Pleural Plaques and Pleural Thickening: Asbestos Court Decisions

Decisions in our case-law library that involve pleural plaques and thickening: 155 cases, by state. Each line gives the exposure the court described, or else what it decided. For the topic itself, see Pleural Plaques and Pleural Thickening.

Wisconsin

• Ahnert v. Employers Insurance Company OF Wausau (2016). The district court denied Wisconsin Electric Power Company's motion for summary judgment on the premises-owner, statute of repose and punitive damages issues, so Beverly Ahnert's claims go to trial.
• Ahnert v. Employers Insurance Company OF Wausau (2016). The court denied Pabst Brewing Company's motion for summary judgment, leaving the executrix's safe-place negligence claim over Daniel Ahnert's mesothelioma to proceed against Pabst.
• Ahnert v. Employers Insurance Company OF Wausau (2016). The district court denied Sprinkmann Sons Corporation's and Employers Insurance Company of Wausau's motion for summary judgment, so plaintiff Beverly Ahnert's claims against Sprinkmann will go to a jury.
• Ahnert v. Employers Insurance Company OF Wausau (2016). The district court granted Foster Wheeler's motion for summary judgment against Beverly Ahnert's claims and dismissed the case as to Foster Wheeler, finding the claims barred by Wisconsin's construction statute of repose.
• Sopha v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1999). The Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed the circuit court's order dismissing the Sophas' mesothelioma action against Owens-Corning and the other defendants as time-barred, and remanded for further proceedings.