Arkansas housed several heavy industries such as power plants, paper mills, chemical factories, aluminum plants, and oil refineries, high-risk places of asbestos exposure. Historically, several prominent industries including paper mills, power plants, and chemical plants in Arkansas have subjected their workers to the risk of asbestos exposure and of developing related diseases, such as lung cancer. Asbestos was extensively used in industries before the 1980s, because of its fire resistance properties.
62 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Flint Creek Power Plant
40 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• A.M.C., Inc.
• Bare Brand Hosiery
• Campbell Soup Plant
• G.W. Shirley Plumbing & Heating Company
88 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Ball Serv. Dist. & Eng. Company
• Ballman Cumming Furniture
• Capco Plant
• City of Fort Smith, Ark Water Department
• Dyke Brothers
• Fort Smith Chair Company
• Fort Smith Light and Traction Company
• Gerber Plant
• Global Steel
• Oklahoma Gas and Elec Tire Company
• Triangle Insulation Company
• Vender Bros., Inc.
• Whirlpool
• Williams Energy
35 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Arkansas Nuclear One Generating Station
• Arkansas Power & Light
• Bechtel Power Plant
• Bornice Anthracite Coal. Company
• Firestone
• Nuclear One Powerhouse
15 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Independence Steam Station
38 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Arkansas Glass Container Corporation
• Arkansas Water and Light Plant
• City Water & Light Plant
• Jonesboro Water & Light Plant
• Northeast Arkansas Insul. Company
10 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Plant 7, Poinsett Lumber and Manufacturing Company
• Poinset Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Plant Number 9
• Poinsett Lumber and Manufacturing Company
• Poinsett Lumber Company Plant North 8
• Poinsett Lumer Company
• Singer Company Wood Prod Div
• Singer Furniture
• Singer Manufacturing Company
20 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Buckeye Cellulose Corp
• Delta Products Company
• Lee Wilson Company Soy Bean Mill
• Tri State Refining Company
• Wilson Lee & Company
21 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Cacus Lumber Company
• Dacus Lumber Company
• Flint Steel Company
• Mississippi Valley Generating Company
• Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
1 to 2 Asbestos-related deaths (1979-2001)
• Carl E. Bailey Generating Station
166 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• 3M Company
• A.M.F. Cycle Plant
• Arkansas Brick and Tile Company
• Arkansas Power and Light
• Ashner Avenue Station
• Ashner Avenue Team Track
• AT&T
• Breeding Insulation Company Inc.
• Buckeye Cotton Oil Company
• Central Heating and Manufacturing Company
• Central Supply Company
• City Ice and Cold Storage Company
• City Light Plant
• Cole Manufacturing Company
• Darrach Company Const.
• E.L. Bruce Company
• Eagle Home & Building Insulators
• Fagan Company, Inc.
• Fischer Cement & Roofing Company
• General Heating and Construction Company
• Jiffy Insulation Company
• Kansas City Hard Wood Flooring Company
• Knox Hill Siding
• Little Rock Basket Company
• Little Rock Cotton Oil Mills
• Little Rock Heating Company
• Little Rock Railway and Electric Company
• Little Rock Traction and Electric Company
• Lucent Technologies
• Marion Hotel Company
• Merchants Lighting Company
• Middle South Services, Inc
• Missouri Pacfic Railroad Company
• Missouri Pacific Railroad
• Olin Mathieson Chemical
• Ozark Insulation Company
• Pfeifer Plumbing & Heating Company, Inc.
• Phillips Lighting Company
• Pine Bluff Arsenal
• Pirelli Tire North America
• Proctor and Gamble Company
• Retail Crucers Ice Company
• S.W. Bell Telephone
• Southwest Manufacturing
• St. Louis Mountain and Southern Railroad Company Union Station
• Sun Company
• Swift & Company
• Telephone Building
• Teletype
• Timex Airport Plant
• Tower Building
• UA Journeyman & Pipefitting Industry
• Union Pacific Railroad
• United Electric Securities Company
• United Insulation
• W R Wrape Stone Company Inc
• Westinghouse
• Winburn Tile Company
73 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Arkansas Power & Light Company
• Bechtel Corp
• Feather Lite Manufacturing Company Div N
• Hot Springs Electric Light Company
• Hot Springs Water Company
• Lake Catherine Power Plant
• Reynolds Metals
• Union Carbide
• Valley Planing Mill Company
• Vulcan Materials Company
86 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Alcoa
• Alcoa Aluminum
• Aluminum Company of America
• Hurricane Creek Plantt
• Indeck Power Equipment Company
• Reynolds Aluminum
• Reynolds Metals Company
124 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Alcoa
• Alcoa Aluminum
• Aluminum Company of America
• Hurricane Creek Plant
• Owasso Manufacturing Company
• Reynolds Aluminum
• West Side Paint
10 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Arkansas Power & Light Company
• Arkla Chemical Company
• Helena Cotton Oil Company
• Helena Gas Electric Company
• Helena Ice Company
• Helena Power Company
• Middle South Utilites, Inc.
