Asbestos victim’s dying words aired in wrongful death case against Buffet’s railroad
FILE - This Feb. 17, 2010, aerial file photo, shows the town of Libby, Mont. Mine workers in Libby who were sickened and killed by toxic asbestos exposure and their heirs are suing an insurance company for allegedly stalling legal settlements and medical payments. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Thomas Wells ran a half-marathon at age 60 and played recreational volleyball until he was 63. At 65 years old, doctors diagnosed him with mesothelioma, a rare and aggressive lung cancer linked to asbestos exposure.
“I’m in great pain and alls I see is this getting worse,” the retired middle school teacher from Oregon said in a video deposition recorded in March 2020, four months after his cancer diagnosis. He died a day later.
Portions of Wells’ deposition were replayed Monday in a federal courtroom for a jury hearing a wrongful death case against Warren Buffett’s BNSF Railway.
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