A Trust Fund Victims Can't Trust
William Carter’s story
Rockport, West Virginia. William was a dedicated family man and extremely hard worker. He supported his wife and two children as a diesetter and pipefitter. He enjoyed working in his large backyard and taking long walks with this wife, Loretta, in the woods behind their home.
From the age of 21, when he started working at the Walker Parkersburg Manufacturing Plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia, William was exposed to asbestos.
William spent the majority of his career, 22 years, as a diesetter and pipefitter at Union Insulating Company. At Union, William’s duties included cutting open bags of raw asbestos and dumping asbestos into a grate, where it was then mixed with other agents in a huge blender. William also installed, maintained, and removed asbestos pipe insulation from pipes and compressors and other electrical equipment throughout the plant. William was never adequately warned about the dangers of asbestos.
William died of asbestos-caused mesothelioma, a terminal cancer caused only by asbestos. William was only 58 years old.
Prior to his diagnosis, William was in excellent health. He was a lifelong non-smoker and had no family history of disease. The bills for William’s health care surpassed $600,000.
How would the asbestos bailout bill hurt William’s family?
The Carters’ legal case is filed in the civil court of Kanawha County, West Virginia. The proposed asbestos bill would prohibit the Carters’ case, and they would be forced to begin the claims process again under the new asbestos trust fund.
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