Clay County sits across the Missouri River on the north side of the metro — North Kansas City’s dense industrial district, Liberty, Gladstone, and the auto works at Claycomo. The industry here leaned toward manufacturing and assembly, and the plants ran the high-heat, high-pressure systems that reportedly carried asbestos insulation, gaskets, and refractory. Workers at these facilities may have encountered asbestos-containing materials in boiler and power rooms, on process piping, and around furnaces and presses.
Claims arising in Clay County are venued in the Seventh Judicial Circuit, seated in Liberty — a separate court from Jackson County’s Sixteenth across the river, and from the Kansas venues to the west. Missouri’s five-year filing deadline applies.