San Antonio 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 San Antonio Office
Danziger & De Llano Mesothelioma Law Firm
4241 Woodcock Dr C242, San Antonio, TX 78228
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One of the Nation's Top Asbestos & Mesothelioma Law Firms Serving San Antonio
The reasons why so many San Antonio 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 San Antonio Workers and Families Are at Risk for Asbestos-Related Disease
San Antonio has long served as a major military logistics hub, utility center, aerospace depot, and commercial engine for South Texas. From the 1930s through the late 1980s, San Antonio’s extensive military installations—most notably Kelly Air Force Base, Fort Sam Houston, Randolph, and Lackland—alongside municipal power plants, cement manufacturing facilities, commercial breweries, rail yards, and building construction projects relied heavily on asbestos. The toxic mineral was widely used for pipe insulation, boiler systems, thermal gaskets, valve packing, aircraft and heavy equipment brake linings, vessel insulation, and structural fireproofing. Federal and state records document numerous military maintenance facilities, industrial plants, and commercial sites throughout the San Antonio area where workers were routinely exposed to airborne asbestos fibers during daily operations, equipment servicing, and structural renovations.
The trades hit hardest in San Antonio’s defense, municipal, and commercial workforce include aircraft mechanics, military civilian maintenance staff, power plant operators, cement plant workers, pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, welders, machinists, electricians, sheet metal workers, HVAC technicians, and construction laborers. Many San Antonio workers spent careers moving between military maintenance depots, utility stations, manufacturing facilities, and commercial job sites—meaning a single worker’s exposure history often spans multiple employers, multiple decades, and a wide variety of asbestos-containing products. Maintenance and overhaul crews faced especially intense exposure during scheduled facility turnarounds, aircraft servicing, boiler overhauls, and building retrofits, when thermal insulation was stripped, high-heat equipment was repacked, and asbestos-laden gaskets and friction materials were scraped out and replaced.
Asbestos exposure does not stop at the base gate or job site perimeter. Spouses, children, and other household members of San Antonio maintenance and industrial personnel have developed mesothelioma and other severe asbestos-related diseases decades after secondary exposure—microscopic fibers carried home on dusty work clothing, footwear, hair, and inside family vehicles. Two of the largest individual settlements our firm has secured involved this exact pattern: industrial and maintenance workers’ family members who were never employed in the industry themselves.
Real Case Study
Marcos' Story
Marcos, a 55-year-old municipal utility coordinator, spent years replacing aging asbestos-wrapped water and air-conditioning pipes for a regional water authority before his mesothelioma diagnosis in 2023. What began as a persistent cough was initially misdiagnosed before doctors found fluid around his lung. He is now undergoing immunotherapy with the support of his partner and children.
$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 Texas families. 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.
Client Reviews
Even if your loved one has passed away we can recover significant compensation for your family.
Meet Our Nationally Recognized, Award Winning Mesothelioma Lawyers
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.
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.
Local Overview & Historical Context
In northwest San Antonio near the South Texas Medical Center, a 900-acre concentration of hospitals, medical schools, and research institutions that grew out of a 1947 San Antonio Chamber of Commerce initiative aimed at increasing the city’s hospital capacity. That effort ultimately produced the University of Texas Medical School, which opened in 1968 on 220 acres of donated land, alongside Bexar County Hospital (now University Hospital), which also opened its doors in December 1968 — the side-by-side construction of these two institutions is generally credited as the founding moment of the Medical Center district. Methodist Hospital followed as the district’s first dedicated hospital facility, and the Medical Center has continued expanding ever since, today encompassing twelve hospitals and forty-five medically related institutions.
This same stretch of northwest San Antonio, along the Fredericksburg Road and I-10 corridor, is also home to USAA’s national headquarters, founded in 1922 by a group of military officers to provide financial services to fellow servicemen — a major private-sector employer whose headquarters campus construction, like the Medical Center’s hospital towers, took place substantially during the same decades when asbestos was a standard American commercial-construction material.
Hospital & Institutional Construction Exposure
Hospital construction of the 1960s and 1970s — precisely the decades of the Medical Center’s founding and initial buildout — relied on asbestos throughout: boiler rooms, pipe insulation, floor tile, ceiling panels, and fireproofing spray were standard components of large institutional buildings during this era, and hospitals in particular required extensive steam and mechanical infrastructure for sterilization, heating, and laundry operations that made asbestos insulation especially prevalent in hospital boiler and mechanical rooms. Engineers, maintenance staff, and building trades who constructed or later serviced the Medical Center’s original 1960s-era hospital buildings — including the original Bexar County Hospital, the UT Medical School building, and Methodist Hospital’s earliest structures — faced routine occupational exposure consistent with the broader pattern documented in institutional and hospital construction nationwide.
