Asbestos and Lung Cancer: Asbestos Court Decisions

Decisions in our case-law library that involve lung cancer: 256 cases, by state. Each line gives the exposure the court described, or else what it decided. For the topic itself, see Asbestos and Lung Cancer.

Wisconsin

• Mohn v. CBS Corporation (1st District, 2018). The court of appeals affirmed summary judgment for Sprinkmann Sons Corporation, holding that Wisconsin's construction statute of repose barred Mary Ellen Mohn's claims and that the statute was not unconstitutional.
• Boyer v. Weyerhaeuser Company (2016). The court granted Weyerhaeuser summary judgment and struck plaintiffs' experts as to Masephol, Prust, Seehafer, Heckel and Treutel, denied them as to Boyer, Pecher and Sydow on public nuisance, and granted summary judgment to Weyerhaeuser on all private nuisance claims.
• Anderson v. Procter & Gamble Paper Products Co. (2013). The court granted Procter & Gamble's motion in limine, reversing its earlier view and holding the repose-statute exception did not apply, so evidence of exposures during improvement and new-construction work is barred at trial, while maintenance exposures remain a fact question.
• Anderson v. Proctor & Gamble Paper Products Co. (2013). The court denied Procter & Gamble Paper Products Co.'s motion for summary judgment, so the plaintiff's premises-owner negligence and wrongful death claims proceed and are not barred by the statute of repose.
• Anderson v. the Proctor & Gamble Paper Products Company (2013). The court denied Procter & Gamble Paper Products Company's amended motion for summary judgment, so the estate of electrician Lloyd Anderson, represented by his wife Beverly Anderson, may proceed on its premises-owner negligence and wrongful death claims.
• Lemberger v. Honeywell International, Inc. (1st District, 2013). The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment in favor of Colleen Lemberger, which the trial court had entered after changing the jury's answers, and remanded with directions to enter judgment on the original verdict, a win for Honeywell.