San Luis Obispo Mesothelioma Lawyers
The San Luis Obispo mesothelioma lawyers represent individuals and their families who live in San Luis Obispo or were exposed to asbestos within the city. We can help San Luis Obispo families whose lives have been tragically and irreversibly affected by mesothelioma and other asbestos related diseases.
SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA OVERVIEW
San Luis Obispo is a city in central California 230 miles south of San Francisco, with the population of 45,119. The city, locally referred to as San Luis, SLO, or SLO Town is the county seat of San Luis Obispo County and is adjacent to California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly). It is just inland from the Pacific Ocean coast, near the beach towns of Pismo Beach, Avila Beach, and Morro Bay.
San Luis Obispo has more than 180 historic buildings that have been designated as City of San Luis Obispo Historic Resources. Three of the City’s designated historic resources have also been designated as California Historic Landmarks: Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, Dallidet Adobe and Ah Louis Store. The Carnegie Library is home to the San Luis Obispo County Historical Museum, which includes a research center with information on the City’s other historical resources.
The City also has five designated historic districts. The Downtown Historic District covers the oldest part of the City, including the Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa and many commercial structures from the city’s boom era from the 1890s to the 1910s. The Chinatown Historic District was established in 1995 to recognize the contributions of the City’s Chinese community. The Old Town Historic District was established in 1987, located in the City’s oldest residential neighborhoods with historic homes dating from the 1880s to the turn of the century. The Mill Street Historic District was established in 1987, the area consists of early 20th century homes in the Tudor Revival, Craftsman, Mission Revival, Prairie Colonial, and Shingle styles. The Railroad Historic District was established in 1998 along the historic boundaries of the Southern Pacific rail yard. It includes residential and commercial resources constructed following the arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1894.
The downtown area has many eclectic shops and boutiques.San Luis Obispo is a lively and diverse city. Every Thursday evening, year round, the City hosts a vibrant farmers’ market downtown along Higuera Street. And the area boasts outdoor sports such as hiking, kayaking, surfing, windsurfing, skim boarding, diving, sailing, and kite boarding, as well as restaurants and museums to attract visitors from across the bay and around the world.
PREVALENCE OF SAN LUIS OBISPO MESOTHELIOMA LAWSUITS
The mesothelioma lawyers at Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood have over 45 years of experience working with mesothelioma lawsuits in San Luis Obispo and throughout California. Our mesothelioma lawyers can come to your home to discuss your work history, and to guide you through the mesothelioma lawsuit process. Occupational exposure to asbestos may have taken place many years in the past, and it is often necessary to take a detailed work history to determine exposure.
Many San Luis Obispo mesothelioma lawsuits involve exposure to asbestos that occurred locally within the city. San Luis Obispo is home to many facilities, shipyards, and construction projects that have used considerable amounts of asbestos products and asbestos-containing equipment.
San Luis Obispo mesothelioma lawsuits have been brought based on asbestos exposure that occurred at many specific worksites around the county such as:
- Automotive, trucking and farm equipment repair operations
- Agricultural operations
- Auto Body Shops
- Cambria Community Services District (Water) – Cambria
- Commercial construction
- Pacific Gas & Electric, Diablo Canyon Power Plant – Avila Beach
- Pacific Gas & Electric Power Plant – Morro Bay
- Residential construction
- School construction
- Union Oil (dba UNOCAL) – Arroyo Grande
- Water pipe installations
San Luis Obispo mesothelioma cases can involve industrial and shipyard exposure to asbestos by many different kinds of workers, in all variety of industrial jobs, trades, and occupations, including:
- Boilermakers
- Carpenters
- Construction Workers
- Custodians
- Drillers
- Drywallers
- Electricians
- Flooring Installers
- Foundry Workers
- Glaziers
- Home Repair
- HVAC Repair
- Insulators
- Iron Workers
- Laborers
- Lathers
- Machine Operators
- Machinists
- Engineers
- Molders
- Painters
- Paintmakers
- Pipe Installation
- Pipefitters
- Plasterers
- Plumbers
- Public Works projects
- Repairman
- Riggers
- Roofers
- Seaman
- Sheetmetal Workers
- Steamfitters
- Superintendents/Foremen
- Tiremen
- Vehicle Repair
- Welders
San Luis Obispo mesothelioma lawyers at Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood have brought successful asbestos exposure lawsuits arising from asbestos exposure at many types of worksites in San Luis Obispo, and across California, including:
- Aerospace
- Airports
- Automobile plants
- Chemical plants
- Construction sites
- Electric companies
- Factories
- Food-processing plants
- Foundries
- Garages
- Grocery retailers
- Laboratories
- Lumber yards
- Manufacturing plants
- Military facilities
- Navy ships
- Oil refineries
- Shipyards
The San Luis Obispo mesothelioma lawyers at Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood have also brought successful “take home” mesothelioma lawsuits on behalf of spouses and family members of workers who were exposed to take-home asbestos at their worksites in San Luis Obispo and brought the asbestos home on their work clothes.
Asbestos exposed workers in San Luis Obispo mesothelioma lawsuits have received care and treatment at hospitals and medical centers throughout San Luis Obispo, where oncologists and other medical professionals can make referrals to regional experts treating mesothelioma cases. These San Luis Obispo treatment facilities include:
- Veterans Affairs Community Clinic: San Luis Obispo
- Sutter Health Surgery Division: San Luis Obispo
- Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation: San Luis Obispo
EXPERIENCE OF SAN LUIS OBISPO MESOTHELIOMA LAWYERS
The offices of the mesothelioma law firm of Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood are located in Oakland, California. The Kazan firm’s mesothelioma lawyers are able to file and prosecute cases throughout California, including in San Luis Obispo.
Many San Luis Obispo mesothelioma lawsuits are designated complex litigation and are handled in the court’s dedicated Asbestos Department. Plaintiffs in are often entitled to preference on the court’s trial calendars, allowing their cases to proceed quickly to trial and resolution.
Over the last four decades, the San Luis Obispo mesothelioma law firm of Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood has recovered over $4 billion in jury verdicts and settlements in mesothelioma cases arising throughout California, including in San Luis Obispo.
CONTACT THE SAN LUIS OBISPO MESOTHELIOMA LAWYERS
If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, contact us now to speak with one of our partners. The San Luis Obispo mesothelioma lawyers at Kazan McClain, Satterley & Greenwood will bring their decades of expertise and success to your claim for mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure in San Luis Obispo. We can be reached 24/7. To get a free consultation with one of our mesothelioma attorneys, please call 1-888-887-1238, fill out the form on this page or use our live chat widget.