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Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley

Does Strict Liability Apply When You’re Injured by Exposure to Toxic Chemicals?

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It is becoming almost impossible to avoid being exposed to multiple different chemicals on a daily basis. Companies use them to make their environments look and smell cleaner, to keep pests away, and to save time in...more

Goldberg Segalla

Judicial Hellholes: 2024-2025 Executive Summary

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The 2024-2025 Judicial Hellholes report shines its brightest spotlight on 10 jurisdictions that have earned reputations as Judicial Hellholes. Asbestos litigation continues to be a trend within numerous jurisdictions....more

Console and Associates, P.C.

Sterigenics Settles Pending Ethylene Oxide Cancer Lawsuits

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Last month, Sterigenics and its parent company, Sotera Health, agreed to pay $35 million to settle cases filed by 79 people who claim that exposure to ethylene oxide (“EtO”) from a medical Sterigenics facility in the Atlanta...more

MG+M The Law Firm

Risk of Injury is Not an Injury: New Hampshire Supreme Court Declines to Recognize Medical Monitoring

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Last week, the New Hampshire Supreme Court held that state law does not recognize medical monitoring as a remedy or cause of action for plaintiffs who allege that they were exposed to a toxic substance. In Kevin Brown v....more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Product Lines - Toxic Torts and Products Liability Insights: Issue 2, 2019

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Welcome to the second 2019 issue of Product Lines – our quarterly e-newsletter that focuses on toxic torts and products liability issues. For this edition, we are reporting on several important and timely legal issues. As...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

Monsanto Verdict Forewarns of Claims for Failure to Warn

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By now, we have all heard about the $289 million verdict against Monsanto in the Roundup litigation. A California jury awarded the sum to Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, a school groundskeeper who claimed that exposure to Roundup...more

Gray Reed

Hydrocarbon Exposure Dismissal Affirmed

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You might recall previous entries discussing Parr v. Aruba – a suit for personal injuries from oilfield pollution (and a $2.9MM verdict for the plaintiffs). Not all similar suits have the same result....more

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