Lansing built cars and governed the state — the Oldsmobile and REO auto works and the Fisher Body plant filled the capital’s industry, reaching south to the manufacturing of Jackson. Foundry, forge, and assembly work of this kind reportedly relied on asbestos-containing materials, and the region’s trades were reportedly exposed for full careers.
Michigan allows three years from a mesothelioma or asbestos-cancer diagnosis — measured from when the disease was or should have been discovered — to file a personal-injury claim (MCL 600.5805). A wrongful-death claim must generally be brought within three years of death (MCL 600.5852), but it cannot revive a claim that had already lapsed during the person’s lifetime, so the timeline is worth confirming early. Cases are filed in the county Circuit Court of proper venue; Michigan has no statewide asbestos MDL, and Wayne County (Detroit) has historically carried the state’s largest asbestos docket.