• Premier Cotton Mills
33 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Arkansas Kraft
• Cotton Belt Railroad
• Dierks Paper Company
• Dierks Paper Mill
• Dravo Steel Shipping
• Federal Office Building, Warrior Construction Company
• General Water Works Corporation
• International Paper Company - Southern Kraft Division
• International Paper Mill
• Paper Mill
• Pine Bluff Light and Water Company
• Pine Bluff Mill
• Seaman Dunning Corp
• So. Kraft Div International. Paper Company
• Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
• St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company
• Standard Brake Shoe
• Tri State Mill & Supply Company
• U. S. Army Pine Bluff Arsenal
36 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Acme Brick
• Arkansas Power & Light Company
• General Sheet Metal Company
• International Paper Corp
• Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America
• Reynolds Metals
10 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Alcoa
• Arkansas Light and Heat and Power Company
• National Gypsum Company
• Reynolds Aluminum Plant
• Reynolds Metals Company
1-2 Asbestos-related deaths (1979-2001)
• Bradley Lumber Company
• Bradley Lumber Company of Arkansas
• Potlatch Forrests Inc
• Southern Lumber Company
• Tri State Mill & Supply Company
17 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Davis Construction Company
• International Paper Company
• John L. McClellan Generating Station
• N.A.D. Ordinance Plant
• Southern Kraft Corporation
• Southern Kraft Div International. Paper Company
• Tri State Mill & Supply Company
17 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Berry Petroleum
41 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Cross Oil
10 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Crossett Lumber Company
• Crossett Paper Mills Inc.
• Georgia Pacific Corporation
• Georgia Pacific Pulp & Paper
• Jones Mechanical Contractors
• Tri State Mill & Supply
41 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Ace Contractors, Inc.
• Ace Supply
• American Oil Refinery
• Amoco
• Arkansas Light and Power Company The Pine Bluff Company
• Bitucote Product Company
• Chemical Plant
• Columbia Carbon Plant
• Columbian Gibson Company
• Dodson Insulation Company, Inc.
• El Dorado Chemical Plant
• El Dorado Foundry
• El Dorado Light and Water Company
• Great Lakes Chemical
• Industrial Tool & Die Casting Company
• John Monk Refinery
• Lawrence Electric Company, Inc.
• Lion Oil Company
• Monsanto Chemical Company
• New Sulphur Plant
• Ozark Ordnance Works
• Pan Am Southern Corporation
• Root Petroleum Company
• Root Refining Company
• Skelly Oil Company
• Tasco Refinery
• Tosco Corporation
• Union Floors Carpet
• Wheeling Pipe Line
10 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company
• Arkla Chemical Corp
• Ethyl Corporation
• Great Lakes Chemical
• Kalmar Steel Corp
• Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation
• Southern extrusions
• Southwestern Bell Telephone
• Arkansas Power & Light
• Arkansas Power & Light Company - Couch S. E. Station
• Entergy Pine Light
• Harvey Couch Steam Elec
• Middle South Utilities Inc.
• Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation
• Pineville Kraft Corp
18 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
166 Asbestos-Related Deaths (1999-2013)
• Ark Power and Light
• Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corp
• Arkansas Mechanical Contractors
• Arkansas Power & Light, Lynch Station
• Arkansas Power and Light Company
• Buck Eye
• Cecil Lynch Station
• Koppers Company Inc
• Lynn Whitsett Company
• Mo-Pac Railroad
• Rozzell Corporation
• W.R. Grace
If you were injured by occupational asbestos exposure and struggle with one of the diseases below, you are immediately eligible for compensation. Since these are very serious diseases that are directly linked to asbestos exposure, all you have to do is give our law firm a call and send our legal experts the necessary documents for filing a claim.
Lung Cancer Mesothelioma Throat Cancer Esophageal Cancer Bronchial Cancer Gastrointestinal Cancer Colorectal CancerOn the other hand, if you suffer from one of the following diseases and suspect it was the result of asbestos exposure, you will be required to undergo free, additional medical tests with our medical team in Birmingham, Alabama in person. Because the connection between these health problems and asbestos exposure is not completely clear, we will need to find out whether asbestos exposure is the real cause of your diagnosis.
