New Hampshire's heaviest industry sat at its far ends. Where the Piscataqua meets the sea, the Navy built and overhauled submarines; high up the Androscoggin and along the Connecticut, paper companies turned North Country spruce into pulp and paper; and in between, the Merrimack Valley's mill cities moved from cotton cloth to shoes, coated paper, and chemicals, with coal-fired power stations to run them. The boilers, kilns, turbines, and steam lines in all of these places were wrapped, lined, or sealed with asbestos. Sorted by region, the trusts' New Hampshire lists read like this:
- the Seacoast — the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the worksite most trusts recognize on the New Hampshire lists (the yard itself stands across the river in Kittery, Maine), Public Service Company of New Hampshire's Schiller Station, and Pease Air Force Base;
- the North Country paper towns — the Brown Company mills at Berlin, the Groveton paper mill, and Franconia Paper at Lincoln;
- the Merrimack Valley — PSNH's Merrimack Station at Bow, Manchester's shoe and textile manufacturers, and Nashua's Nashua Corporation and Hampshire Chemical plants;
- the Connecticut River valley — the Claremont Paper Mill and Ashuelot Paper at Claremont, and Dartmouth College at Hanover; and
- the Monadnock region — Monadnock Paper Mills at Bennington and the Diamond Match works at Keene.
Tanneries, woolen mills, hospitals, schools, and town wastewater plants fill in the rest of the lists.
When these companies went bankrupt, the trusts set up to pay their asbestos claims each published a list of locations where its products were proven to be present. For New Hampshire, those lists hold 277 entries across 60 communities, from 22 asbestos trusts. One plant can appear many times, under different names or on different trusts' lists.
Every asbestos trust claim has to prove two things: that a company's asbestos-containing product was present at a job site, and that the worker handled that product, or worked close enough to it, to breathe its dust. If you or your loved one worked at a site on those lists during the applicable years, the first half is already established, because the trust has acknowledged its products were there.
We help workers who are alive and recently diagnosed, adult children and spouses researching on behalf of someone who is sick, and families of workers who have already passed away from mesothelioma, lung cancer, or asbestosis. If you are a worker who has just been diagnosed, calling early keeps more options open for your family. There is still a claim to be made for families of workers who have already passed; we handle wrongful death cases routinely.
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New Hampshire filing deadlines and trust eligibility, in brief
New Hampshire gives a diagnosed worker three years to file a personal-injury claim. Exactly when the clock starts varies, so to be safe, count from the date of diagnosis. If an earlier X-ray, CT scan or screening showed asbestos-related scarring, a New Hampshire court may count the three years from that earlier finding, so call us right away. A separate deadline applies once a worker has passed away. If your loved one is alive and diagnosed, calling early keeps more options open.
New Hampshire deadlines, the wrongful-death rule, and how they apply to your family
Most workers exposed before 1983 can also file against the Johns-Manville Settlement Trust independently of anything documented at a specific site. How trust eligibility works.
We help families of workers who have already passed away. Wrongful death cases are a routine part of our practice.
Free family asbestos health screening. Our representation includes free asbestos health screening for family members of every client who may have been exposed at home through a worker's clothes, hair, or vehicle. The screening is a chest X-ray read by a B-reader, with a CT scan if needed; it looks for asbestos-related changes in the lungs and isn't a diagnosis or a reliable way to find mesothelioma early.
The sites profiled below show confirmed asbestos products based on the asbestos trusts established for companies that did business there. Those trusts exist because Clarence Borel, a Gulf Coast insulator, chose to sue in 1969 — not for himself, but because he realized his coworkers would die the same way he was dying. His decision created the legal framework that produced the trust system you're about to scan.
Today the choice is yours. You can file trust claims based on the documented exposure at your loved one's worksite — paper claims, no courtroom. Or you can follow Clarence Borel and also sue the manufacturers and premises owners directly, which allows us to build a full exposure profile for every site your loved one worked at and recover from defendants the trust system doesn't reach. Read his story.
Asbestos trust coverage across New Hampshire
The Johns-Manville Settlement Trust is open to most workers exposed before 1983, regardless of which specific worksite the exposure occurred at. Johns-Manville supplied so much asbestos and so many asbestos products across so many American industries that the trust does not require site-specific documentation. For mesothelioma claims, even one day of asbestos exposure before December 31, 1982 (at work or through a family member's work clothes brought into the home) can qualify a worker for Johns-Manville Settlement Trust compensation.
