Green Bay runs on paper and the bay. The lower Fox River is lined with paper mills — Fort Howard (Georgia-Pacific), Green Bay Packaging, and the Charmin/Procter operations — and the bay carried the Marinette Marine shipyards to the north. Papermaking and shipbuilding are high-heat trades that reportedly relied on asbestos insulation and materials through the twentieth century, and the region’s trades were reportedly exposed for full careers.
Wisconsin allows three years from a mesothelioma or asbestos-cancer diagnosis to file a personal-injury claim (Wis. Stat. § 893.54), with the clock starting when the disease is discovered or reasonably should have been. A wrongful-death claim runs three years from the date of death, which can open a new filing window. Cases are filed in the county Circuit Court of proper venue; Wisconsin has no statewide asbestos MDL, and Milwaukee County has historically carried the state’s largest asbestos docket.