baron&budd,p.c.mesotheliomacase results

The information listed below represents just some of the cases Baron & Budd attorneys have handled on

behalf on mesothelioma victims and their families. It is important to note that Baron & Budd attorneys

served as lead counsel for all of these cases, which means that they did not refer out the work to other law

firms. Since some mesothelioma law firms refer out all of their cases it is important to for you to ask any

law firm you are considering if they are a referral-only firm or if they practice law with lawyers on staff.

Baron&Budd,P.C.Mesothelioma Case Results

Specific Results Depend on the Facts of Each Case.

Past Performance Is No Guarantee of Future Success.

$10,747,491.65 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses for a gentleman who developed

malignant mesothelioma as a result of his exposure to joint compound as a construction worker in

California. This case went to trial and resulted in a significant verdict in favor of the gentleman, his wife

and children that was listed by a national legal publication as one of the top verdicts in the U.S. that

year. The case subsequently settled.

$6,484,234.86 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the widow of a California

resident who died at the age of 50 after developing asbestos-related mesothelioma. He was exposed

to asbestos while serving in the Navy aboard nuclear submarines during the 1960s. This case went to

trial against the manufacturer of an asbestos-containing pipe covering product. The jury awarded a

significant verdict, which was affirmed on appeal.

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$5,277,369.29 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the family of a woman who was

diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 68. She was exposed to asbestos in construction materials

while working in her family’s California home remodeling business. The case went to trial against the

manufacturer of an asbestos-containing joint compound. The jury awarded significant damages, which

were affirmed on appeal.

$4,713,571.92 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for an ironworker who worked

at a number of West Texas industrial sites throughout his career, and who was diagnosed with

mesothelioma at the age of 79.

$3,978,982.78 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the widow of a gentleman who

developed mesothelioma as a result of his exposure to asbestos while working as an engineer at a power

plant. This case went to trial in Brownsville, Texas and resulted in a significant jury verdict, which was

affirmed on appeal.

$3,705,957.58 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the family of a pipefitter

who worked in Texas chemical plants and refineries, where he was exposed to a variety of asbestos-

containing products. He died at the age of 80 from complications related to his pleural mesothelioma.

$3,667,988.06 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for an aircraft mechanic with

worked at Texas airports, where he was exposed to asbestos. The case went to trial against the

manufacturer of an asbestos-containing pipe covering product, with the jury awarding a significant

verdict. The case subsequently settled.

$3,662,333.90 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a Texas resident who developed

mesothelioma at the age of 70. Our client began his working career in the construction industry in the

1940s as a latherer/plasterer, and eventually formed his own construction company. He was exposed

to asbestos-containing products throughout his career. The case went to trial, with the jury awarding a

significant verdict against the manufacturer of an asbestos-containing joint compound product to which

our client was exposed.

$3,591,824.96 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the family of an Iowa

gentleman who was diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 56. He was exposed to asbestos at

various construction sites where he worked as a sheet rocker, roofer and laborer.

$3,580,617.89 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the family of a former

custodian who developed mesothelioma as a result of his exposure to asbestos-containing products

during the construction and remodeling of three Texas school buildings. At times, he would personally

use asbestos-containing joint compound products to make repairs at the schools. He died of



$3,447,461.24 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the family of a gentleman

with mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos while working as a mechanical contractor at a

variety of industrial sites in a number of states over the course of his career. He was diagnosed with


$3,054,319.25 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a Louisiana welder and his

family. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 51. In addition to his asbestos exposure at

various shipyards and industrial sites, he was exposed to asbestos brought into the home when he was a

child because he lived with a sheet metal worker and a welder.

$2,885,779.82 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the family of a Texas man

diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 49 who was exposed to asbestos while working as a

machinist and a welder.

$2,828,851.92 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a gentleman diagnosed

with mesothelioma at the age of 62. He was exposed to asbestos while working as a young man in

commercial and residential construction in Texas.

$2,743,242.23 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for Texas man who spent his career

in Texas oil refineries and chemical plants, working as a carpenter, insulator, painter and brickmason.

Because of his occupational asbestos exposure, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 75.

$2,730,032.65 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a woman and her family. This

woman, 63 years of age at the time of her diagnosis, suffered what is commonly called “household

exposure” to asbestos. She was exposed to asbestos fibers brought home from work on the clothing of

her father, a foreman in Illinois steel mills. Later, she was also exposed to asbestos brought home on

her husband’s clothes from his work in construction sites in Iowa and steel mills in Illinois.