For lung cancer, asbestosis, and other non-mesothelioma asbestos diseases, the threshold is 60 months of total asbestos exposure with at least 6 months occurring before December 31, 1982. The one-day-of-exposure threshold for mesothelioma reflects how the disease actually develops (even brief exposure can cause it) and most major asbestos trusts apply similarly low-threshold eligibility for mesothelioma claims.
Because Johns-Manville keeps no site list of its own, every worksite on another trust's list also qualifies for Johns-Manville. Twenty-one other trusts list New Hampshire worksites. The number of New Hampshire entries on each trust's list:
- Johns-Manville: no list of its own; every site on the other trusts' lists qualifies
- Babcock & Wilcox: 107 entries (industrial and utility boilers)
- Owens Corning: 34 entries (Kaylo and high-temperature pipe and block insulation)
- Fibreboard: 25 entries (Pabco pipe and block insulation)
- Eagle-Picher: 22 entries (insulating cements and pipe covering)
- Combustion Engineering: 20 entries (boilers and refractory)
- W.R. Grace: 13 entries (Monokote spray fireproofing and Zonolite)
- DII Industries (Halliburton): 9 entries (pumps, compressors and oilfield equipment)
- A.P. Green: 8 entries (refractory brick, castables and cements)
- DII Industries (Harbison-Walker): 8 entries (refractory brick and castables)
- Owens-Illinois: 6 entries (Kaylo pipe and block insulation)
- Pittsburgh Corning: 4 entries (Unibestos pipe insulation)
- Plibrico: 4 entries (refractory plastics and castables)
- Armstrong World Industries: 3 entries (insulation contracting and floor products)
- Turner & Newall: 3 entries (Limpet sprayed asbestos and asbestos textiles)
- U.S. Gypsum: 3 entries (joint compound, plaster and acoustical products)
- ASARCO: 2 entries (asbestos mining and smelting)
- GAF: 2 entries (roofing and building products)
- ABB Lummus: 1 entry (refinery and petrochemical engineering)
- Burns & Roe: 1 entry (power-plant engineering and construction)
- Flexitallic: 1 entry (spiral-wound gaskets)
- Yarway: 1 entry (steam traps and valves)
Trust coverage at this depth means most New Hampshire workers with significant industrial exposure histories will trigger filings against multiple trusts simultaneously — typically Johns-Manville plus the site-specific trusts documented at their worksites.
New Hampshire cities and their industries
Open a city to see the worksites there that the asbestos trusts recognize, grouped by industry, with why each industry used asbestos.
PortsmouthPortsmouth looks across the Piscataqua River to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, which stands on Seavey Island in Kittery, Maine; the city itself held PSNH's Schiller Station, its older gas and electric plants, and Pease Air Force Base.
Power plants and utilities. Power plants' boilers, turbines, and high-pressure steam lines were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products, and every overhaul released dust across the plant.
- New Hampshire Gas & Electric generating station
- Public Service Company of New Hampshire — Schiller Station
Shipyards. Ships' boilers, engine rooms, and steam lines were insulated with asbestos, much of it to Navy specification, and shipyard workers in tight spaces breathed the dust whether or not they handled it themselves.
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Military installations. Military bases ran boiler plants, steam distribution systems, and aircraft and vehicle maintenance shops, and built and renovated for decades with asbestos-containing materials.
- Pease Air Force Base (Portsmouth Air Force Base)
ManchesterManchester grew around the Amoskeag textile mills on the Merrimack, which closed in 1935; the trusts list the city's shoe and textile manufacturers, Elliot Hospital, and Public Service Company of New Hampshire.
Paper mills and manufacturing plants. Paper mills, glass plants, lumber mills, and factories ran their own boilers and steam systems, insulated with asbestos pipe covering and sealed with asbestos gaskets. A paper mill's recovery boilers were among the most asbestos-intensive equipment anywhere.
- Textron, Incorporated
- W.H. McElwain shoe company
Public and commercial buildings. Office towers, hospitals, schools, hotels, and government buildings were built with asbestos fireproofing, insulation, plaster, and floor tile, exposing the trades who built and renovated them and the maintenance crews who kept their boilers and steam lines running.
- Elliot Hospital
ClaremontClaremont, on the Sugar River near the Connecticut, had two paper mills on the trusts' lists: the Claremont Paper Mill, a division of Bemis Bro. Bag, and Ashuelot Paper.
Paper mills and manufacturing plants. Paper mills, glass plants, lumber mills, and factories ran their own boilers and steam systems, insulated with asbestos pipe covering and sealed with asbestos gaskets. A paper mill's recovery boilers were among the most asbestos-intensive equipment anywhere.
