Freeman v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
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September 20, 2016
DuPont Fights To Undo $5.6M Chemical Cancer Verdict
DuPont pressed an Ohio federal judge Monday to undo a $5.6 million jury award to a cancer survivor who claimed the company's dumping of a Teflon component into the air and water near a West Virginia plant caused his illness, calling the July verdict excessive and unjustifiable.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.