Trimble County — Bedford and Wises Landing — holds the LG&E Trimble County generating station on the Ohio River, a large coal-fired plant whose boilers and process systems reportedly relied on asbestos-containing insulation throughout its operating life.
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.