- Ashuelot Paper Company, Inc.
- Claremont Paper Mill (Bemis Bro. Bag)
NashuaNashua, an old textile city where the Nashua River meets the Merrimack, later made coated paper at the Nashua Corporation and chemicals at W.R. Grace's Hampshire Chemical plant.
Chemical plants. Chemical plants combined high heat with corrosive service: furnaces and reactors lined with asbestos refractory, steam lines wrapped in asbestos insulation, and acid-resistant asbestos gaskets and packing at every flange.
- Hampshire Chemical (W.R. Grace)
Paper mills and manufacturing plants. Paper mills, glass plants, lumber mills, and factories ran their own boilers and steam systems, insulated with asbestos pipe covering and sealed with asbestos gaskets. A paper mill's recovery boilers were among the most asbestos-intensive equipment anywhere.
- Nashua Corporation
NewingtonNewington, on the Piscataqua just upriver from Portsmouth, is home to PSNH's Newington Station and the Simplex Wire & Cable plant.
Paper mills and manufacturing plants. Paper mills, glass plants, lumber mills, and factories ran their own boilers and steam systems, insulated with asbestos pipe covering and sealed with asbestos gaskets. A paper mill's recovery boilers were among the most asbestos-intensive equipment anywhere.
- Simplex Wire & Cable
Power plants and utilities. Power plants' boilers, turbines, and high-pressure steam lines were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products, and every overhaul released dust across the plant.
- Public Service Company of New Hampshire — Newington Station
BerlinBerlin, on the Androscoggin, was a company town for the Brown Company, called the Berlin Mills Company until 1917, whose pulp and paper mills dominated the North Country.
Paper mills and manufacturing plants. Paper mills, glass plants, lumber mills, and factories ran their own boilers and steam systems, insulated with asbestos pipe covering and sealed with asbestos gaskets. A paper mill's recovery boilers were among the most asbestos-intensive equipment anywhere.
- Brown Company paper mills (Berlin Mills, James River)
BowBow is home to PSNH's coal-fired Merrimack Station on the Merrimack River, whose first unit went into service in 1960.
Power plants and utilities. Power plants' boilers, turbines, and high-pressure steam lines were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products, and every overhaul released dust across the plant.
- Public Service Company of New Hampshire — Merrimack Station
Other New Hampshire communitiesOne worksite each in 11 more communities.
Paper mills and manufacturing plants. Paper mills, glass plants, lumber mills, and factories ran their own boilers and steam systems, insulated with asbestos pipe covering and sealed with asbestos gaskets. A paper mill's recovery boilers were among the most asbestos-intensive equipment anywhere.
- Brezner Tanning Corporation — Penacook
- Franconia Paper Corporation mill — Lincoln
- General Electric Somersworth plant — Somersworth
- Groveton Paper mill (Diamond International, Wausau) — Groveton
- Hoague-Sprague Davis Boxboard mill — West Hopkinton
- Monadnock Paper Mills — Bennington
- Spaulding Fibre Company — North Rochester
Food plants, breweries, and sugar mills. Sugar mills, breweries, corn and flour mills, and packing houses ran on steam: boilers, cookers, evaporators, and dryers, with miles of insulated pipe, all built with asbestos insulation, gaskets, and packing.
- Anheuser Busch, Incorporated — Merrimack
Tire and synthetic-rubber plants. Synthetic-rubber and tire plants ran boilers, steam lines, and steam-heated presses and curing equipment insulated and sealed with asbestos.
- Davidson Rubber Company — Dover
Public and commercial buildings. Office towers, hospitals, schools, hotels, and government buildings were built with asbestos fireproofing, insulation, plaster, and floor tile, exposing the trades who built and renovated them and the maintenance crews who kept their boilers and steam lines running.
- Dartmouth College — Hanover
Power plants and utilities. Power plants' boilers, turbines, and high-pressure steam lines were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products, and every overhaul released dust across the plant.
- Seabrook Station nuclear power plant — Seabrook
Mesothelioma settlement values at New Hampshire's most-documented worksites
These worksites appear on the approved-site lists of at least two trusts besides Johns-Manville. Trust counts are minimums: a trust may list a site under a name we haven't yet matched to it. The years are the exposure window the trusts' lists recognize at each site; most lists end at 1982.
