DuPont appealed the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio’s judgment in a PFAS exposure case that required the company to pay the plaintiff, a cancer survivor, $40 million. The case is part of a group of lawsuits by Ohio and West Virginia residents who alleged that DuPont’s plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia…
Judge Noel L. Hillman of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey denied Solvay’s motion to dismiss Plaintiffs’ tort claims stemming from alleged Teflon-related PFAS contamination, finding the putative class had sufficiently pled its claims and demonstrated standing. Judge Hillman only dismissed Plaintiffs’ punitive damages claim, leaving their other claimed damages—bodily, economic,…
3M removed Michigan’s PFAS contamination case to federal court, arguing that its AFFF was developed in accordance with applicable federal military requirements and that, as a result, removal is proper because defendants sued for acts committed at a federal officer’s direction may remove. 3M also argues it plans to invoke the government contractor defense. Although…
Residents and property owners near Summerville, Georgia filed a putative class action alleging PFAS-contaminated sludge and biosolids from Trion, Georgia’s water pollution control plant are migrating and contaminating their properties and farms. Plaintiffs’ complaint, which alleges causes of action in tort and under the Clean Water Act and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, seeks injunctive…
Pennsylvania-American Water Co. alleges in a new PFAS contamination suit against PFAS manufacturers that DuPont violated the Pennsylvania Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act by illegally transferring its PFAS business to Chemours in an attempt to avoid PFAS-related liability. The suit, which names many PFAS manufacturers, also alleges strict liability, products liability, negligence, and nuisance claims. February…