Football, television star Merlin Olsen diagnosed with mesothelioma
20 Jan 2010 by Wendi Lewis under News, People
On Dec. 31, the online celebrity news source, TMZ, revealed that football and television star Merlin Olsen has filed a lawsuit against a number of companies, claiming they are responsible for exposing him to asbestos, resulting in his recent diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma. Companies named in the suit are Sherwin Williams and Lennox Industries, whose products Olsen says he was exposed to during jobs in his youth, but also NBC Studios, NBC Universal, and 20th Century Fox Film Corporation. It is unclear from the lawsuit how the television and movie companies contributed to Olsen’s asbestos exposure.
Olsen was a professional football player for the Los Angeles Rams team, and later had a successful career as a sportscaster and actor, most notably on shows “Little House on the Prairie” and “Father Murphy.”
According to the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, the defendants “were engaged in the business of manufacturing, fabricating, designing, assembling, distributing, leasing, buying, selling, inspecting, servicing, installing, repairing, marketing, warranting and advertising a certain substance the generic name of which is asbestos.”
News reports say Olsen, with wife Susan by his side, is fighting his mesothelioma and currently undergoing chemotherapy.
Comments to “Football, television star Merlin Olsen diagnosed with mesothelioma”
Mr. Olsen and Family and Friends.Want to say how sorry that you too join the ranks of Victims from something that was done to us and should of stopped 50 years ago.The price paid is when we are told the truth.A truth that is too late but they say a better place awaits us and many of us with Meso or asbestosis,asbestos caused must now sound the alarm, as we continue to do to save and stop more people from this horrible horrible way to die…God Bless you Mr. Olsen and thank you for the many years we all have gotten to know you. I just may run into you up their.Course I here it is a big place but then again, we will have eternity.I'll look for you…PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL.And thank you myMeso because there is more hope today than yesterday and tomarrow…you never know…Please stay away from Libby Mt. NOT a safe place to live and breathe.This is what I do to tell the truth to end what has happened to me and my family and town.The truth.Libby continues to be sold as safe.Some thing IS wrong there…dead wrong.
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