Open a worksite to see each trust that lists it, with the mesothelioma values the trust publishes and its current payment percentage. "Trust values together" adds up those trusts' values at their payment percentages: the low figure uses each trust's scheduled value, the high figure each trust's published maximum, which Individual Review can reach. Most mesothelioma claims are paid above the scheduled value. But each trust sets its own eligibility rules — the years, the work, and the length of exposure it requires — so few people qualify for every trust on a list, some trusts publish no fixed schedule, and these figures are not a prediction of any recovery. All trust values and payment percentages.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Flexitallic | $50,000 – $150,000 | 2.9% | $1,450 – $4,350 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| U.S. Gypsum | $155,000 – $450,000 | 10% | $15,500 – $45,000 |
| Yarway | $55,000 – $150,000 | 27.5% | $15,125 – $41,250 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Brown Company paper mills (Berlin Mills, James River)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| ASARCO | $170,000 – $900,000 | 35% | $59,500 – $315,000 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Public Service Company of New Hampshire — Merrimack Station
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| U.S. Gypsum | $155,000 – $450,000 | 10% | $15,500 – $45,000 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Groveton Paper mill (Diamond International, Wausau)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| DII Industries (Harbison-Walker) | $144,897.50 – $610,000 | 60% | $86,938.50 – $366,000 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Dartmouth College
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| Plibrico | $350,000 – $750,000 | 0.94% | $3,290 – $7,050 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Public Service Company of New Hampshire — Schiller Station
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong World Industries | $110,000 – $400,000 | 7.8% | $8,580 – $31,200 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Claremont Paper Mill (Bemis Bro. Bag)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Franconia Paper Corporation mill
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Brezner Tanning Corporation
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Pease Air Force Base (Portsmouth Air Force Base)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Seabrook Station nuclear power plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Hoague-Sprague Davis Boxboard mill
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong World Industries | $110,000 – $400,000 | 7.8% | $8,580 – $31,200 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Ashuelot Paper Company, Inc.
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
St. Paul's School
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Davidson Rubber Company
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armstrong World Industries | $110,000 – $400,000 | 7.8% | $8,580 – $31,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
White Washburne Co
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Elliot Hospital
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Public Service Company of New Hampshire
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Textron, Incorporated
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Keasbey & Mattison
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Anheuser Busch, Incorporated
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Nashua Corporation
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
FAA Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Hampshire Chemical (W.R. Grace)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Nashua Corporation
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Simplex Wire & Cable
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Newport Electric Light Company
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Spaulding Fibre Company
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
National Gypsum Co
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| DII Industries (Harbison-Walker) | $144,897.50 – $610,000 | 60% | $86,938.50 – $366,000 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
New Hampshire Gas & Electric generating station
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABB Lummus | $1,000 – $400,000 | 9.5% | $95 – $38,000 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Quinn-T Corporation
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASARCO | $170,000 – $900,000 | 35% | $59,500 – $315,000 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
City of Lebanon wastewater plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
A closer look at major New Hampshire worksites
The worksites below are recognized by the most asbestos trusts in New Hampshire — five or more, counting Johns-Manville — together with the Claremont Paper Mill. Each profile draws on the trust signatures present at the site to identify the products workers handled, the trades most heavily exposed, and the asbestos types they likely encountered. Your specific worksite may be documented even if it doesn't appear here — call us.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard — Portsmouth
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, established in 1800, is the oldest continuously operating shipyard of the U.S. Navy. The trusts file it under Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but the yard stands on Seavey Island in Kittery, Maine, across the Piscataqua River; much of its workforce has always lived on the New Hampshire side. It built submarines through the Second World War and the Cold War, among them the experimental USS Albacore, and remains a Navy submarine overhaul yard. The trusts list it as the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and the U.S. Navy Yard, with separate entries for Buildings 80 and 178; it is one facility. Our Maine page profiles the yard as well.
