Asbestos / Mesothelioma Statistics in Long Beach
~70
Annual Mesothelioma Diagnoses (Long Beach/LA South Bay)
2 years
SOL from Diagnosis
Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Port of Long Beach, Signal Hill oil, ARCO refinery
Key Exposure Industries
Los Angeles County Superior Court (Long Beach Courthouse)
Primary Litigation Venue
Courts in Long Beach, California
Los Angeles County Superior Court — Long Beach Courthouse
415 W Ocean Blvd, Long Beach, CA 90802
Hospitals & Trauma Centers in Long Beach
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center — Cancer Services
2801 Atlantic Ave, Long Beach, CA 90806
UCLA Health — Harbor-UCLA Medical Center — Thoracic Surgery
1000 W Carson St, Torrance, CA 90509
Liability Considerations in Long Beach
Long Beach Naval Shipyard and Port Asbestos Exposure
The Long Beach Naval Shipyard — which operated from 1944 until its 1997 closure under BRAC — maintained and overhauled Pacific Fleet surface combatants and aircraft carriers. Thousands of civilian workers and Navy personnel at the shipyard were exposed to asbestos pipe insulation, turbine insulation, boiler room materials, and deck coverings during ship maintenance operations. The Port of Long Beach's longshoremen worked aboard cargo and tanker vessels whose holds and engine rooms contained asbestos insulation, and ship repair crews at the port's marine railways performed maintenance on asbestos-insulated vessels. ARCO's Carson refinery (now Phillips 66) maintained miles of asbestos-insulated process piping maintained by pipefitters and boilermakers with significant cumulative exposure.
Your Legal Team
Linda Nakamura
Partner
San Francisco, CA
Linda Nakamura is one of California's leading mesothelioma attorneys, with a particular focus on Navy veteran cases and complex multi-defendant litigation in the Northern District of California's active asbestos docket. Over 22 years, she has represented over 800 mesothelioma families, developing deep expertise in trust fund portfolio maximization — identifying all applicable trusts, optimizing claim sequencing, and coordinating trust fund distributions with civil settlements to maximize total family recovery. Linda has been recognized by the San Francisco Examiner as one of the Bay Area's top plaintiffs' attorneys and is a regular panelist at the American Association for Justice annual convention's toxic tort track. Her technical knowledge of shipbuilding history, Navy vessel specifications, and industrial insulation products enables her to reconstruct exposure histories with exceptional precision.
Education
- J.D., UC Berkeley School of Law, Boalt Hall (2004)
- B.A., Political Science, Stanford University (2001)