Two class-action lawsuits have been filed by area law firms on behalf of residents against firefighting foam manufacturers due to water contamination in the Horsham and Warminster areas. Norristown-based Creedon and Feliciani, along with Philadelphia-based Levin, Fishbein, Sedran, & Berman have announced that the suits will be filed on behalf of 14 residents of Montgomery and Bucks counties …
Residents who filed a class action lawsuit over PFOA contamination want a federal court in Vermont to throw out a company’s motion to dismiss the case. Attorneys for Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics had previously argued the case should be dismissed or stayed because the company challenged the state’s drinking water standard for PFOA, a man-made chemical that has been found …
An Ohio lawyer who represents an estimated 3,500 people in a class-action lawsuit against DuPont is urging the state Health Department not to downplay the health risks of a dangerous chemical that contaminated drinking water supplies in eastern Rensselaer County.
The international company targeted in a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit over PFOA contamination is asking a federal court to dismiss or stay the lawsuit because the company is in litigation with the state of Vermont. The complaint, filed in May, asks that Saint-Gobain pay damages …
The lawsuit was filed Friday by the nonprofit Tennessee Riverkeeper, and it claims that a Decatur, Tennessee chemical plant owned by 3M is responsible for most of the river’s pollution woes. Tennessee Riverkeeper filed the suit under the United States Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, accusing 3M of contaminating the river with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate …
People in Bennington attend a recent public hearing about the North Bennington water crisis. Nearby Pownal reported low levels of contamination Thursday. (Photo: Courtesy Chris Wright)
A group of Bennington County residents have filed a class-action lawsuit against Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, the company Vermont says is responsible for PFOA contamination in their drinking water.
A group of residents has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company believed by the state to be responsible for contaminating private wells. Residents are claiming negligence against Saint-Gobain and seek more than $5 million in damages. They also want the company to pay to connect affected homes to municipal water, clean up contamination and implement long-term medical …
Napoli Shkolnik PLLC filed a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of New York on behalf of Hoosick Falls, New York residents Bryan and Kary Schrom against Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. (Saint-Gobain) and Honeywell International, Inc. (Honeywell). The Village of Hoosick Falls water crisis made headlines earlier in 2016 after …
For decades 3M was the primary producer of C8, or PFOA, and was the sole producer of a related chemical known as PFOS. But while DuPont was caught up in a massive class action suit over C8, 3M has largely avoided public scrutiny and serious legal or financial consequences for its role in developing and selling these industrial pollutants. In February, however, a state court in Minnesota, where …