So I'm trying to figure out realistic timelines here because I need to understand what we're actually looking at financially. I was diagnosed in November and my lawyer is already talking about filing, but I want to know what the actual range is. Is it months? A year? Multiple years?
I worked at the Johns-Manville plant in Cleveland from 1978 to 1985 doing insulation work, so the exposure is well documented. My case should be pretty straightforward from that standpoint. But I'm reading conflicting things online about whether you're talking 6 months or 3 years or what.
Does it depend on whether you settle versus going to trial? And are there cases that get held up because the defendant is dragging things out, or is that more of a legal threat than something that actually happens in practice?
I'm not trying to rush the process if it means getting less money, but I also need to plan around this and I can't do that without some actual numbers.