$2,590,164.33 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a Louisiana man and his family.

He was 74 years of age when he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, caused by his exposure to asbestos

as a laborer and millwright at a paper mill. The case was tried to a jury, which awarded a substantial

verdict; and the judgment was affirmed on appeal.

$2,519,175.05 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a 62-year-old California man

with mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos while working in carpentry and construction.

$2,484,790.77 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the widow of a Texas man

diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 74. He was exposed to asbestos during his career laying

water and sewer lines.

$2,472,637.32 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the widow of a man who

died of mesothelioma at the age of 58. He was exposed to asbestos as a salesman going in and out of

construction sites in Pennsylvania. He was also exposed to asbestos as a child through his father’s work

clothing in the family home. This type of exposure is commonly called “household exposure.”


$2,483,106.61 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a 46-year-old man with

mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos while working as a drywall, roofer and carpenter in

commercial and residential construction sites in California. He was also exposed to asbestos through

his Naval service.

$2,460,152.42 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the family of a 57-year-old man

with mesothelioma. He was exposed to asbestos through his work as an painter, insulator and boiler

operator at construction sites and chemical plants in Texas and Massachusetts.

$2,409,395.75 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a Navy veteran diagnosed

with mesothelioma at the age of 63. In addition to his military exposure to asbestos, he was exposed to

asbestos while working as a machinist and operator at a Texas oil refinery.

$2,307,099.84 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a Kentucky woman and her

family. This woman experienced “household exposure” when her father and husband brought home

asbestos on their clothes. She was also exposed to asbestos through her own work in a variety of

industrial settings, and she was diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 55.

$2,302,663.60 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a gentleman with

mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos while serving in the engine rooms of Navy ships in the late

1950s and early 1960s.

$2,301,117.44 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the family of a man who

worked as a millwright at numerous industrial sites throughout his career and who was diagnosed with


$2,284,526.52 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a Louisiana man and his

family. This gentleman was exposed to asbestos as an industrial x-ray technician. As a result of his

exposure, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 58.

$2,217,676.63 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the family of a Iowa man who

was occupationally exposed to asbestos while working in a variety of trades. He was also exposed to

asbestos when his father brought the fibers home on his clothes—which is sometimes called “household

exposure.” He was 70 years of age when he was diagnosed with mesothelioma.

$2,215,983.76 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a gentleman diagnosed with

mesothelioma at the age of 61. He served as a boiler tender aboard Navy ships and later worked as an

auto mechanic in Kentucky and as a carpenter’s helper at new and remodeled construction sites in

Massachusetts and Kentucky.

$2,192,101.98 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, who developed mesothelioma at

the age of 74 as result of his exposure to asbestos while working at a petrochemical plant in the 1960s

and 1970s.


$2,159,973.51 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a 39-year-old woman diagnosed

with mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos through her construction worker-father’s work clothes.

$2,136,975.32 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a career electrician/

journeyman who was diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 58.

$2,134,578.70 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a construction worker and his

family. He was 80 years of age when he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, caused by his exposure to

asbestos at a great number of California construction sites. The case went to trial and settled shortly

before the jury was expected to reach a verdict.

$2,097,544.06 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a gentleman who developed

mesothelioma as a result of his exposure to asbestos while working as a carpenter at a munitions plant.

$2,049,694.83 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a woman diagnosed with

mesothelioma at the age of 67. She came into contact with asbestos by handling her construction

contractor husband’s work clothing.

$2,031,393.93 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a 72-year-old woman diagnosed

with mesothelioma. She was exposed to asbestos in the family home both as a child and an adult

through her father’s and husband’s work clothing.

$2,022,109.01 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a former roughneck and his

family. This gentleman was diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 68. He was exposed to asbestos

as a roughneck, pipefitter and laborer in chemical plants and oil fields in Louisiana and Texas.

$2,019,352.53 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for an 85-year-old gentleman with

mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos during his career as a construction worker.


with mesothelioma at the age of 59 who was exposed to asbestos while working as a tradesman at an

aluminum plant.

$2,001,747.10 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a former welder and pipefitter

who was diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 51. He was exposed to asbestos while working

for a number of Louisiana contractors. His case was successfully tried to a jury, and the judgment was

affirmed on appeal.

$1,992,112.97 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a gentleman who had once

worked as a custodian at an oil refinery where he was exposed to asbestos. He was diagnosed with


$1,977,748.79 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, who was exposed to asbestos as a

construction worker and was diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 61.



mesothelioma who worked as a machinist in the 1950s - 1970s.

