Charleston, West Virginia – A man is suing a number of U.S. corporations over his malignant mesothelioma diagnosis.
Jerry Henderson, of Colorado Springs, has filed a suit against 138 businesses he believes are responsible for his fatal cancer. The suit was filed in the circuit court of Kanawha County on 6th September. According to the suit, the plaintiff was diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma on 24th March.
Henderson believes his cancer was exclusively caused by his occupational asbestos exposure because he was not a smoker. He says he suffered significant asbestos exposure during his employment between 1954 and 1979.
According to the lawsuit, the defendant companies caused the plaintiff to be exposed regularly to asbestos as well as asbestos-containing products while he had been working as an electrician and a laborer. Henderson says the defendants knew or should’ve known of the hazards of asbestos exposure.
Henderson accuses the defendants of negligence, breach of express warranty, strict liability, breach of implied warranty, conspiracy, fraudulent misrepresentations, failure to warn, and intentional tort. He is demanding a jury trial.
The defendants in this case include: Allegheny Energy Service Corp; 3M Company; AW Chesterton; 4520 Corporation Incorporated; AO Smith Corp; Akzo Nobel Paints; Allegheny Power Systems; Allegheny Electric Co; Armstrong International Incorporated; Appleton Electric; Amatek Incorporated; Armstrong Pumps; Aurora Pump Co; Atlantic Richfield Co; Beazer East; Baltimore Aircoil Co; Buffalo Pumps; Brand Insulations Incorporated; Cattrell Companies; Catalytic Construction Co; Champlain Cable Co; Certainteed Corporation; Cleaver-Brooks; Chevron USA; CNA Holdings; Copes-Vulcan; Cooper Industries; Columbia Chemical Co; Dravo Corporation; Denver Water Association; Dunham-Bush; Dezurik, Inc.; E.I. DuPont; Eaton Corporation; Eastman Kodak; Eaton Electrical; Emerson Industrial; Fairmont Supply; Evets Electric; FB Wright; Flowserve US; Fluor Enterprises; FMC Corporation; General Cable; ; Foster Wheeler; General Electric; General Refractories; Goulds Electronic; Goulds Pumps; Graybar Electric Co; Grinnell Corporation; Honeywell International; Hercules; Hubbell Lighting; IMO Industries; I.U. North America; ; ITT Corporation; Industrial Holdings; John Crane; Lewis Peter; Lockheed Martin; Lightolier Incorporated; McJunkin Corporation; Mueller Steam Specialty; Milwaukee Valve Co; Nibco, Inc.; Mueller Steam Specialty; Occidental Chemical Corp; Nitro Industrial Coverings; OC Keckley Co; Oakfabco; Owens Illinois; Ohio Valley Insulating; Peerless Boilers; Penn Electric; Peerless Pumps; Pneumo Abex; Plastics Engineering; Premiere Refractories; PPG; PSEG; Rapid American; RE Powell Plumbing & Heating; Rockwell Automation; Rust Constructors; RSCC Wire and Cable; Rogers Corporation; Riley Power; Rust International; Schneider Electric; Taylored Industries; Tasco Insulations; TAMKO Roofing Products; the Okonite; Vellumoid, Inc.; Wilsonart International; Yarway Corporation; U.S. Steel; Zurn Industries; and Watson McDaniel.
