The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a district court’s order granting summary judgment to a bearing manufacturing company, finding negligence claims filed by a man suffering from multiple sclerosis were time-barred by Texas law, not Missouri.
Spencer Knapp and his wife accused FAG Bearings and other entities of negligence. Knapp alleged he developed multiple sclerosis (MS) as a result of his prenatal and childhood exposure to trichloroethylene (TCE), claiming that “the FAG Bearings facility near Silver Creek, Missouri, where he grew up, improperly disposed of TCE from approximately 1975 to 1981,” according to the appellate court’s opinion.
