A Trust Fund Victims Can't Trust
Joseph W. Hartman, Sr. story
Stuart, Florida. Joseph was born on July 30, 1926. He served our country in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946.
Joseph supported his family as a sheet metal worker with Union Local from 1946 to 1985. During his career, Joseph worked at several different job sites throughout New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania.
Part of Joseph’s career was spent working as an on-site manger, where he was continuously surrounded by other workers installing, removing, and maintaining asbestos-containing materials. Joseph also worked as a sheet metal mechanic at several hospitals, schools, and other construction sites installing, removing, and maintaining asbestos-containing materials. Joseph was never adequately warned about the dangers of asbestos.
Joseph is currently coping with the end stages of mesothelioma, an always fatal cancer caused only by asbestos. He is constantly bed-ridden and requires oxygen and medication to manage his pain. Joseph has never smoked and his health was excellent prior to his diagnosis.
Joseph lost his wife in 1994. He has three daughters and three sons. The family is desperately trying to cope with the thought of losing their father also.
How would the asbestos bailout bill hurt Joseph’s family?
Joseph has not yet filed his case. The proposed asbestos bill will prohibit Joseph’s case from ever being considered in court, and he would be forced to begin the claims process under the new asbestos trust fund.
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