Each had worked for Weyerhaeuser for years in close contact with asbestos. As such, in order to get around Wisconsin’s Workers Compensation Act, Wis. Stat. § 102.03(2), which provides the “exclusive remedy against the employer” for work-related injuries, the plaintiffs argued that their asbestos-related injuries were not caused on the job, but at home and in the community, and style these as public and private nuisance claims.The plaintiffs presented expert witnesses in support of this theory but the district judge rejected this testimony finding that plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that the expert testimony would be reliable.