Dixie Lee Kimble, a Michigan women, recently filed a lawsuit claiming that she contracted mesothelioma cancer subsequent to being wrongfully exposed to asbestos. Kimble filed the lawsuit against 144 defendant corporations on September 23, 2008 in the Madison Circuit Court.
According to Kimble she was allegedly wrongfully exposed to asbestos numerous times while working at various production factories.
Kimble claims that she was exposed to the toxic materials while working at Seward Luggage in 1973, at the Hush Puppies Shoe Factory in 1976, at various other locations in 1978, and while working as an assembler for Electrolux from 1978 to 2006.
Furthermore, Kimble alleges that she was exposed to asbestos from 1966 to 1971, during which her parents’ home was being remodeled and at which time her father installed a new roof on the home as well as did work on tractor clutches containing asbestos.
Dixie Lee Kimball was diagnosed with mesothelioma on March 21. She is seeking in upwards of $100,000 for punitive damages, $100,000 in exemplary damages, $150,000 in economic damages, and $150,000 in compensatory damages, including the costs of the lawsuit itself.
Kimble claims that the effects of her exposure to asbestos should have been foreseeable by her former employers and disclosed to her upon her hiring at these corporations.
