Lubbock Asbestos & Mesothelioma Lawyer
Danziger & De Llano is a nationally-recognized asbestos and mesothelioma law firm based in Texas. We are known for 30+ years of success in representing victims of asbestos exposure and getting them the compensation they deserve. Our track record includes:
- Over $2 billion recovered for mesothelioma clients
- 30+ years of experience in asbestos litigation
- Access to $30 billion in asbestos trust funds
- Fast Settlements
- Serving families across the US— as quickly as possible
Settlements Reached
$6.1 million
$4.75 million
$3.3 million
$3.2 million
Our Lubbock Office
Danziger & De Llano Mesothelioma Law Firm
7 Briercroft Office Park Suite 214 Lubbock, TX 79412
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One of the Nation's Top Asbestos & Mesothelioma Law Firms Serving Lubbock
The reasons why so many Lubbock families trust us with their asbestos-related claims are simple:
Texas-based firm with over 30 years of experience
Proven results — over $2 billion recovered
No-cost consultations and no fees unless we win
Why Lubbock Workers and Families Are at Risk for Asbestos-Related Disease
Lubbock sits at the center of one of the most productive cotton-growing regions in the world, and for most of the 20th century that agricultural abundance supported a significant cotton-processing industry within and around the city. Cottonseed oil mills, which processed cotton byproducts into edible oils and meal, used asbestos in steam lines, boiler insulation, dryers, and high-temperature processing equipment across facilities that operated continuously during processing seasons. Workers maintaining this equipment including boilermakers, pipefitters, millwrights, and industrial mechanics, handled asbestos-containing insulation and components across careers that often spanned 20 or more years at the same facility. Cotton gin equipment and grain-handling facilities in the surrounding South Plains region similarly used asbestos in steam-heated systems and building fireproofing.
The Permian Basin oil and gas fields that lie to the south and west of Lubbock provided employment for generations of Lubbock-area workers who traveled to field sites in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. Oilfield workers who serviced drilling rigs, maintained pumping units, and worked on pipeline infrastructure encountered asbestos in pipe insulation, valve and gasket assemblies, and the insulated equipment on production facilities and refineries associated with Permian Basin operations. Lubbock also served as a regional hub for commercial construction like schools, hospitals, government buildings, and commercial centers built during the city’s growth from the 1950s through the 1970s incorporated asbestos-containing building materials across all major trade categories.
Lubbock’s status as a medical and educational hub has attracted diverse populations with significant asbestos-exposure histories. These include veterans who retired to the region following military service and workers who relocated to Lubbock after spending decades in West Texas industries or the Gulf Coast refinery belt. Mesothelioma’s 20-to-50-year latency means that Lubbock residents diagnosed today may be living with the consequences of exposure that occurred at an oil field job, a cotton processing plant, or a military installation decades in the past. Danziger & De Llano represents Lubbock and Lubbock County families regardless of where the primary exposure occurred in their work history.
Real Case Study
Brianna's Story
Brianna, a 75-year-old Lubbock, Texas resident, spent 16 years working in a warehouse for a cast-iron pipe and fittings manufacturer, stocking, checking, and shipping pipe fittings and gaskets. Diagnosed with lung cancer in 2023, Brianna never smoked, and her family believes her exposure traces back to her years handling pipe gaskets, which commonly contained asbestos.
$30 Billion Available for Mesothelioma Patients via Asbestos Trust Funds
If you’ve been diagnosed with mesothelioma or an asbestos-related illness, you’re entitled to compensation from these trust funds. The same is true if a loved one has passed away due to these diseases.
But you have to file a claim to receive the payout you deserve. The skilled mesothelioma lawyers at Danziger & De Llano make this process easy and ensure you receive maximum compensation.
We’ve helped families claim over $2 billion in mesothelioma & asbestos compensation, including hundreds of millions for families in Lubbock and across Texas. Contact us for a no-cost consultation to discover what your mesothelioma claim could be worth.
