Wisconsin Plaintiff Urges Appeals Court to Reverse Limitations Ruling in Silica Case

MADISON, Wis. - A foundry worker's suit against several respirator-defendants should not have been barred by Wiconsin's statute of limitations because when the plaintiff was diagnosed with silicosis more than 15 years ago, he could not have possibly suspected that the devices were a cause of his disease. Cocroft v. Badger Mining Corp., et al., No. 02-1197 (Wis. App. Ct., Dist. 1).

That is the argument posed by a plaintiff who recently appealed a circuit court decision granting summary judgment to several defendants he sued in 2000, more than a decade after a doctor told him that he was suffering …