Posted by Jake on 7/28/07 Last year my father had a stroke and passed away. A couple years before that, he was in the hospital after he fell and thought maybe he broke his shoulder. Turned out his shoulder was ok, but the emergency room doctor asked if my father had ever worked in a shipyard. I told him yes, during WW II. The doctor said the x-rays taken showed my father had asbestosis. He recommended my father call "that 1-800" right away because the asbestosis meant "an automatic $500,000", which of course caught my father's attention. In a follow-up with his family doctor a few days later, I asked about the asbestosis. The family doctor looked puzzled and said there was nothing in his records about that. At this point I thought the ER doctor had made a mistake. After my father passed away last year, I obtained his hospital records. I found four documents, signed by 3 different doctors at the hospital over a period of a couple years, stating my father had lung damage consistant with asbestos exposure. His family doctor still insists he had no record of this. Once, his family doctor wasn't in and he saw another doctor who works with his family doctor. I aksed her if she had any idea what the ER doctor meant by "that 1-800 number", and she said no. Then she asked why we would want to bother with that, afterall it could take years to get anything (any of that $500,000). Now that I have my father's hospital records signed by these other doctors, is it to late to do anything about collecting for his asbestosis? My father had no insurance and my mother is really struggling. Does anyone know what the ER doctor meant by the "1-800" number?
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