Workers exposed. Naval shipyard work of this scale required pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, machinists, welders, electricians, sheet-metal workers, carpenters, and riggers. Insulators were the most heavily exposed trade — they cut, fitted, and removed pipe insulation across submarine engine rooms, auxiliary machinery spaces, and steam piping runs. Pipefitters and machinists generated bystander exposure throughout the shipyard's submarine construction and overhaul cycles.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 11 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Flexitallic, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh Corning, U.S. Gypsum, Yarway, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1900 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Navy specifications called for amosite (brown asbestos) in high-temperature shipboard insulation. Pittsburgh Corning's amosite-rich Unibestos covered the hottest steam service, and because the Owens-Illinois trust signature is present, Owens-Illinois Kaylo high-temperature pipe insulation, an amosite product, was used at this site during the 1948–1958 manufacturing window, with Owens Corning continuing the Kaylo line afterward; Fibreboard pipe and block insulation covered more steam, propulsion, and auxiliary piping. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers carried insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing; Flexitallic spiral-wound gaskets sealed high-pressure valves and flanges, and Yarway steam traps and valves carried asbestos packing. Eagle-Picher insulating cement finished valve bonnets, fittings, and pipe terminations, and U.S. Gypsum supplied joint compound and gypsum products for the yard's buildings. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories, and crocidolite (blue asbestos) appeared in some shipboard gaskets and packing.
Brown Company paper mills (Berlin Mills, James River) — Berlin
The Brown Company's mills on the Androscoggin made Berlin the industrial center of New Hampshire's North Country, and for most of the twentieth century the company was the dominant industrial employer in Coös County. It began as the Berlin Mills Company and took the Brown name in 1917. Its operations included the Burgess pulp mill in Berlin and the Cascade paper mill just downriver in Gorham, and the mills later passed to James River Corporation and other owners. The trusts list them under Brown Company, Brown Paper, Berlin Mills, the Burgess and Cascade mills, and James River; we count them as one site. Other Berlin entries, such as Crown Zellerbach and International Paper, are listed separately.
Workers exposed. Pulp-and-paper operations of this scale required boilermakers (recovery boilers and power boilers), pipefitters, insulators, refractory workers, millwrights, mechanics, and electricians.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 9 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, ASARCO, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1917 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green refractory brick and cement lined the lime kilns and recovery boiler furnaces, and Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers carried pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing on access doors and steam connections. Because the Owens-Illinois trust signature is present, Owens-Illinois Kaylo high-temperature pipe insulation, an amosite (brown asbestos) product, was used at this site during the 1948–1958 manufacturing window, with Owens Corning continuing the Kaylo line afterward; Fibreboard pipe insulation and Eagle-Picher insulating cement covered more of the steam distribution piping and paper machine equipment. The ASARCO signature reflects raw asbestos fiber in the supply chain, most often reaching a mill through packing, gaskets, and other industrial products. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories, and crocidolite (blue asbestos) appeared in gaskets and packing in the mill's acid and high-temperature service.
Public Service Company of New Hampshire — Merrimack Station — Bow
Merrimack Station is Public Service Company of New Hampshire's coal-fired generating plant on the Merrimack River in Bow. Its first unit entered service in 1960 and a second followed in 1968. PSNH became part of Northeast Utilities, now Eversource, in 1992, and the station was sold in 2018. The trusts list it under PSNH, Merrimack Station and its individual units, and the Bow power plant; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Coal-fired utility power generation required boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, refractory workers, mechanics, electricians, and turbine maintenance staff. Insulation removal and replacement during major boiler overhauls produced the highest-intensity exposure events.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 5 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, U.S. Gypsum, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1957 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. The Babcock & Wilcox signature reflects the station's boilers, with their pipe and block insulation, insulating cement, refractory, and gaskets and packing. Owens Corning's Kaylo line and Fibreboard pipe and block insulation, their high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), covered the steam and turbine piping, and U.S. Gypsum supplied joint compound and gypsum products for the plant's buildings. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Public Service Company of New Hampshire — Schiller Station — Portsmouth
Schiller Station, a coal- and oil-fired generating plant on the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth, supplied the Seacoast's electricity for most of the second half of the twentieth century. The trusts list it under PSNH, Schiller Station, and the Schiller Station powerhouse, some entries filed under neighboring Newington; it is one facility. PSNH's Newington Station, upriver, is listed separately.
Workers exposed. Boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, refractory workers, mechanics, electricians, and power plant operators, along with the construction and overhaul crews.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 5 asbestos trusts — Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, Fibreboard, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1948 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. The Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering signatures reflect the station's boilers, with their pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing, and the Armstrong signature points to insulation contracting crews at the plant. Fibreboard pipe and block insulation, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), covered the steam and turbine piping. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Groveton Paper mill (Diamond International, Wausau) — Groveton
The Groveton paper mill stood in Groveton, a village of Northumberland in Coös County near the Connecticut River. Groveton Papers Company was a subsidiary of Diamond International in the mid-twentieth century, and Wausau Paper later ran the mill. The trusts list it under Groveton Paper, Groveton Paper Board, the Diamond International subsidiary, and Wausau Paper; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Paper mill operations required boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, refractory workers, millwrights, mechanics, and electricians across the pulping, paper machine, and power house departments.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 5 asbestos trusts — Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Harbison-Walker), Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1948 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Combustion Engineering boilers carried pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing, and Harbison-Walker refractory brick and castables lined the boiler furnaces and kilns. Fibreboard pipe and block insulation, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), and Eagle-Picher insulating cement covered the steam piping, dryer sections, and fittings. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Dartmouth College — Hanover
Dartmouth College, founded in 1769, has stood in Hanover, above the Connecticut River, since its founding. A central heating plant sends steam across the campus through underground lines, and the trusts' entries include the college's steam trench and its Basic Science Building.