The Medical Center’s continuous expansion in the decades since — more than $350 million in construction activity as of 2009 alone, with additional major projects following in subsequent years — has required recurring asbestos survey and abatement work as older 1960s and 1970s-era buildings within the district have been renovated, expanded, or replaced, a pattern typical of any large institutional campus built during the peak asbestos-use era and continuously modernized since.
As with USAA’s headquarters campus and the broader wave of northwest San Antonio commercial office and retail construction that followed the Medical Center’s growth, general commercial building trades — electricians, HVAC technicians, insulators, and general contractors — working in this corridor from the 1960s through the 1980s faced the same generic building-material asbestos exposure risk common to any American commercial construction boom of the period, independent of the Medical Center’s own institutional-scale mechanical systems.
Statistics, Current Regulatory Landscape & Litigation Context
Bexar County recorded an estimated 634 asbestos-related deaths between 1999 and 2017 according to EWG Action Fund’s analysis of CDC WONDER mortality data, an average of roughly 33 per year — reflecting San Antonio’s substantial mid-century institutional, commercial, and military construction history combined. While much of that toll is tied to San Antonio’s military installations, the city’s civilian hospital, medical education, and commercial-office construction sectors contributed their own independent and significant share of occupational exposure.
Because asbestos-related disease carries a latency period of roughly 20 to 50 years, tradesmen and maintenance staff who built or serviced the Medical Center’s original 1960s-era hospital and institutional buildings are only now, decades into retirement, 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 agency asking in June 2025 to pause litigation brought by the Texas Chemistry Council while it reconsiders certain provisions through new rulemaking. For the Medical Center specifically, the more immediately relevant regulatory framework remains AHERA and Texas DSHS requirements governing mandatory asbestos survey and abatement ahead of any renovation or demolition work on the district’s continuously modernizing hospital and institutional building stock.
Claims connected to this San Antonio address are typically filed in Bexar County district courts. As with other Texas institutional-construction asbestos claims, establishing a viable case generally requires identifying the specific building or hospital facility involved, the claimant’s trade and job duties, and the approximate time period of exposure, along with product identification tying that exposure to a specific manufacturer of the asbestos-containing insulation, tile, or fireproofing material at issue.
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 San Antonio, TX
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 San Antonio, TX
Below is a partial list of employers in San Antonio 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.
Kelly Air Force Base / San Antonio Air Logistics Center
(San Antonio Air Depot)
Military
Operated a military installation from 1917 to 2001, where the use of asbestos-containing materials is documented in public records.
Kelly Air Force Base, Building 184
(Oil Reclamation Building / Hazardous Storage Facility)
Military
Operated a military installation from 1931, where the use of asbestos-containing materials is documented in public records.
Southern Pacific Railroad San Antonio shops and roundhouse
Railroad
Operated a railroad operation from 1911 to 1912, where the use of asbestos-containing materials is documented in public records.
Alamo Cement Company / San Antonio Portland Cement Company
(Cementville)
Manufacturing
Operated a manufacturing plant from 1880. Facilities of this type and period routinely used asbestos-containing insulation on boilers, piping and other high-temperature equipment.
Brooks Air Force Base
Military
Operated a military installation from 1917 to 2011. Facilities of this type and period routinely used asbestos-containing insulation on boilers, piping and other high-temperature equipment.
Fort Sam Houston
Military
Operated a military installation from 1890. Facilities of this type and period routinely used asbestos-containing insulation on boilers, piping and other high-temperature equipment.
Lackland Air Force Base
(installation-wide, excluding Wilford Hall)
Military
Operated a military installation. Facilities of this type and period routinely used asbestos-containing insulation on boilers, piping and other high-temperature equipment.
Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base
Military
Operated a military installation. 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 San Antonio, 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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San Antonio Mesothelioma Lawyer FAQ
Is there a deadline (statute of limitations) for asbestos claims in San Antonio, 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 San Antonio asbestos attorney cost?
With Danziger & De Llano, there are no upfront costs or hourly fees to work with our San Antonio 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 San Antonio?
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 San Antonio 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.