By Samantha Ahearn | Published December 9, 2013 | Posted in News | Tagged Tags: contamination, Corporations, EPA, PFOA, Toxic Exposure | Leave a comment
The Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) is in the process of proposing a rule to end future manufacturing, importing, and/or usage of perfluorooctanoic acid (“PFOA”). Additionally, earlier this year (and ahead of schedule), Dupont ceased its production of PFOA at all of its facilities. Recently in New Jersey, the Toxic Injury Lawyers helped settle a case Read More
Read MoreThe Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) is in the process of proposing a rule to end future manufacturing, importing, and/or usage of perfluorooctanoic acid (“PFOA”). Due to concerns over PFOA’s persistence in the environment, the EPA created a voluntary program, the PFOA Stewardship Program (“Program”), to encourage companies that produce the chemical to eliminate production by Read More
Read MoreThe Toxic Injury Lawyers proudly represented an individual who resided in Central New Jersey caused by a landlord’s failure to clean gutters and remove sizable amounts of water from a basement. In this case, our client sustained both temporary and permanent injuries resulting in prolonged hospitalization. This case was resolved through a monetary settlement in Read More
Read MoreA New Jersey Superior Court judge ruled that defendants in the Kiddie Kollege trial will pay $1.5 million toward neuropsychological medical monitoring for mercury-exposed children at the Franklin Township day care center. After an eleventh-hour Gloucester County settlement, Superior Court Judge James E. Rafferty ruled that Franklin Township and the real estate brokers that acquired Read More
Read MoreUnder a settlement agreement reached in federal court, PPG Industries has agreed to clean up one of the last remaining chromium contamination sites in New Jersey, according to a national environmental organization that filed a lawsuit to get the clean-up completed. Under the settlement agreement, PPG has agreed to remove 700,000 tons of chromium waste Read More
Read MoreN.J. Appellate Court Rules Building Owner Not At Fault for Employee Death Due to Legionnaire’s Disease A New Jersey Appellate Court recently ruled in Vellucci v. Allstate Insurance Company that defendant Mack-Cali Realty Corp., an owner and manager of commercial properties, is not liable for the death of Albert D. Vellucci, who likely contracted Legionnaire’s Read More
Read MoreIt has been announced by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) that the New Brunswick Water Department has repeatedly filed false water data reports. These reports include falsified water quality tests, incorrectly calculated test results, and failure to notify the public of failures to meet water quality standards. The DEP news release, available Read More
Read MoreIn a precedential case, the New Jersey Appellate Division held that an email sent by an employee of a corporation to the corporation’s general counsel was inadmissible under the attorney-client privilege and that such privilege was not subsequently waived when the employee later disclosed the email to a third party. The case involved the alleged Read More
Read MoreA federal court judge has ruled that the negligence claims brought by the Toxic Injury Lawyers on behalf of over 100 Paulsboro residents for exposure to toxic vinyl chloride following the November 2012 train derailment can move forward. Click here to read more.
Read MoreThe health effects reported by several Roxbury Township residents who live near the Fenimore landfill sites, include headaches, nausea and trouble breathing, allegedly due to hydrogen sulfide exposure. Click here to read more.
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