Workers exposed. Heating plant operators, pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and maintenance crews, along with the construction and renovation trades — ironworkers, electricians, carpenters, and sheet-metal workers — who built and rebuilt the campus.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 5 asbestos trusts — Combustion Engineering, Pittsburgh Corning, Plibrico, W.R. Grace, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1953 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Combustion Engineering boilers in the heating plant carried pipe and block insulation and gaskets and packing, and Plibrico refractory plastics and castables lined their fireboxes. Pittsburgh Corning's Unibestos, made with amosite (brown asbestos), insulated the steam lines in the campus steam trench, and W.R. Grace Monokote spray fireproofing coated structural steel in the Basic Science Building. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Claremont Paper Mill (Bemis Bro. Bag) — Claremont
The Claremont Paper Mill was a mainstay of the Sullivan County paper industry on the Sugar River; the trusts list it as a paper mill division of the Bemis Bro. Bag Company, as well as under Claremont Paper Mill and Claremont Paper Company. It is one facility. Ashuelot Paper, also in Claremont, is listed separately.
Workers exposed. Paper mill operations required boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, millwrights, refractory workers, and mechanics. Insulators were the most heavily exposed trade across the paper machine, dryer cans, and steam distribution piping.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 4 asbestos trusts — Eagle-Picher, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1954 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Because the Owens-Illinois trust signature is present, Owens-Illinois Kaylo high-temperature pipe insulation, an amosite (brown asbestos) product, was used at this site during the 1948–1958 manufacturing window; Owens Corning continued the Kaylo line of pipe and block insulation after Owens-Illinois left the business in 1958. Eagle-Picher One-Cote insulating cement was used on irregular fittings, valve bonnets, and pipe terminations across the paper machine and steam systems. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
New Hampshire entries by city
The trusts' lists hold New Hampshire entries in 60 communities. Open the list below for the number of entries in each. Call us for any specific worksite — whether or not the city appears here.
Entries on the trusts' lists, city by city
| City | Entries on the trusts' lists |
|---|---|
| Portsmouth | 39 |
| Manchester | 30 |
| Berlin | 28 |
| Nashua | 18 |
| Concord | 15 |
| Bow | 13 |
| Claremont | 10 |
| Dover | 7 |
| Keene | 6 |
| Laconia | 6 |
| Newington | 6 |
| West Hopkinton | 6 |
| Groveton | 5 |
| Hanover | 5 |
| Merrimack | 5 |
| Tilton | 5 |
| Lincoln | 4 |
| Penacook | 4 |
| Seabrook | 4 |
| Bennington | 3 |
| Durham | 3 |
| Goffstown | 3 |
| Gorham | 3 |
| Winchester | 3 |
Entries are also listed in Bradford, Bretton Woods, Charlestown, Derry, Enfield, Exeter, Georges, Gilmanton, Greenfield, Hampton, Hinsdale, Hooksett, Lisbon, Madbury, Marlow, Meredith, Milford, Milton, Newfields, Newmarket, Newport, North Hampton, North Rochester, Northumberland, Plymouth, Rochester, Rye, Salem, Somersworth, Suncook, Troy, Warner, Warren, West Lebanon, Whitefield and Woodstock.
Search the asbestos trusts' New Hampshire lists
Type any name the plant went by — the company, a later owner, or the city — to see every entry on the trusts' lists that matches, as the trusts wrote it, with each trust and the years it lists.
277 entries, as the trusts list them.
Worksites named in court opinions
Court decisions in our library name these New Hampshire workplaces as places where people were exposed to asbestos.
