Mesothelioma Compensation - Halliburton Co. to pay $ 30 million in damages

February four, 2005, the Halliburton Company was ordered to pay thirty million dollars in compensation to the families of the 120 people who worked for the shipyards, construction sites and industrial facilities in the Pacific Northwest or served on military ships served in Seattle . Halliburton Company effective establishment of $ 4.3 billion as part of a national program to end settlement receivables and payables of asbestos. This settlement will cater for people who are struggling, people who have died, and people continue to die from exposure to asbestos in the coming years. The company has agreed to pay 2.78 million dollars and put on 59.5 million shares of its shares to form a trust for future victims of asbestos related diseases.Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries Inc. in 1998 and inherited the asbestos and silica complaints filed against the company. The workers of the company were wrongly exposed to the toxic effects of asbestos fibers in their place of work, and most of them had brought the asbestos fibers home on their work clothes to expose even their family members to this toxic substance. Dresser officials knew about the harmful effects of asbestos fibers, but they were only concerned about the profits they were making form the sale of their products.All mesothelioma victims should file lawsuits against people who deliberately and wrongfully exposed to asbestos, so they need to get as much information you can get about mesothelioma lawyers and mesothelioma lawsuits