Carroll County — Ghent — is home to the Kentucky Utilities Ghent generating station, one of the largest coal-fired plants in the state, whose boilers, turbines, and miles of process piping reportedly relied on asbestos-containing insulation for decades.
Kentucky gives just one year — among the shortest deadlines in the country — from a mesothelioma or asbestos-cancer diagnosis to file a personal-injury claim (KRS 413.140), with the clock running from diagnosis under the discovery rule. A wrongful-death claim must be brought within one year of death, and the estate’s personal representative has one year from appointment to file. Because Kentucky’s window is so short, an immediate case review matters more here than almost anywhere. Cases are filed in the county Circuit Court of proper venue; Kentucky has no statewide asbestos MDL.