ST. LOUIS — A former mechanic is suing A.W. Chesterton Co., General Electric Co., Union Carbide Corp., and other asbestos products manufacturers and users, alleging failure to warn and negligence.
Maurice Cuthbertson filed a complaint on March 8 in the St. Louis 22nd Judicial Circuit Court against the defendants alleging that they breached their duties to exercise due care for the safety of others.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff alleges that at various times during his career as a mechanic from 1960 to 2000, he was exposed to and inhaled or ingested asbestos fibers emanating from certain products manufactured, sold, distributed or installed by the defendants. On Sept. 4, 2015, he first became aware that he had developed lung cancer, an asbestos-induced disease, and that the disease was allegedly wrongfully caused.
The plaintiff holds A.W. Chesterton Co., General Electric Co., Union Carbide Corp., and others responsible because the defendants allegedly intentionally included asbestos fibers in their products when they knew that it had toxic, poisonous and highly deleterious effect to human's health, and failed to provide adequate warnings and instructions concerning the dangers of working with or around products containing asbestos fibers.
The plaintiff requests a trial by jury; and seeks compensatory damages of more than $25,000, and all further relief that the court may deem just and equitable. He is represented by Laci M. Whitley of the Flint Law Firm LLC in Edwardsville.
St. Louis 22nd Judicial Circuit Court case number 1822-CC00498