, such as mesothelioma, contact your regional office or call 1-800-633-4227. Medicaid contact information can be accessed through Medicare.

The Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs, Employment Standards Administration, U.S. Department of Labor administers four major disability compensation programs. These programs offer to workers or their dependents who qualify for work-related injuries or diseases:

• Wage replacement
• Medical treatment
• Vocational rehabilitation
• Other benefits

If you were a federal employee, a longshoreman, harbor or maritime worker who was injured or contracted a disease related to your work, or whose disease was worsened as a result of working conditions you may be eligible.

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center (VA) offers medical care for both service-connected and nonservice-connected diseases to veterans.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published Current Best Practices for Preventing Asbestos Exposure Among Brake and Clutch Repair Workers, a downloadable PDF file, concerning work practices for those working in automotive and home mechanics fields designed to avoid asbestos exposure. It includes OSHA’s regulatory requirements for automotive workers.

While there seem to be many financial sources of assistance for victims of mesothelioma and their families, the assistance available may not be sufficient to cover all costs of living and medical care. These options cannot remedy the loss of quality of life, or the imposition on the victims’ lives, the strain on the victims, family members, and caretakers, the loss of social interaction, the limitations on activities, and a multitude of disruptions, costs, pain and sufferings.

You sacrificed your health and well-being, which also impacts your family’s well-being, for the sake of keeping your employer in business, and likely earning huge profits. Your employment agreement was to trade a paycheck for your labor, only, not your health.

Please don’t let you and your family be cheated twice. The experienced mesothelioma lawyers in Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. at the firm of Parker, Dumler & Kiely LLP can make the difference between just getting by and living the fullness of life for as long as you can.

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