Gallia County holds two of the largest coal-fired stations in the country — the Gavin plant at Cheshire and the Kyger Creek plant — where the boilers, turbines, and miles of process piping reportedly relied on asbestos-containing insulation for their entire operating lives. The Gavin plant’s history is well known: its operator bought out the entire village of Cheshire in 2002.
Ohio asbestos cases are filed in the Court of Common Pleas of the county of proper venue — there is no single statewide asbestos court, though Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) has historically carried Ohio’s largest asbestos docket. Ohio allows two years from a mesothelioma or asbestos-cancer diagnosis to file (Ohio Rev. Code § 2305.10), and two years from the date of death for a wrongful-death claim (§ 2125.02).