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Toxic tort: Third Circuit dismisses putative class actions seeking medical monitoring

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 18 2010

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of two putative class actions that sought medical monitoring for workers and nearby residents of Pennsylvania factories that used beryllium

Toxic tort: federal court denies class certification in cancer cluster lawsuit

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 19 2010

A federal judge in Pennsylvania has refused to certify a class in a lawsuit against Rohm and Haas Co. alleging that vinyl chloride contamination in McCollum Lake Village, Illinois, caused an increase in brain cancer rates among local residents