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
- Unger v. AW Chesterton Co. (2022): Worked with Watts valves, 1977-1997
- Unger v. AW Chesterton Co. (2021): 1977 to 1997
New Hampshire Medical Center
- Unger v. AW Chesterton Co. (2022): Worked with Watts valves, 1977-1997
Every worksite named in New Hampshire court decisions, with all their decisions
Plants that made asbestos products
Companies' sworn answers in asbestos lawsuits, the asbestos industry's trade journal and company records in our library name these New Hampshire plants as places where asbestos products were made. Each plant's page says who ran it and when, what was made there, and which document says so. People who worked in these plants, their families, and people who lived nearby may have been exposed.
- MeredithKeasbey & Mattison, American Asbestos Textile Corporation · from 1951
- NashuaJohns-Manville · 1907–1985 · 43 products
- PortsmouthPhilip Carey Company · from 1935
- TiltonJohns-Manville · 1948–1976 · 12 products
Don't see your worksite?
Your worksite may be documented even if it doesn't appear on this page. If your loved one worked at a New Hampshire facility not listed, call us. Johns-Manville requires no site list at all, and we can often document exposure through the products, contractors, and equipment at a site even when no trust lists it by name.
Smaller worksites, contract jobs, short-tenure employment, and exposures across multiple sites are all part of the case-building process.
Call 833-4-ASBESTOS to confirm coverage for your specific New Hampshire worksite.
How a New Hampshire case may work
Thomas is a 74-year-old retired pipefitter from Portsmouth. From 1970 to 2005 he worked at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, primarily on submarine overhaul. His work involved daily contact with high-temperature pipe insulation in submarine engine rooms and auxiliary machinery spaces, removing and replacing gaskets and pump packing on hundreds of valves and pumps over his career, and bystander exposure to the insulators stripping and reinsulating piping during major overhauls. He handled Unibestos amosite-rich pipe insulation, legacy Kaylo block insulation, Flexitallic spiral-wound marine gaskets, and Eagle-Picher insulating cement on irregular fittings. He was rarely warned about the hazards and never given respiratory protection adequate for the airborne fiber levels his work generated. Thomas retired in 2005 and stayed in Portsmouth. In early 2026 he developed shortness of breath and pleural effusion; pathology returned a diagnosis of pleural mesothelioma of the sarcomatoid mesothelioma histology.
For Thomas's family, the case has several parallel tracks. Because his career spanned the pre-1983 period and involved decades of asbestos handling, he qualifies for the Johns-Manville Settlement Trust under its one-day-of-exposure threshold for mesothelioma — that filing proceeds independently of any site-specific documentation. The shipyard is recognized by at least ten other asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Flexitallic, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh Corning, U.S. Gypsum, and Yarway — and those whose eligibility rules his work history meets support additional filings. As a civilian employee of the Navy, Thomas is covered by the Federal Employees' Compensation Act; FECA is his only remedy against the Navy, and if a lawsuit recovers money, FECA takes a refund out of it. A civil case against the still-solvent manufacturers whose products were at the shipyard rounds out the recovery picture. Our representation includes free asbestos health screening for Thomas's wife and adult children, who lived in households where his contaminated work clothes came home for years. Recoveries from cases like Thomas's routinely fund what insurance does not cover — travel to academic cancer centers, lodging during extended treatment, out-of-pocket medication costs, and home help. The nearest NCI-designated cancer center for a Seacoast worker is the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center in Boston, where advanced treatments including lung-sparing pleural surgery and the latest immunotherapy combinations are available; the Dartmouth Cancer Center at Lebanon is also NCI-designated and is the closest in-state option. When the written agreement and applicable law permit it, our firm can also advance the cost of travel and lodging when getting to the right treatment center matters. How legal recovery funds mesothelioma treatment access →.
For the full doctrinal treatment of New Hampshire's discovery rule, comparative fault framework, premises liability standard, and damages framework, see the New Hampshire mesothelioma law guide.
This example is general. Every case depends on the diagnosis, exposure history, dates, defendants, applicable law, and available evidence.
What happens when you call
A staff attorney answers — not a screener. The first call usually runs 20 to 30 minutes. We listen to the work history, identify which New Hampshire worksites and trust channels apply to your loved one's exposure, and explain the timeline and case structure for your family's specific situation.
We never pressure anyone to retain us during the first call. If you decide to move forward, we come to you — phone, video, or home visit, whichever works best. No travel to our offices is required at any point in the case.
You do not need to come to the call with product names, exposure dates, or work records. We reconstruct the exposure history using our worksite database, the trust documentation for each manufacturer, employment and union records, and coworker interviews. The conversation starts with what you remember; we handle the documentation work from there.
