A federal district court judge denied Corteva Inc. and DuPont de Nemours Inc.’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought again them for lack of personal jurisdiction. The companies claimed that the plaintiff, the city of Stuart, Florida, lacked jurisdiction over them because they are based in Delaware, but the court disagreed. The court held that…
3M, DuPont de Nemours, The Chemours Co., and others were sued in South Carolina federal court by a man who alleges that he developed prostate cancer from his exposure to firefighting foam containing PFAS. The complaint alleges negligence, design defect, battery, inadequate warning, and other causes of action. The plaintiff claims that the companies performed…
The District Court of South Carolina awarded attorneys representing Wisconsin homeowners alleging contaminated drinking water in their wells due to the actions of makers of firefighting foam $5.4 million in fees and costs, which amounts to 33.3% of the $17.5 million settlement agreed to in January. This case was one of many moving forward in…
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) rejected Michigan’s attempt to keep its PFAS lawsuit, filed in January 2020 (Nessel v. Chemguard, Inc., 2021 WL 744683, at *3 (W.D. Mich. Jan. 6, 2021)), in Michigan, instead sending the suit to multidistrict litigation in South Carolina. The JPML determined that Michigan could not separate its claims…
Tyco Fire Products LP has agreed to a $17.5 million settlement to resolve claims by plaintiffs alleging PFAS from Tyco’s operations contaminated their drinking wells. The court in the South Carolina AFFF MDL has issued a preliminary approval of the parties’ agreement. January 25, 2021 | In re Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Products Liability Litigation, MDL…