Construction Industry: Asbestos Court Decisions

Decisions in our case-law library that involve construction: 503 cases, by state. Each line gives the exposure the court described, or else what it decided. For the topic itself, see Construction Industry.

Rhode Island

• Day v. 3M Company Inc. (2024). Wife who laundered her husband's work clothes at 1966-1990
• Turcotte v. 3M Company (2018). Electrician at construction project in Florida, 1973
• Lepore v. AO Smith Corp. (2017). Sheet metal worker at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital campuses, 1960s and 1970s
• Murray v. 3M Company (2017). HVAC contractor at Fred Hayes Mechanical jobsites, 1962-1972
• Baumgartner v. American Standard, Inc. (2015). Insulator at Woodville Junior High School, 1973
• Melford v. Abex Corporation (2012). Home renovation projects at home renovation projects, mid-1960s through 1990
• Carlson v. 84 Lumber Company (2011). Laborer and mason's assistant at Carlson Construction, Ostego, 1961-1968
• Asbury v. AW Chesterton Company (2010). Person present during home construction at Construction of her parents' Iowa home
• Benoit v. AW Smith Corporation (2009). Union plumber at commercial and residential sites in Vermont and New Hampshire, 1951 to 1990; mid-1950s onward as union plumber
• Clayton v. American Biltrate (2008). Assisted with a family-owned construction company at family-owned construction company
• Dyer v. Aurora Pump Co. (2008). Insulator mechanic/journeyman at 1957-1994
• Lapointe v. 3M Company (2008). Performing home construction projects at 1950-1960
• Plympton v. American Standard (inc.) (2008). General contractor installing drywall at late 1960s and early 1970s
• Hicks v. Biltrite (2007). Young teenager observing and helping with roof repair at business attached to her family's home, approximately 1957-1962

South Carolina

• Matthews v. EI DU Pont DE Nemours and Company (2018). Insulation apprentice at DuPont facility, Florence, 1960 for at least two years

Tennessee

• Frazier v. Jackson (2014). Worked in the construction industry at 1948-1972
• Mackie v. Young Sales Corp. (2001). Installed asbestos insulation at 1948-1988; last injurious exposure 1973
• Daniels v. Combustion Engineering, Inc. (Eastern Section, 1978). Professional installer of insulation materials at 1965-1977

Texas

• Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Co. v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. (2025). Owner and operator of a construction company at Randall Smith Construction, 1973-1983
• Acevedo v. Abraham (2017). Worker for a demolition company at 2010-2011
• Bostic v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (2014). Child and teenager helping his father with drywall remodeling projects at 1967-77
• Georgia-Pacific Corporation v. Bostic (5th District, 2010). Child helper on his father's drywall and remodeling jobs at 1967-1977
• Smith v. Kelly-Moore Paint Company, Inc. (2nd District, 2010). Self-employed drywaller finisher using joint compound at 1955-mid 1980s
• Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. Stephens (2007). Commercial painter at commercial buildings including schools, hospitals, paper mills and grocery stores, 1954-1977
• Georgia-Pacific Corporation v. Stephens (1st District, 2007). Commercial painter at commercial buildings (schools, hospitals, paper mills, grocery stores, car dealerships), 1954-1977
• In re Sears, Roebuck and Co. (2003). Apprentice plumber at family plumbing and heating business, 1971-1978
• Temple-Inland Forest Products Corp. v. Carter (1999). Biskamp Electric employee installing electric outlets and computer jacks at Temple-Inland paper mill laboratory
• Fuller-Austin Insulation Co. v. Bilder (9th District, 1998). Stepdaughter of an insulator installer; washed his work clothes at Ray Hardy's home, 1956-1960
• Celotex Corp. v. Tate (13th District, 1990). Plant worker handling raw asbestos for kalite mixing; also electrician at Acme plant (wallboard and plaster plant), almost thirty years

Utah

• Riggs v. Asbestos Corp. Ltd. (2013). Helped her father at residential construction sites, cleaning up and sanding joint compound dust at Her father's residential construction sites, 1958-1977
• Larson v. Bondex International, Inc. (2011). Homeowner during home construction at her and her former husband's home
• Tisco Intermountain v. Industrial Com'n of Utah (1987). Insulation mechanic at 1947-1971

Virginia

• Contreras v. Thor Norfolk Hotel, LLC (2003). Construction worker on hotel renovation at Doubletree Hotel, Norfolk
• Roller v. Basic Const. Co. (1989). Carpenter and later carpenter foreman at Newport News, 1949-1977
• Caudle-Hyatt, Inc. v. Mixon (1979). Insulator at Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Williamsburg, June-October 1976

Washington

• Budd v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc. (1st Division, 2022). Drywall worker at his father and uncle's drywall business, Moses Lake, 1962-1972
• 1Up Floors, LLC v. Department of Labor & Industries (1st Division, 2020). Molina's employee removing flooring at Unit 404, apartment building on Columbian Way, Seattle, 2017
• Noll v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (1st Division, 2019). Worked with asbestos-cement pipe on construction sites at construction sites in Washington, late 1970's
• Noll v. American Biltrite Inc. (2017). Construction worker cutting asbestos-cement pipe at Port Orchard, 1977-1979
• Estenson v. Caterpillar Inc. (1st Division, 2015). Heavy-duty mechanic at Morrison Knudsen Construction Company, 1955
• Noll v. American Biltrite, Inc. (1st Division, 2015). Worked for a construction company; cut asbestos-cement pipe at Port Orchard, 1977-1979
• McMann v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2014). Union carpenter at Duplexes in Lacey, 1968
• Botts v. US (2013). Truck driver making deliveries at warehouses and construction sites
• Butler v. Amtico International Inc. (1st Division, 2008). Floor installer at 1965-1969
• Taylor v. Union Carbide Corporation (2nd Division, 2008). Electrician installing electrical wiring on construction sites at Tacoma construction jobsites, 1972-1973
• Weyerhaeuser Company v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Company (2008). Carpenter at 1954-1999
• Butler v. Amtico International Inc. (1st Division, 2006). Floor installer at late 1960s to early 1970s

West Virginia

• Marlin v. Bill Rich Const., Inc. (1996). Construction worker on school renovation at Hundred High School, 1988

Wisconsin

• Mohn v. CBS Corporation (1st District, 2018). Worker at construction sites at 1960-1980
• Carter v. Henry Carlson's Construction Company (2017). Construction worker demolishing old sections of a hospital at Hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1988