Santa Clara Mesothelioma Lawyers
Santa Clara mesothelioma lawyers represent individuals and their families who were diagnosed with an asbestos related illness, including asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma resulting from their exposure to asbestos, talcum powder or talc. We offer hope to families whose lives have been tragically and irreversibly affected by mesothelioma and other asbestos related diseases.
Santa Clara, California Overview
According to the 2020 census, over 127,000 people make their home in Santa Clara. The city covers an area of 18.4 square miles in Santa Clara County. Santa Clara has been transformed from its agrarian origins and today is considered the heart of Silicon Valley. The City is home to the headquarters of many tech companies including Intel, Applied Materials, Advanced Micro Devices, and Nvidia.
The Los Costanos (the coast people), now known as the Ohlone are the indigenous inhabitants of Santa Clara. Their way of life was changed forever with the European conquest and the establishment of Mission Santa Clara de Asis in 1777. Mission Santa Clara was the 8th mission in the chain of 21 missions established by Padre Junipero Serra.
In the 1850’s The Santa Clara town site was surveyed by William Campbell and divided into lots. A schoolhouse and church were built, and small businesses began to grow. Santa Clara incorporated as a town in 1852, and was chartered 10 years later. Fruit drying, shipping and packing industries thrived in the area and formed the backbone of the local economy for many years.
Today, Santa Clara provides over a quarter of all jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area, attracting people from around the world. Santa Clara is also home to Santa Clara University, the first institution of higher education established in 1851, in the State of California. The farms and orchards have largely vanished, replaced by massive tech establishments including Intel and Applied Materials. Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium has become one of the premiere outdoor destinations for sports and entertainment in the Bay Area, hosting world class musicians, sports teams and major sporting events including the Super Bowl, and in 2026, Soccer’s World Cup.
PREVALENCE OF SANTA CLARA MESOTHELIOMA LAWSUITS
The mesothelioma lawyers at Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood work throughout California and will come to your home in Santa Clara to discuss your work history, and to guide you through the mesothelioma lawsuit process. Occupational exposure to asbestos may have taken place many years in the past, and generally, it is necessary to take a detailed work history to determine exposure.
Many Santa Clara mesothelioma lawsuits involve exposure to asbestos that occurred in the city or in the surrounding area. Santa Clara mesothelioma lawsuits have been brought based on asbestos exposure that occurred at many nearby worksites around the city, including:
- Auto Body Shops
- Commercial construction
- Residential construction
- School construction
- Air Products & Chemicals, Santa Clara – Chemical Plant
- CertainTeed Asbestos Cement Pipe Plant, Santa Clara – Manufacturing
- Container Corporation, Santa Clara – Manufacturing
- EBMUD Filter Plant – Utilities
- El Camino Hospital – Construction
- Hewlett-Packard, (various throughout county) – Manufacturing
- Monsanto, Santa Clara – Chemical Plant
Santa Clara mesothelioma cases may involve industrial and construction exposure to asbestos by many kinds of workers, in a variety of industrial jobs, trades, and occupations, including:
- Automotive
- Boilermakers
- Carpenters
- Construction Workers
- Custodians
- Drillers
- Drywallers
- Electricians
- Flooring Installers
- Foundry Workers
- Glaziers
- Home Repair
- HVAC Repair
- Insulators
- Iron Workers
- Laborers
- Lathers
- Machine Operators
- Machinists
- Marine Engineers
- Miners
- Molders
- Painters
- Paintmakers
- Pipe Installation
- Pipefitters
- Plasterers
- Plumbers
- Public Works projects
- Repairman
- Riggers
- Roofers
- Seaman
- Sheetmetal Workers
- Steamfitters
- Superintendents/Foremen
- Tiremen
- Vehicle Repair
- Welders
The Santa Clara mesothelioma lawyers at Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood have brought successful asbestos exposure lawsuits arising from asbestos exposure at many types of worksites across California, including:
- aerospace
- airports
- automobile plants
- chemical plants
- construction sites
- electric companies
- factories
- food-processing plants
- foundries
- garages
- grocery retailers
- laboratories
- lumber yards
- manufacturing plants
- military facilities
- mines
- Navy ships
- oil refineries
- power plants
- shipyards
The Santa Clara mesothelioma lawyers at Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood have also brought successful “take home” mesothelioma lawsuits on behalf of spouses and family members of workers who were exposed to asbestos at their worksites in Santa Clara and inadvertently brought the asbestos dust home on their work clothes.
Asbestos exposed workers in Santa Clara mesothelioma lawsuits have received treatment at hospitals and medical centers within the county, and throughout California. These mesothelioma treatment facilities include:
- Kaiser Permanente (Campbell, Gilroy, Milpitas, Mountain View, San Jose, Santa Clara)
- University of California Health Care: UCSF (San Jose)
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Palo Alto)
- Veterans Affairs Clinic (San Jose)
- Stanford Health Care (San Jose, Palo Alto, Los Gatos, Mountain View)
- Sutter Health (Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Gatos, Mountain View, Milpitas, San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale)
EXPERIENCE OF SANTA CLARA MESOTHELIOMA LAWYERS
The Santa Clara mesothelioma lawyers of Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood have brought hundreds of successful mesothelioma cases on behalf of workers injured throughout California, including Santa Clara. Santa Clara County mesothelioma lawsuits can be filed in the civil court system at the Santa Clara County Courthouse at 1095 Homestead Road, in the city of Santa Clara. Plaintiffs in Santa Clara County mesothelioma lawsuits are often entitled to preference on the court’s trial calendars because Santa Clara County mesothelioma lawsuits are designated as complex litigation, which allows their cases to proceed quickly to trial and resolution.
The offices of the mesothelioma law firm of Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood are located in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland, California. The Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood mesothelioma lawyers can file mesothelioma lawsuits in Santa Clara.
For nearly five decades, the Santa Clara law firm of Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood have recovered over $4 billion dollars in jury verdicts and settlements in mesothelioma cases arising throughout California, including in the city of Santa Clara.
CONTACT THE SANTA CLARA MESOTHELIOMA LAWYERS
If you or a family member have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, contact us now to speak with one of our partners. The Santa Clara mesothelioma lawyers at Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood will bring their decades of expertise and success to your claim for mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure in Santa Clara. To get a free consultation with one of our mesothelioma attorneys, please call 1-888-887-1238, fill out the form on this page or use our live chat widget.