Blanchard v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.

¶ 1. Plaintiff Paul Blanchard appeals the superior court’s order granting summary judgment to defendants with respect to his toxic tort personal injury action. We affirm.

¶ 2. In 2005 at age forty-nine, plaintiff was diagnosed with a rare type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma — Primary CNS (Central Nervous System) Large B-Cell Lymphoma. He attributes the onset of the disease to benzene exposure that allegedly occurred between 1968 and 1973 while he was a teenager playing on a ballfield on the grounds of the former Goodyear rubber manufacturing plant that operated in Windsor, Vermont from 1936 to…