State Industrial Insurance System v. Jesch

OPINION

Robert Jesch was diagnosed as having malignant mesothelioma involving the right lung in March 1982. Mr. Jesch elected surgical intervention, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. All treatment modalities proved unsuccessful and there was spread of the disease into the opposite lung, and nodes of the neck and scalp. On June 21, 1982, Mr. Jesch died. He was fifty-eight years old at the time of his death. Before his death, Mr. Jesch and his wife were advised by an attending physician to seek disability benefits as his disease was caused by work-related exposure to asbestos fibers. Mrs.…