Let Our Asbestos Attorneys Help You Get the Payout You're Entitled To
Our experienced attorneys regularly secure multi-million dollar settlements for victims of asbestos exposure and mesothelioma.
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Even if your loved one has passed away we can recover significant compensation for your family.
Meet Our Mesothelioma Attorneys
When you call Danziger & De Llano, you speak directly with attorneys who have handled over $2 billion in asbestos client recoveries — not a call center.
Co-Founder & Mesothelioma Attorney at Danziger & De Llano
Bar No. 00788880
Admitted 1993
Over $2 billion in total client recoveries. Real-life inspiration for the 2011 film Puncture (starring Chris Evans).
Co-Founder & Mesothelioma Attorney at Danziger & De Llano
Bar No. 00786666
Admitted 1993
Named to Super Lawyers. 30+ years of dedicated mesothelioma and asbestos litigation experience.
Mesothelioma Attorney at Danziger & De Llano
Bar No. 24032914
Admitted 2001
Leads client intake and exposure history investigations. Works directly with families nationwide.
Local Overview & Historical Context
This South Lubbock address sits within the broader footprint shaped by two of the city’s most significant twentieth-century institutions: Texas Tech University and the former Reese Air Force Base southwest of the city. Both grew substantially during the same mid-century decades — the 1940s through the 1970s — when asbestos-containing materials were standard in American institutional and military construction, and both are separately documented as containing legacy asbestos in their older buildings.
Reese Air Force Base began in 1942 as the Lubbock Army Air Corps Advanced Flying School, and its initial wartime construction relied on the asbestos-containing insulation products mandated for military use at the time, reportedly including materials supplied by manufacturers such as Johns-Manville. Reactivated in 1949 as Reese Air Force Base, the installation served as a Strategic Air Command pilot training base throughout the Cold War, ultimately training more than 25,000 pilots before its closure in 1997 under the federal Base Realignment and Closure process. The base’s construction and expansion decades coincided precisely with peak U.S. asbestos consumption, and the Department of Defense’s own construction specifications of that era effectively mandated asbestos-containing fireproofing, thermal insulation, and building materials for cost and durability reasons.
Institutional & Military Building Exposure Sites
Following its 1997 closure, the former Reese Air Force Base was redeveloped first as the Reese Technology Center and, as of 2025, renamed the Texas Tech University Reese National Security Complex under a partnership between Texas Tech and the Lubbock Reese Redevelopment Authority. Base redevelopment and adaptive reuse projects of this kind routinely require asbestos survey and abatement work before older military buildings can be repurposed for civilian research or educational use, creating a documented, ongoing exposure-management concern at the site distinct from the base’s original operational-era risk.
Texas Tech University and Texas Tech College (the institution’s earlier name) are independently documented on regional industrial-exposure site listings alongside the Texas Tech Library, reflecting asbestos content identified in the university’s original mid-century campus construction. Lubbock’s public school buildings from the same era — including Lubbock High School, Estacado High School, and Bayless Elementary — are documented on the same regional exposure-site listings, consistent with the standard use of asbestos ceiling tile, floor tile, and pipe insulation in American public school construction nationwide before 1980.
Veterans and civilian contractors connected to Reese Air Force Base retain two potentially independent avenues of recourse: VA disability benefits for service-connected asbestos disease — which, unlike Texas’s two-year civil statute of limitations for asbestos lawsuits under Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003, carries no comparable filing deadline — and civil litigation against the third-party manufacturers of the specific asbestos-containing products used in the base’s original construction.
Statistics, Current Regulatory Landscape & Litigation Context
Lubbock County recorded an estimated 91 asbestos-related deaths between 1999 and 2017 according to EWG Action Fund’s analysis of CDC WONDER mortality data, an average of roughly 1.7 deaths per year — a smaller total than Texas’s major metropolitan counties, reflecting Lubbock’s role as a regional rather than heavy-industrial center, though still a meaningful and likely undercounted disease burden given asbestos disease’s long latency and the documented presence of legacy asbestos across the city’s institutional and military building stock.
