TOXIC TORT LITIGATION
Clients regularly retain us to defend them across the country in matters alleging personal injuries from exposure to toxic substances including:
- lead paint
- mold
- asbestos
- chemical substances, including VOCs and PCBs
- pesticide
- diesel fuel and exhaust
- biological matter
- noise
Many of these claims are brought by our clients’ employees, or are by or on behalf of individuals, often children, who live ” or go to school ” in buildings owned, constructed or managed by our clients.
Our attorneys have built a substantial knowledge base regarding industrial hygiene and medicine, and the unique liability and causation issues inherent in these types of claims. This expertise is especially important because success in toxic tort cases often turns on winning a challenge to the admissibility of a plaintiff’s “scientific” evidence or a well-prepared and effective cross-examination of a plaintiff’s causation experts.
The firm has recently been retained by a New York City property manager to defend several suits in Bronx County brought by plaintiffs who claim to have been seriously injured by exposure to the Legionella bacteris, resulting in Legionnaires’ Disease. Drawing upon our decades of experience defending mold and other toxic tort claims, we have assembled as consultants a first-rate team of highly experienced Legionnaires’ Disease experts, including an epidemiologist, microbiologist and mechanical engineer. We are prepared to work closely with building owners, property managers, and business operators in their efforts to prevent Legionnaires’ Disease outbreaks, address such outbreaks should they actually occur, and respond to any resulting claims or suits.
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