Sentences with phrase «from alleged exposure»

Defended an international chemical company in personal injury claims arising from alleged exposure to a pesticide containing Fipronil.

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In addition, a young child who may suffer health consequences because of recent exposure to PFOA in Hoosick Falls could potentially file a claim years from now and allege the exposure was exacerbated because village officials declined to warn residents for more than a year not to drink the water.

His last name appears briefly in documents unsealed last week as part of a lawsuit against Monsanto by people alleging they developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma from exposure to Roundup and its primary ingredient, glyphosate.

WASHINGTON (October 26, 2016)-- The American Chemistry Council (ACC) issued the following statement in response to a paper published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health by Trasande et al. alleging significant European health care costs from exposure to chemicals that the authors have erroneously labeled as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs):

Advised client on compliance with various OSHA standards, including retention of health and safety consultant to review compliance with OSHA standards, and coordinated with litigation counsel in anticipation of possible litigation resulting from alleged worker exposure.

Lightfoot has represented a number of manufacturers in mass tort actions alleging injuries from exposure to various chemicals, including isocyanates, formaldehyde, creosote, dixoin, and metalworking fluids.

Attorneys won affirmance of a grant of summary judgment in a putative medical monitoring class action arising out of alleged neighborhood exposure to beryllium dust and fumes from defendants» plant over the course of many decades.

Our lawyers have defended class actions and individual cases alleging personal injury and property damage from environmental contamination or exposure to chemical products based on all types of legal theories, including negligence, fraud, failure to warn, negligent misrepresentation, trespass, private and public nuisance and damage claims such as «fear of cancer» and medical monitoring.

Representing a variety of clients against single - plaintiff claims alleging injury from exposure to various chemicals, including silica dust, pesticides, PAHs, isocyanates, and other industrial chemicals.

Defended a major medical malpractice carrier and helped avoid a potentially devastating extracontractual exposure arising from its alleged failure to settle a catastrophic birth injury case within policy limits.

Successfully obtained dismissal of same company in multiple other cases similarly alleging exposure from outside contractor activities.

The plaintiffs alleged that Crane Co. failed to take adequate precautions to prevent asbestos fibers from leaving the work site and failed to warn employees of a foreseeable risk of take - home exposures to their cohabitants.

Following discovery, Crane Co. moved for summary judgment on all counts asserting that it had no duty of care to Ms. Jones, its employee's sister - in - law, and that the plaintiffs had failed to establish that the alleged exposure to asbestos from Mr. Nichols» clothing caused Ms. Jones» disease.

John also has extensive first - chair trial experience defending individuals facing significant criminal exposure from alleged violations of federal and state law.

We have, for example, obtained appellate victories in cases involving the preemption of state - law tort claims arising from the alleged malfunctioning of an FDA - approved medical device, the admissibility of statistical evidence that would rebut a plaintiff's evidence of future lost wages, and the purported duty to protect employees» spouses from second - hand asbestos exposure.

While every individual case is different, criminal lawyers should be able to extract from you the elements of your alleged criminal conduct that will factor into your exposure to having a criminal record and serving jail time.

Our products liability experience involves many years representing manufacturers and their interests in personal injury and products liability claims arising from accidents or alleged exposure to toxic materials and chemicals.

They attempted to distinguish Corson's situation from other cases that followed Napier, focusing on the fact that Corson's injuries were the result of alleged chemical exposure, not a physical accident.

We defend clients in toxic tort actions involving medical damages resulting from alleged contaminant exposure.

Examples of such cases are Chandler v Cape Plc [2011] EWHC 951 (QB)(liability of non-employer for exposure to asbestos), Kynixa Ltd v Hynes and others [2008] EWHC 1495 (QB)(claims arising from alleged breaches of restrictive covenants in employment contracts), Romantiek BVBA v Simms [2008] EWHC 3099 (QB) a claim alleging that a public official had committed the tort of misfeasance in public office when discharging a licensing function, OOO and others v The Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [20011] EWHC 1246 (QB)(claims by young foreign females that they had been trafficked into the UK by foreign nationals for the purpose of slavery and that officers of the Metropolitan Police Force breached their human rights in failing to investigate their complaints adequately or at all) and Mouncher and others v The Chief Constable of South Wales Police [2016] EWHC 1367 (QB)(claims by retired and serving police officers for false imprisonment, misfeasance in public office and malicious prosecution against South Wales Police arising from an investigation by officers of that force into alleged criminal conduct on the part of the claimants during the course of an investigation into a notorious murder in South Wales.

Ca., filed May 10, 2017): Arguing that in asbestos exposure cases that do not involve an asbestos - containing product, the traditional «but for» causation standard should be used in cases alleging a failure to protect someone from harm.

Judge rules in Ecolab's favor On July 5, 2005, Magistrate Alonzo P. Wilson of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana entered summary judgment in favor of Ecolab Inc. and dismissed the claims of two nurses who alleged that their exposure to fumes of an Ecolab institutional floor wax stripper containing glycol ethers caused their two babies to suffer from the fatal birth defect anencephaly.

The valid concern is that the narcissistic targeted parent will externalize responsibility by alleging «parental alienation,» thereby continuing the child's exposure to emotional and psychological abuse from profound parental empathic failure and nullification of the child's self - authenticity, physical and psychological control and intimidation of the child, or active sexual exploitation of the child, and if the child reports the abuse the narcissistic predator simply alleges that it's a «false allegation» because of «parental alienation.»

Recently, for example, a Texas court awarded a family $ 32 million from their insurance company for alleged mold exposure.