{"id":353,"date":"2014-01-15T09:01:12","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2014-10-29T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:16:00","slug":"27-5-million-settlement-for-mesothelioma-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/27-5-million-settlement-for-mesothelioma-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"$27.5 Million Settlement Comes out of Cleveland Trial for 40 Year Old Mesothelioma Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"288\" cellspacing=\"3\" cellpadding=\"3\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/iStock_000012926674XSmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/iStock_000012926674XSmall-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"justice statue with sword and scale. cloudy sky in the backgroun\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/iStock_000012926674XSmall-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/iStock_000012926674XSmall.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>In the Cleveland mesothelioma case, Panza vs. Kelsey Hayes, John Panza obtained a verdict of $27.5 million. \u00a0The law firm of Waters &amp; Kraus, LLP served as council for John Panza, a 40 year old college professor who went through an extra pleural pneumonectomy (EPP). \u00a0His exposure was from his father who was a bystander at a facility that worked on friction materials and brought home fibers on his clothes.<\/p>\n<p>This was a true victory for both the plaintive, John Panza, as well as, in the legal fight against companies that need to be held responsible for the health damages that have affected families like John\u2019s and that result in mesothelioma cancer years later.<\/p>\n<p>Panza\u2019s exposure was secondary meaning that he was not directly in the environment where there was asbestos.\u00a0 Like many, the secondary exposure came into the home from work clothes of an employee, in this case John\u2019s father.\u00a0 The company that is responsible for the direct exposure should be held accountable for the secondary asbestos exposure that causes mesothelioma. For more information on secondary asbestos exposure visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/mesothelioma-dangers-at-home.html\">http:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View the full press release about this case: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1dvJJf5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Cleveland mesothelioma case, Panza vs. Kelsey Hayes, John Panza obtained a verdict of $27.5 million. \u00a0The law firm of Waters &amp; Kraus, LLP served as council for John Panza, a 40 year old college professor who went through an extra pleural pneumonectomy (EPP). \u00a0His exposure was from his father who was a bystander<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/27-5-million-settlement-for-mesothelioma-victim\/\" class=\"read-more\">&nbsp; Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","category-mesothelioma","category-uncategorized","tag-mesothelioma-case","cat-5-id","cat-2-id","cat-1-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesotheliomabook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}