Mesothelioma is a rare cancerous disease which is caused due to asbestos exposure. Nearly seventy to ninety percent of these patients diagnosed with this disease were exposed to asbestos fibers or asbestos dust, which was used in building materials and other products to serve as insulation, till the late 1980’s. In the past twenty years, the number of cases of patients diagnosed with the disease has significantly increased. This is primarily because it can take the symptoms of the disease from twenty to almost fifty years to show. These symptoms include shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing and a host of others. The disease affects the lining around the lungs and is extremely painful.

As the saying goes, "One man’s misery makes another man’s fortune". This is especially true for the Mesothelioma victims and their lawyers. The legal world has been taken on in frenzy. Currently, most Mesothelioma cases are being settled for no less than one million American dollars. That figure increases to at least five million more if the lawsuit goes to court and is heard in front of a jury. For such mammoth chunks of money to be made, all law firms and lawyers are hungry for a slice from the money-pie. In the process, the internet and its search engines are minting money as well.
How this works out, is very simple. When a person online, types in Mesothelioma in their search engines, the law firms that have bid the highest with the search engine, appear first on the list. This way, people looking for lawyers online are auctioned off to the highest bidding firm. Some firms are reported to pay up to a $100 for every visitor to their website to the World Wide Web. It is assumed that only ten percent of those visitors might actually submit their details for an enquiry with the firm and even a lesser number will actually become the firms’ future client. Thus calculations prove, that it costs law firms more than ten thousand dollars to secure the assurances of one of their client, this proves how much money they actually make in the long run.

This is truly a hideous thought, but it is only inevitable that in today’s world, even though victims of this cancerous disease are able to procure a million dollars or more, advertisers and Mesothelioma lawyers are hungry for their slice of the cake as well.