Charleston, West Virginia – A Greenup (Kentucky) woman has filed a lawsuit against 49 businesses that she believes are accountable for the lung cancer and eventual death of her husband.
The suit was filed by Mary Davis in Kanawha County Circuit Court. She says her husband Mr. Jack C Davis developed asbestos-related lung cancer and died from the disease a few months after the cancer diagnosis. According to Mary Davis, her husband had been exposed to asbestos as well as asbestos-containing products routinely while working as a carpenter and laborer. She believes his lung cancer was caused by this occupational asbestos exposure.
According to the complaint, the defendant companies negligently failed to warn the plaintiff’s husband of the hazards of asbestos, a naturally occurring mineral known to cause fatal diseases including cancer. Until the 1980s, asbestos was popular ingredient in numerous construction and other industrial products.
While working around dangerous asbestos products, Jack Davis was never warned about the risks or provided with enough safety apparel, the complaint says.
Mary Davis accuses the companies of: negligence; breach of implied and expressed warranties; contaminated buildings; intentional tort; strict liability; fraudulent misrepresentation; conspiracy; post-sale duty to warn; and failing to provide workers with essential protective equipment.
Mary Davis seeks a jury trial for fixing the issues involved in the case. A visiting judge has been assigned the case.
Mary Davis names the following businesses as defendants:
A.W. Chesterton Co; A.K. Steel Corp; Bucyrus International Incorporated; Amdura Corporation; Caterpillar Incorporated; Clark Equipment Co; Cleaver-Brooks Co Incorporated; Columbus McKinnon Corp; Crane Company; Dravo Corp; Eaton Electrical Incorporated; Flowserve FSD Corp; Flowserve US Incorporated; FMC Corp; Foster Wheeler Energy Corp; Foseco Incorporated; General Electric Co; Goulds Pumps Incorporated; Georgia Pacific Corp; IMO Industries Incorporated; Industrial Holdings Corp; Ingersoll-Rand Co; Insul Company; ITT Corp; Morgan Engineering Incorporated; McJunkin Red Man Corp; NACCO Materials Handling Group Incorporated; Nitro Industrial Covering Incorporated; Nagle Pumps; Oglebay Norton Co; Ohio Valley Insulating Co Incorporated; Traverse Lift; Premier Refractories Incorporated; Rapid American Corp; Riley Power Incorporated; Rust Constructors Incorporated; Rust Engineering and Construction Incorporated; Rust International Incorporated; Schneider Electric USA; State Electric Supply Co; Sterling Fluid Systems LLC; The F.D. Lawrence Electric Co; Tasco Insulations Incorporated; UB WV Incorporated; United Engineers and Constructors; Viacom Incorporated; Vimasco Corp; Yale Materials Handling; and WV State Electric Supply Co.
