Two separate lawsuits have been filed in West Virginia’s Kanawha Circuit court by two married couples. The lawsuits were filed against a number of different companies for allegedly employing less than sufficient safety practices when handling asbestos products. Robert L. Wood of Wheeling, West Virginia, and John D. Kontra Sr. of Glendale, Arizona, the two husbands represented in each respective case, are both facing forms of cancer which they believe their former employers to be responsible for. Both men also have a history of using smoking tobacco products which is known not only to cause various types of cancer, but also to aggravate and expedite the development of cancers specifically associated with asbestos exposure.
Asbestos was used as both a fire retardant, general construction material, insulator, and strengthening and bonding additive for other raw materials throughout much of the twentieth century. The mineral’s availability and ease of fabrication into a variety of different forms made it ideal for an array of applications in several different industries. Although asbestos’s dangerous effects on the human body were discovered and documented as early as the 1930′s, it was nearly fifty years after that before regulations defining its safe use and handling began to become commonplace. Today, asbestos is either completely banned from being mined, imported and exported, or heavily restricted in almost all developed nations.
Asbestos fibers have been shown to cause a variety of health complications, including mesothelioma, a rare, aggressive and fatal cancer that develops most commonly in the chest or abdominal cavity of its victims. When asbestos fibers are either inhaled or ingested, the human body’s regular defenses are unable to contain and remove the microscopic, needle like particles. The fibers pass through the walls of the lungs, stomach or intestines, and become lodged in the mesothelium, a soft tissue that lines our body’s vital organs. The accumulation of these fibers in the mesothelium causes internal scarring which can develop into malignant tumors over time. The process of developing malignant tumors can take several decades from the time of initial asbestos exposure, making the disease difficult to diagnose and lending to its dismal prognosis. Most patients diagnosed with mesothelioma can expect to live no more than eighteen months.
The lawsuits filed by Mr. Wood, Mr. Kontra and their wives jointly implicate more than 150 different companies. Among the more well known of these are General Electric Company, Ford Motor Company, 3M Company, and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. News sources in the area report that the lawsuits accuse the companies of “negligence, contaminated buildings, breach of expressed/implied warranty, strict liability, intentional tort, conspiracy, misrepresentations and post-sale duty to warn”.
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