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ADAMS v. 3M COMPANY

Civil No. 12-61-ART.

DONNIE ADAMS, Plaintiff, v. 3M COMPANY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Kentucky, Southern Division, Pikeville.

July 5, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donnie Adams, Plaintiff, represented by Michael B. Martin , Maloney Martin, LLP & Zane T. Cagle , The Cagle Law Firm.

3M Company, Defendant, represented by Adam B. Shadburne , Thompson, Miller & Simpson, PLC & Byron N. Miller , Thompson, Miller & Simpson, PLC.

Mine Safety Appliances, Defendant, represented by M. Trent Spurlock , Huddleston Bolen, LLP & Rebecca Rachelle Schafer , Huddleston Bolen, LLP.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

AMUL R. THAPAR, District Judge.

Donnie Adams was diagnosed with two serious coal-related lung diseases in 1981. He filed a workers' compensation claim against his employer that same year, was deemed permanently disabled, and was awarded workers' compensation for life. Over the next twenty-nine years, Adams took no action against the manufacturers who made the respirators he wore in the mines to prevent him from inhaling coal...

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