Judge: Environmental Asbestos Claims Escape Workers’ Compensation Bar

Mealey's (April 19, 2018, 1:51 PM EDT) -- MADISON, Wis. — Claims that workers suffered environmental asbestos exposures separate and distinct from their employment, while perhaps ultimately difficult to prove, fall outside the Wisconsin workers’ compensation law, a federal judge in Wisconsin held April 17 while dismissing nuisance claims as time-barred (Pamela Kilty, et al. v. Weyerhaeuser Co., et al., No. 16-515, Scott Spatz, et al. v. Weyerhaeuser Co., et al., No. 16-726, W.D. Wis., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64002)....