The iWorld

The widow of a California man who died from mesothelioma in January filed an asbestos suit against 50 defendants in Madison County Circuit Court recently. Cynthia Braley claims her late husband, Howard Braley, was employed in operations and as a supervisor from 1968 to 2006 at various locations in Illinois and Missouri.

Braley claims the defendants knew or should have known that the asbestos fibers contained in their products had a toxic, poisonous and highly deleterious effect upon the health of people. Braley alleges that the defendants included asbestos in their products even when adequate substitutes were available and failed to provide any or adequate instructions concerning the safe methods of working with and around asbestos.