Toxic Tort and Mass Tort Practice Area
Claims of personal injury or property damage caused by toxic, hazardous or other materials are always of great concern. Our firm's clients that provide products and services to customers naturally worry about whether such claims, that question their professionalism and integrity, have a substantive basis. In particular, they are concerned about whether the products or services provided have caused injury to the environment or caused customers, their neighbors or perhaps others to suffer serious personal injury or property damage. Clients are also concerned about how such claims will impact business.Tressler, Soderstrom, Maloney & Priess, LLP has the legal expertise, technical background, practical experience, litigation and trial skills, case management abilities, experience with experts, staffing and technology to counsel and defend clients regarding these types of claims pre suit and after suit is filed, including if multiple cases are filed in multiple jurisdictions. Most important, we work with the client to solve the problems presented as soon as possible.
The toxic and mass tort cases we have handled have involved many different materials, complex facts and multiple parties.- Toxic materials: Toxic materials have included silicone gel breast implants, collagen, disinfectants, rubber adhesive, alkylate, "toxic" mold, asbestos, silica, pigments, lead paint, urea formaldehyde, trichloroethylene ("TCE"), tetrachloroethylene ("PCE" or "perc"), 111 trichloroethane ("TCA"), dry cleaning solutions, petroleum products, paint solvents, carpet off gases, plating solutions, hydrochloric acid, welding rods, and latex gloves.
- Other products: Products have included forklift components, vehicle components and vehicles in transportation cases.
- Clients: Clients have included members of many different industries, including chemical manufacturing, plating, paint formulation, construction, product manufacturing, dry cleaning, chemical transportation, food manufacturing, petroleum service station, pipe manufacturing and distribution, pharmaceutical and medical product distribution.
- Fact patterns: Settings of the cases have included consumer products and industrial, environmental and "sick building" exposures.
- Common law theories of liability: Common law theories have included claims of negligence, strict liability including ultrahazardous activity, private and public nuisances, trespass, negligence per se, conspiracy, alternate theories of liability and punitive damages.
- Parties: Cases have been brought by one plaintiff to hundreds of plaintiffs and have involved as many as 60 defendants.
- Timeframes: Fact patterns have spanned decades.
- Property damage: Property damage claims often involve complicated technical issues, including environmental remediation, evaluation of construction issues regarding moisture intrusion and, in asbestos property damage cases, dust sampling and building product abatement.
- Bodily injuries: Bodily injury cases have involved both serious and novel personal injury claims, including neurological and immune system injuries, allergic reactions, reactive airway dysfunction syndrome ("RADS"), asbestos related disease and other malignancies.
We have also represented individuals that have personal injuries due to exposure and/or inhalation of toxic substances.
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