Defense Limitations Argument Focuses on Wrong Cancer Diagnosis, Plaintiff Says

LAUREL, Miss. - The widow of a plaintiff who filed an asbestos claim nearly 15 years before it was determined that he also suffered from silica-related cancer is challenging a motion for summary judgment based on the statute of limitations, arguing that the defendants ignore the fact that the claims are predicated on the diagnoses of two separate lung conditions. Jones v. Pulmosan Safety Equipment Co., et al., No. CI-2004-064-SI (Miss. Cir. Ct., Jackson Cty.).

Dorothy Jones argues in an April 7 response to several summary judgment motions filed in Jackson County Circuit Court that while her late husband Leslie …