AsbestosisPulmonary FibrosisPleural PlaquesPleural EffusionDiffuse Pleural ThickeningCOPDEmphysemaChronic BronchitisPleurisyLung NodulesLung SpotsAsthmaTuberculosisPneumonitisHistoplasmosisRounded AtelectasisLung Scarring Bladder CancerCalifornia has enacted laws that protect the rights of individuals, regulating asbestos claims filed in the cases of asbestos-related injuries due to workplace exposure. Arkansas laws enable people who develop pulmonary diseases and lung cancer due to asbestos exposure in the workplace to file asbestos claims and receive compensatory benefits from asbestos product manufacturing companies and workplaces responsible for their exposure.
If you have worked during the 1960s-1980s at a shipyard, refinery, or power plant in this state, you are at the potential risk of developing asbestos-related diseases. Occupations associated with asbestos exposure during that period were mining and milling of raw asbestos, construction, product manufacture, and use of end products. Sharing the workspace where others handled asbestos could have, also, exposed you to asbestos.
Asbestos OccupationsVeterans who served in the 1940s-1980s are, also, at high risk of developing health problems from asbestos because many military occupations entailed asbestos exposure. Veterans eligible for benefits are not only the ones that served in the main five branches (air force, army, coast guard, marines, navy) but also those who served in other uniformed services: national oceanic and atmospheric administration, U.S. environmental services administration, U.S. public health service.
Asbestos Exposure & VeteransPerhaps the most frightening aspect of asbestos exposure is that you didn't have to work with asbestos or in an asbestos processing plant to inhale airborne fibers. In the past, asbestos workers and veterans went home carrying asbestos dust on their clothes, because of a lack of proper industrial hygiene. The families were then exposed via inhalation of asbestos dust. Asbestos secondary exposure can be the source of potential asbestos-related diseases. Our legal system offers workers, veterans, and family members the option to file asbestos claims.
Asbestos laws are usually divided into two categories which include the rules that handle safety issues and the regulations that specify the legal rights of people who have suffered asbestos exposure in the workplace. The goal of this state legislation is public security and management of asbestos-related hazards.
If your significant other or anyone else in the family has worked with asbestos and subsequently you got cancer or an asbestosis diagnosis, you are entitled to get fair and adequate monetary compensation.
Case EvaluationThe attorneys at Environmental Litigation Group, P.C. can help you file an asbestos claim and recover compensation for:
Surviving family members can recover compensation for:
If you have developed lung cancer or other asbestos-related diseases and suspect you have suffered a chronic exposure to asbestos at your worksite, you can file an asbestos claim.
To submit the request successfully, you need to be aware of the time limitations. You need to follow the statute of limitations applicable in the state of Arkansas. The statute of limitations is the deadline for filing your asbestos claim. In Arkansas, the personal injury statute of limitations for lung cancer claims is two years from the date of the diagnosis of the condition.
For a wrongful death asbestos claim, that the family members can file, the time limit is two years from the death of their loved one.
Current and former residents of Arkansas diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease, and their family members should contact us as soon as possible. The statutes of limitations are only two years from the date of the diagnosis (for personal injury claims) and the time of death (for wrongful death claims). In 90% of the cases, we file asbestos trust fund claims rather than going through a lawsuit. Our experienced attorneys will help you with the steps involved in the asbestos claim process.
At Environmental Litigation Group, P.C., we strive to get you the best asbestos claim results possible. To pay out asbestos claims, asbestos trust funds managers rely on something called case valuation matrix. The case valuation matrix is a document approximating historical settlement values and assigning different values for compensable cancer types. The base dollar amounts vary by state or region because location sets occupational asbestos exposure levels. The table below provides the average settlement values, by disease level, at asbestos trust funds with seven disease levels, as presented in Rand Corporation's report on Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts.
Disclaimer: Compensation for your asbestos case will be calculated starting from the base calculation matrix, increasing or decreasing the level of compensation according to the specifics of your case. Factors that can affect the value of your case include, but are not limited to, your location, age, work history, pain and suffering, the asbestos products involved in occupational exposure, and expenses related to your illness. Individual cases vary based on such factors, and previous results don't ensure an equal outcome. The factors specific to your case make it difficult to predict its value before you file an asbestos claim. So, determining how much your case is worth can be a complicated process. If you have any questions about settlements and your legal rights, please contact us immediately for a free consultation.
See Our ProcessWe are a team of experienced mesothelioma and lung cancer lawyers with practical knowledge, well-informed on the Arkansas asbestos laws and the complexities involved in filing asbestos claims. Our lawyers will keep you up to date and provide step-by-step guidance regarding the legal process required to obtain the justice and compensation you deserve. As we work with multidisciplinary specialists, we can provide information about the best medical professionals in your area.