Recent Posts in Toxic Torts Category
Posted on Dec 6, 2017
On August 28, Richard Rowe—Arkema's CEO—warned nearby residents of Crosby, TX that the local plant was going to explode in the next six days. The plant, which makes highly-volatile ...
Posted on Jan 23, 2014
A woman that suffered injuries caused by carbon monoxide poisoning via her apartment furnace has been awarded $28.2 million in damages, in what may be the greatest amount awarded in the state for a ...
Posted on Sep 20, 2012
A lot of people love microwave popcorn, but don’t realize that habitually consuming this snack can actually end in serious illness. Wayne Watson was unaware of the dangers of microwave popcorn ...
Posted on Sep 7, 2011
Courthouse News Service has reported that a federal judge has approved the release of ten years worth of data, from a power plant to a family that claims that their young daughter's brain cancer was ...
Posted on Aug 29, 2011
On August 25, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that a high-profile lawsuit has been quietly settled between Marcellus Shale gas drilling and a family that claimed that their health was harmed by ...
Posted on Aug 27, 2009
A federal jury has ordered DuPont Performance Coatings to pay more than $1.25 million to six people who suffered injuries after a sulfuric acid spill at an eastern Kentucky plant. The toxic leak ...
Posted on Aug 11, 2009
In Texas, a family has filed a mesothelioma lawsuit against DuPont De Nemours and Co. The family filed their wrongful death claim in Jefferson County Court after losing family member, Albert Abshire, ...
Posted on Mar 9, 2009
Former workers at a Pennsylvania chemical lab may be entitled to compensation under an 8-year-old law that compensates employees of former nuclear weapons plants. The U.S. Department of Labor recently ...