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A mesothelioma diagnosis rarely comes with a warning. It usually shows up 20 to 50 years after the asbestos exposure that caused it, long after the mine, steel mill, or military base involved has closed or changed its name. What you need right now is a way to cover treatment, replace lost income, and protect your family. We can help you take on the company responsible, from tracing the exposure to filing the claim.
As a Utah mesothelioma lawyer resource for people exposed at sites like Geneva Steel, Kennecott, and Hill Air Force Base, we know how to trace exposure back even decades after the job site closed or changed hands.
While you focus on your health and your family, our trial team takes on the companies responsible. Kelley Ferraro, LLC has recovered over $1 billion for asbestos and mesothelioma clients nationwide over nearly 30 years, including a $10.6 million verdict our trial team won in front of a jury. Past results don’t guarantee a similar outcome.
Share where you worked and what you were diagnosed with. Once we’ve reviewed your diagnosis and work history, we can explain what your case may be worth.
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Asbestos exposure does not cause one single disease, and the claim you can bring depends on your diagnosis, your work history, and how you were exposed.
Our Utah mesothelioma lawyers build claims around:
Once you reach out, here is what happens with your Utah asbestos claim, step by step:
1. We investigate your work history and medical records to identify the companies whose product likely caused your exposure, going back as far as necessary.
2. We determine whether you qualify for a personal injury claim, an asbestos bankruptcy trust claim, workers compensation, or a combination of all three.
3. We file in the correct venue, often the Third District Court in Salt Lake City, and track the filing deadlines that apply to your specific claim.
4. We prepare your case for trial from the very first day. Being ready for trial can strengthen your negotiating position, since it shows the other side you’re prepared to go the distance.
5. We keep you and your family updated as your case moves forward, so you know what’s happening and what’s next. If a trust fund claim applies alongside your lawsuit, we pursue both at once rather than making you wait.
Waiting has real costs. Records get harder to find, coworkers move on, and companies dissolve or merge. Trust funds set up to pay these claims also run on their own filing deadlines, layered on top of the statutory one, and missing either can shrink what you’re able to recover.
Our trial team has represented clients in courts across the country. That approach has produced results like these:
| Outcome | Case Type |
| $10.6 Million | Mesothelioma Verdict, Jennings v. Honeywell, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (2021) |
| $20 Million | Mesothelioma Verdict, peritoneal mesothelioma from secondary childhood exposure to a father’s work clothes, against Honeywell International, Inc. |
| $17 Million | Mesothelioma Verdict, against Koch Industries Inc. (Georgia-Pacific LLC), 2015, for exposure during work as a painting supervisor for Raytheon in Saudi Arabia |
| $8.2 Million | Mesothelioma Verdict, against Union Carbide Corporation, Cuyahoga County, Ohio (2018) |
| $1.6 Million | Wrongful Death Verdict against Pittsburgh Corning Corp., Cicchillo v. A Best Products Co., Cuyahoga County, Ohio (2000) |
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome in your case.
Utah does not have shipyards, but its mining, steel, and military industries used asbestos just as heavily for most of the 20th century. If you worked at any of the following, you may have grounds for a claim:
Asbestos and product liability claims connected to Utah exposure are generally filed in the Third District Court in Salt Lake City, which handles civil litigation for Salt Lake County. Some cases belong in federal court instead, depending on where the responsible company is based.
Wherever you worked, we investigate the exposure history and file where the facts put you in the strongest position.
Utah gives you three years from the date your illness is discovered to file a claim tied to asbestos-containing building materials. Other kinds of exposure, like mining equipment or aircraft parts, may fall under a different deadline, depending on your work history. Evidence and witnesses disappear fast either way, so starting now helps protect your case. It costs nothing upfront to get started or to ask questions.
Yes. Mesothelioma often takes 20 to 50 years to appear, and your filing deadline runs from the date of discovery, not the date you worked there (see above for which deadline applies to your exposure type). We have handled cases involving job sites and companies that no longer exist under their original name, and know how to trace exposure back through the changes.
We take these cases on contingency, which means you owe us nothing in fees unless we recover compensation for you. Your first consultation is also free, and we’ll walk you through exactly how the fee works before you sign anything.
It depends on your medical costs, lost income, and how many companies contributed to your exposure. We will not give you a made up number here. We calculate every category of compensation the law may allow, including pain and suffering, once we review your diagnosis and full work history.
Yes. Utah allows a wrongful death claim in this situation. But a wrongful death claim has its own deadline: two years from the date of death, not from the date of diagnosis. That’s a different, and often shorter, clock than the three-year discovery deadline described elsewhere on this page.
In many cases, yes. Workers’ comp usually only affects claims against your own employer. Asbestos cases are almost always filed against the companies that made the asbestos, not your employer, so you can often pursue both. We’ll review your situation and explain what applies to you.
Every case moves at its own pace, depending on how many companies are involved and whether trust fund claims apply. We work to resolve cases as quickly as the facts allow.
No. Most early work, gathering records and discussing your case, happens by phone and video before any travel is needed.
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City treats mesothelioma patients and is a nationally recognized cancer center. We are not your medical team, but we regularly work alongside treatment schedules so your legal case stays out of the way of your care as much as possible.
If you still have questions after reading this, reach out and we’ll walk through your specific situation with you.
A mesothelioma diagnosis brings enough to deal with already.
Reach out to Kelley Ferraro, LLC today. Share where you worked and what you were diagnosed with, and our trial team will walk you through your options and the deadline that applies to your case.
There is no cost to ask, and no obligation to move forward until you are ready.
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