Throughout our entire lives we become accustomed to simple, visible cause-and-effects. You hit your finger with a hammer, and it hurts. You fall, and break your arm.
Those are easy to see, and easy to understand.
It’s far more difficult to understand the idea that small doses of a chemical over days, months, or years can cause serious health problems many years later. There’s no clear link.
In addition to making it hard for regular people to understand, it makes it extra hard for a court to make the connection. After all, that cancer could have come from anything. Do you smoke? Well, clearly it was the smoking.
No one wants to pay large amounts of money for someone’s else’s health care if they can avoid it, so companies will find every excuse not to pay you. Anything you do can become ammunition for them to use to deny you your payments.
The fact of the matter is that workers can easily be exposed to harsh, cancer-causing chemicals that may take five, ten, or even twenty years to cause cancer, but their progress is inexorable, and the cause-and-effect chain is made of steel.
If you suspect that you’ve been exposed to chemicals that may cause serious illnesses in several years, or if you’ve already developed an illness that you think was caused by chemical exposure on the job, you should contact a lawyer as soon as possible to ensure that you have someone on your side, advocating for you to get what rightfully belongs to you.
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