West Michigan’s lakeshore paired the furniture towns — Holland and Zeeland — with some of the largest power plants on Lake Michigan: the Consumers Energy J.H. Campbell station at Port Sheldon, the Palisades nuclear plant at Covert, and the Grand Haven generating works. Furniture manufacturing, coal-fired power, and process industry of this kind reportedly relied on asbestos-containing insulation and materials for decades.
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.