$1,953,321.41 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a 62-year-old former engineer

diagnosed with mesothelioma.

$1,908,130.68 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a woman who developed

asbestos-related mesothelioma as a result of her exposure as a child to her father’s work clothing.

$1,901,181.63 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a 60-year-old gentleman with

mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos while working as a boiler repairman and carpenter.

$1,860,486.99 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a gentleman exposed to

asbestos as a foreman at a lead smelter who developed mesothelioma at the age of 72.

$1,857,552.65 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a career construction worker

who developed mesothelioma at the age of 70. He was exposed to asbestos while working on various

industrial and commercial construction projects.

$1,842,853.00 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the family of a woman who

died at the age of 44 from mesothelioma. She was exposed to asbestos as a child through her father’s

work clothes in the family home.

$1,842,333.46 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a woman diagnosed with

mesothelioma at the age of 77 who was exposed to asbestos in the home while laundering her

husband’s work clothes.

$1,768,573.34 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a gentleman diagnosed with

mesothelioma at the age of 61, who was exposed to asbestos while working as a roofer, carpenter and

drywaller at residential and construction sites.

$1,765,467.23 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the family of a steelworker who

died of asbestos-related mesothelioma at the age of 49. At trial, the jury awarded a significant sum after

finding the manufacturer of an asbestos-containing refractories product responsible for the gentleman’s

exposure to asbestos.

$1,764,579.41 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, who developed mesothelioma as a

result of his exposure to asbestos during his career as a pipefitter and plumber.

$1,749,484.17 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for an 80-year-old gentleman

exposed to asbestos as a career plumber.

$1,737,721.39 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a housewife who developed

mesothelioma resulting from her exposure to asbestos while laundering the work clothes of her

husband, a construction worker.



mesothelioma who had worked as a career machinist.

$1,695,136.06 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a woman who developed

mesothelioma at the age of 65. She was exposed to asbestos through her father, a shipyard worker, and

through her husband, an oil refinery worker.


mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos while working as a tradesman a number of industrial

facilities throughout his career.


mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos during his career as an electrician.

$1,659,380.46 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a retired insulator who worked

at a shipyard and who was diagnosed with mesothelioma at the age of 72.

$1,654,438.77 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a 58-year-old man exposed to

asbestos while working at a paper mill.


mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos as a boiler operator in the Navy and later, while working in

schools and hospitals.


mesothelioma exposed to asbestos while working as a journeyman electrician.

$1,544,459.49 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a man who was exposed to

asbestos as a power plant operator and who developed mesothelioma at the age of 65.


mesothelioma who had worked as a rigger at an oil refinery.

$1,505,354.44 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, who was exposed to asbestos-

containing refractory products while working as a construction engineer for a steel plant and who

developed mesothelioma as a result.

$1,500,041.16 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the widow of a career insulator

who worked at a chemical plant and who died of mesothelioma at the age of 77.

$1,484,491.59 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a 74 year old gentleman with

mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos as an oil refinery worker.


mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos while working in the construction and maintenance of

several power plants.


$1,356,419.21 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a 75-year-old man exposed to

asbestos during his career as a power plant operator.

$1,347,644.29 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for an 82-year-old gentleman with

mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos as a ship engineer for an oil company and while serving in

the Navy.

$1,320,919.72 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a 74-year-old gentleman

diagnosed with mesothelioma who worked as a furnace installer and repairman.

$1,293,632.42 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a career brick mason who was

exposed to asbestos at several industrial and commercial job sites and who developed mesothelioma as

a result.

$1,280,057.82 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a 67-year-old gentleman who

was exposed to asbestos as a journeyman electrician.


with mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos while working as a laborer and brick mason at an

aluminum plant.


mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos while serving in the Navy.

$1,243,088.96 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a career ironworker who was

exposed to asbestos during the course of his career and who was diagnosed with mesothelioma at the

age of 68.

$1,266,869.50 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for a career pipefitter who was

exposed to asbestos at several industrial facilities and who developed mesothelioma as a result.


mesothelioma who was exposed to asbestos while working as an equipment mechanic at a steel mill.

$1,198,454.51 Received by Client after Attorney’s Fees and Expenses, for the family of an ironworker

who developed mesothelioma as a result of his exposure to asbestos while working at an oil refinery as

well and industrial sites. The jury awarded a significant verdict against the oil company where he once

worked.


You are not alone in your fight for justice. Baron & Budd is on your side.

For legal help, call Baron & Budd at 800-946-9646 or email us at [email protected].

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