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In re: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company C-8 Personal Injury Litigation

  1. August 09, 2016

    DuPont Can't Delay Trials In Cancer MDL, Court Told

    Attorneys representing a pair of men in multidistrict litigation accusing DuPont Co. of dumping toxic Teflon chemicals on Monday urged an Ohio federal judge not to reconsider fast-tracking two remaining bellwether trials, arguing that the billion-dollar corporation has had sufficient time and resources to prepare.

  2. August 01, 2016

    DuPont Opposes Two Accelerated Trials In Cancer MDL

    DuPont on Monday urged an Ohio federal judge to rethink a decision to accelerate to trial two additional cases in multidistrict litigation stemming from the company's alleged dumping of toxic teflon chemicals, saying it will be prejudiced by the lack of preparation time.

  3. July 08, 2016

    Jury Awards $500K Punitive Damages In DuPont Cancer MDL

    An Ohio federal jury added $500,000 in punitive damages on Friday to Wednesday's $5.1 million verdict against DuPont in the trial of a cancer survivor who said the company's dumping of a Teflon component into air and water near a West Virginia plant caused his illness, according to the man's lawyer.

  4. July 07, 2016

    DuPont's 'Malice' Could Multiply Its Cancer MDL Liabilities

    The pain of DuPont's $5.1 million compensatory damages bill in a bellwether trial over chemical dumping will be eclipsed by the jury's finding that the company committed "actual malice" in its use of harmful chemicals, triggering punitive damages and potentially multiplying the company's liability in cases yet to be tried, attorneys say.

  5. July 06, 2016

    DuPont Hit With $5.1M Verdict In 2nd Cancer Bellwether Trial

    An Ohio federal jury on Wednesday awarded $5.1 million to a man who says DuPont's chemical dumping caused his cancer and found DuPont liable for actual malice, triggering a punitive damages phase in the second bellwether trial.

  6. June 20, 2016

    DuPont Says Man Can't Prove Chemical Caused His Cancer

    DuPont told the federal judge overseeing its chemical-dumping bellwether trial that the testicular cancer survivor leading the case hasn't presented enough evidence the company's disposal of a key Teflon ingredient was responsible for his disease.​

  7. June 02, 2016

    Exxon Atty Warned DuPont Counsel On Pollution, Jury Told

    In 2000, as DuPont's awareness of the liability blossoming from its pollution of the Ohio River grew, one of its in-house lawyers received some grim advice from an Exxon in-house counsel who was living through the legal fallout from a similar situation, an expert witness told an Ohio federal jury on Thursday.

  8. May 31, 2016

    DuPont Jury To Include 2 Affected By Cancer

    Two people who lost family members to cancer were picked Tuesday afternoon as jurors for a major trial in multidistrict litigation against industrial giant DuPont Co. over its decades-long habit of dumping a Teflon chemical from a factory overlooking the Ohio River, as the company goes up against a man who says his testicular cancer was part of the disease cluster DuPont birthed.

  9. May 27, 2016

    DuPont Can't Get 'Last Word' On Cancer Trials, Court Told

    Lawyers leading multidistrict litigation against Teflon maker DuPont over a pollution-related cancer cluster urged an Ohio federal court Thursday not to let the company get the "last word" on who selects dozens of cases slated for 2017 trials, just as they prepare to launch a key bellwether trial on Tuesday.

  10. May 24, 2016

    DuPont Accused Of Destroying Critical Docs In Cancer MDL

    The man whose bellwether trial starts next week in multidistrict litigation alleging DuPont contaminated drinking water with cancer-causing Teflon chemicals accused the company Monday of destroying crucial underlying records relating to its own trial theory, which should result in a special jury instruction.

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