Because asbestos-related disease typically takes 20 to 50 years to develop after exposure, Reese Air Force Base veterans and Texas Tech-area construction and maintenance workers from the base’s Cold War operating decades, or from the university’s mid-century expansion years, are only now reaching the age range where mesothelioma, asbestosis, and asbestos-related lung cancer diagnoses commonly appear.
On the regulatory front, the EPA’s March 2024 final rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act banning ongoing uses of chrysotile asbestos remains under legal challenge in the Fifth Circuit, with the EPA asking in June 2025 to pause litigation brought by the Texas Chemistry Council while it reconsiders certain provisions through new rulemaking. For the former Reese Air Force Base specifically, ongoing redevelopment activity under the Reese National Security Complex partnership makes AHERA-compliant asbestos survey and abatement work an active, present-day concern rather than a purely historical one.
Claims connected to this Lubbock address are typically filed in Lubbock County district courts. As with other Texas military and institutional asbestos claims, establishing a viable case generally requires documenting the specific building, job duties, and time period of exposure, along with product identification tying that exposure to a specific manufacturer — particularly important for Reese-connected claimants given the base’s multiple redevelopment phases and the resulting complexity of tracing which original 1940s-era buildings remain standing today.
Our Mesothelioma Claims Services
Mesothelioma Lawsuits
If trust funds don’t cover your damages, we take legal action against negligent manufacturers. Each individual case settles for well over a million.
Asbestos Trust Fund Claims
We file claims on your behalf and pursue the maximum available compensation — $30 BILLION.
Veterans’ Asbestos Claims
We’ve helped many veterans file asbestos-related claims without affecting their VA benefits.
Wrongful Death Claims
We assist families in pursuing justice after a loved one passes due to asbestos exposure. STRICT TIME LIMITS APPLY.
Asbestos-Related Lung Cancer
Even smokers can qualify — we’ll review your history to determine eligibility. Some tobacco products had asbestos in them.
How to File a Mesothelioma Claim with Us
1.
Free Case Review
We assess your eligibility and answer any questions — no pressure, no obligation.
2.
Exposure Research
Our team investigates where and how you were exposed to asbestos anywhere in the country.
3.
Claim Filing
We handle all paperwork and submit claims to applicable trust funds.
4.
Payment Issued
Danziger & De Llano’s hands-on involvement is why most of our claims resolve quickly through asbestos trust funds, often in just 3 to 4 months and without ever setting foot in a courtroom, so you get compensation while there’s still time to use it.
Compensation Options for Mesothelioma Victims in Lubbock
When it comes to securing your maximum payout an asbestos-related death or diagnosis, we pursue every option available to you. You may be entitled to compensation through one or more of the following:
- Texas asbestos trust fund payments
- Legal settlements or jury verdicts
- Veterans benefits for asbestos exposure and mesothelioma diagnosis
- Wrongful death compensation for families who have lost a loved one
Many clients receive compensation within three months of filing an asbestos-related claim with us.
Employers in Lubbock, TX
Below is a partial list of employers in Lubbock where asbestos may have been present. This list for general informational purposes only and does not guarantee absolute accuracy. Listing a company or facility does not imply fault, actual exposure, or legal liability.
Eagle-Picher Industries
The Lubbock division made construction equipment (rough-terrain lift trucks, truck-mounted forklifts, wheeled-tractor scrapers)
Operated a diversified manufacturing plant from 1982. Asbestos liabilities of this company are administered through the Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. Personal Injury Settlement Trust (EPI), which arises from products made elsewhere rather than from this site.
Frito-Lay Lubbock plant
Food processing and manufacturing
Operated a food processing and manufacturing plant from 1982. Facilities of this type and period routinely used asbestos-containing insulation on boilers, piping and other high-temperature equipment.
Gould's Pumps Lubbock plant
Industrial pump manufacturing
Operated an industrial pump manufacturing plant from 1982. Facilities of this type and period routinely used asbestos-containing insulation on boilers, piping and other high-temperature equipment.