A spouse, adult child, or other family member can call for the worker. Many of our first calls are from a daughter or wife researching on behalf of a parent or husband. That is standard, and the family member can make the call without the worker on the line.
Call 833-4-ASBESTOS for a free case review.
Why families choose our firm
- $400M+ recovered for asbestos clients; 200,000+ verified exposure sites nationally; all 277 New Hampshire entries on the asbestos trusts' lists
- Worksite-specific knowledge — we operate from documented trust coverage rather than from generic intake scripts; we can speak to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the Berlin paper mills, PSNH's power stations, and the Merrimack Valley's manufacturers on the first call
- Trust filings, civil cases, and federal benefits (FECA for federal civilian workers, LHWCA for private shipyard workers, VA for Navy and Air Force veterans) coordinated case by case
- Remote case handling — phone, video, home visit; no travel to our offices required
- Free asbestos health screening for family members of every client
- No fee unless we recover compensation for your family
Frequently asked questions
Is my New Hampshire worksite documented?
Probably yes. The asbestos trusts' approved-site lists hold 277 New Hampshire entries in 60 communities — paper mills, power stations, the Navy yard and Pease Air Force Base, shoe and textile mills, chemical plants, hospitals, schools, and a wide range of smaller industrial and commercial operations across the state. You can search every entry on this page. Even if a specific facility isn't listed, we can often document exposure there through the products and contractors involved. Call us with the worksite name and we can confirm coverage during the first conversation.
What does "trust coverage" mean for my case?
Asbestos trust coverage means a manufacturer's bankruptcy trust has paid claims for exposure at that specific worksite, or that the trust signature at the site supports an inference about which of that manufacturer's products were used there. Trust claims are paid from the bankruptcy trust funds set up when the manufacturers went bankrupt — they don't require litigation or a court appearance. Most cases support filings against multiple trusts at once.
Does my loved one qualify for the Johns-Manville trust?
Probably yes, if your loved one had asbestos exposure before 1983 and developed an asbestos-related disease. Johns-Manville does not require proof that its products were at a specific worksite, and for mesothelioma even one day of exposure can qualify. How Johns-Manville eligibility works.
Do I need to know which asbestos products my loved one handled?
No. We reconstruct the product-handling history using the trusts' site lists, the trust documentation for each manufacturer present at the site, employment records, union records, and coworker interviews. Most families come to us with the worksite name and general job description — that's enough to start.
What if my loved one worked at multiple New Hampshire sites?
That is the normal pattern, not the exception. Many New Hampshire workers built careers across the shipyard, the paper mills, and the utilities, or across several of the Merrimack Valley's manufacturers. We build a complete career-spanning exposure profile and file every applicable trust claim and civil action.
What if my loved one worked at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard?
The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is recognized by at least 11 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Flexitallic, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh Corning, U.S. Gypsum, Yarway, and Johns-Manville — more than any other worksite on the New Hampshire lists. The trusts file it under Portsmouth, though the yard stands on Seavey Island in Kittery, Maine. Federal civilian employees at the yard are covered by the Federal Employees' Compensation Act; workers employed by private contractors may be covered by the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act; Navy personnel may be eligible for VA service-connected disability — available with proof of in-service asbestos exposure and a doctor's opinion linking it to service. None of these federal programs offset trust filings or civil case recovery.
What if my loved one's worksite has closed or been demolished?
It doesn't matter for the claim. Trust filings are based on what the manufacturer's products did at the site decades ago, not on whether the facility is still standing. The Berlin pulp mill, the Groveton paper mill, and Pease Air Force Base have all closed, and their workers can still file.
Can we file a claim if my loved one already passed away?
Yes. Wrongful death cases are a routine part of our practice. New Hampshire allows the family to pursue the case the worker could have brought, plus the family's own wrongful death damages, within the applicable statute of limitations. Call us with the date of death and the basic work history — we can explain the timing on the first call.
Talk with a New Hampshire asbestos lawyer
Whether your family is dealing with a new diagnosis, a very sick loved one, or a death from mesothelioma, we are ready to help. Your loved one's worksite may already be on the trusts' lists — or we can help document it if it isn't.
You do not need to know the product names. You do not need to have all the records. You do not need to travel to our office. A spouse or adult child can call for the family.
Related resources
This page is provided for general informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. Every asbestos case turns on its own facts, exposure history, diagnosis, deadlines, available evidence, and applicable law. Reviewing this page does not create an attorney-client relationship. For advice about your specific situation, call 833-4-ASBESTOS for a free case review.