Grimm v. Ford Motor Co.

Plaintiff, as personal representative of the estate of his wife, Helen Grimm, filed a wrongful death action against the defendants in Macomb Circuit Court on August 15, 1983. Plaintiff claims that his wife contracted breast cancer as a result of exposure to polyvinyl chloride (pvc) products from the Ford Motor Company vinyl plant in Mt. Clemens. The decedent was diagnosed as having breast cancer in 1965, approximately eight years after they moved into the neighborhood near the Ford plant. Plaintiff and his wife moved out of the neighborhood in 1974 and the decedent died of cancer in 1980.

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