Lubbock cottonseed oil mills
(three mills operating; Lubbock was the world's largest cottonseed-processing centre)
Cottonseed oil milling and agricultural processing
Operated a cottonseed oil milling and agricultural processing plant from 1955. Facilities of this type and period routinely used asbestos-containing insulation on boilers, piping and other high-temperature equipment.
Reese Air Force Base
(formerly Lubbock Army Air Field / Reese Field)
Military pilot training; aircraft and facility maintenance
Operated a military pilot training facility from 1941. Facilities of this type and period routinely used asbestos-containing insulation on boilers, piping and other high-temperature equipment.
Texas Instruments Lubbock plant
Electronics and semiconductor manufacturing
Operated an electronics and semiconductor manufacturing plant from 1982. Facilities of this type and period routinely used asbestos-containing insulation on boilers, piping and other high-temperature equipment.
More Texas Mesothelioma Resources
Beyond our Lubbock TX coverage, our firm handles mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestos exposure cases across the entire state of Texas from our Houston and Alvin offices.
- Texas Mesothelioma Lawyer (State Pillar)
- Houston Office — Ship Channel & Refinery Cases
- Alvin Office — Gulf Coast Industrial Corridor
- Past Settlement Results
- Mesothelioma Compensation Overview
- Asbestos Trust Fund Payments Guide
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Lubbock Mesothelioma Lawyer FAQ
Is there a deadline (statute of limitations) for asbestos claims in Lubbock, TX?
Yes. The Texas statute of limitations is strict, so don’t wait to speak with an attorney. The deadline is generally within two years of diagnosis or death. However, our firm has had success with filing asbestos claims even decades after exposure.
How much does a Lubbock asbestos attorney cost?
With Danziger & De Llano, there are no upfront costs or hourly fees to work with our Lubbock asbestos lawyers.
We work on a contingency fee basis, meaning we only get paid if we successfully recover compensation for you and your family.
How long does an asbestos claim take?
While we can’t guarantee an exact time for each case to be resolved, our clients usually start receiving compensation within 3 to 4 months of filing an asbestos or mesothelioma claim with us.
Do I have to sue or appear in court to receive compensation?
Not necessarily. Most asbestos and mesothelioma claims are resolved through trust funds, not lawsuits.
Can I sue for second-hand asbestos exposure in Lubbock?
Yes. Many of our successful mesothelioma claims stem from victims who were exposed to asbestos from their partner’s clothing.
Can I sue for asbestos-exposure after someone has died?
Yes. If a loved one has passed away from mesothelioma or an asbestos-related illness, we can help you file your claim and receive the compensation your family deserves.
What if I don’t remember exactly where I was exposed?
We’ll help investigate. We have records of common exposure sites in Lubbock and beyond.
Can I qualify if I worked in the military?
Yes. Many veterans qualify for compensation without affecting their VA benefits.
Will I have to travel to file a mesothelioma claim?
Our Texas mesothelioma attorneys travel to you, wherever and whenever it’s convenient for you. Whether it’s in the comfort of your home or in a location of your choosing, we’re hear to make this process as convenient and painless as possible for you.
While we can’t guarantee you won’t ever have to travel, it’s unlikely you will need to leave the area you live in to receive compensation.
What types of Lubbock workplaces are most associated with asbestos exposure?
Lubbock’s cottonseed oil mills, agricultural processing facilities, Permian Basin oil field operations, and commercial construction trades are the most documented asbestos-exposure environments in the South Plains area. Workers in cotton and grain processing facilities who maintained steam systems and boilers, oilfield workers who traveled to West Texas drilling and pipeline sites, and construction tradesmen who built Lubbock’s mid-century commercial growth all faced meaningful asbestos exposure. Many Lubbock residents with exposure histories from earlier careers in other industries may only now be receiving mesothelioma diagnoses given the disease’s long latency. A free case review will cover your full exposure history and assess all available compensation sources.