Mesothelioma is a condition of respiratory cancer, which is incurable till today. This cancer is caused by inhaling asbestos fibers which lines the inside of the lungs and brings about this disease. Most cases of Mesothelioma are caused due to asbestos breakage or wear either at work or at places of residence. Mesothelioma does not show until years have past from the time of ingestion. So people who suffer from Mesothelioma are not very certain as to how and where they got it from i.e. if they have been moving about and jumping jobs very often.
People who are detected with Mesothelioma have a zero survival rate and they are hungrily approached by lawyers, who want to make good money quickly. The first Mesothelioma case was filed in 1966 but was lost, the second asbestos related malignant Mesothelioma case was filed immediately after this one, for a co-worker of the first person who brought the case and this was won, with the victim getting $80000. This was way back in 1966 where inflation had not taken its toll as it has now. In 2001, for a Mesothelioma case being awarded the victim stood to get about $1 million, with the lawyer getting about 40% of the booty and if the case did go to trial then the victim got up to $6 million.
With all the money that is being made in Mesothelioma cases, a lot of racketeering and scams have started with people trying to falsify evidence to tap into the money that is being made available. Even genuine Mesothelioma cases are being approached by lawyers and they are conned into signing in with them. These lawyers then leave the victims high and dry with no money left to even pay their bills.
There are also fraud cases on the other side of the fence, where there is proof of companies knowing that Mesothelioma being an asbestos related cancer tried to hide the information from as early as the 1930s. Companies too have observed that the statistics of Mesothelioma patients are higher among those who have been exposed to asbestos in their area of work. There are also known cases of safety officers falsifying documents to pass certain constructions which are unsafe where the asbestos hazard is concerned. The case of Saverio Todaro is similar to this; he was formerly a New York safety inspector, who fraudulently passed about 200 constructions in their toxic reports. He pleaded guilty on March 26th 2011 for 11 counts of felony spanned over a decade.