Cleanup of benzene-contaminated groundwater at an old BF Goodrich tire plant in Miami, Oklahoma is underway. Groundwater monitoring is continuing in some locations and at other places further away from the old tire facility, 17 benzene monitoring wells have been plugged and abandoned, as directed by the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ). Benzene is a highly toxic chemical...
Though the city of Flint, Michigan is surrounded by the largest freshwater supply in the world, its citizens have been drinking tap water contaminated with lead and other dangerous substances. Lead exposure is known to cause a number of problems in children, including: a reduction in IQ; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); developmental delays; kidney damage; hearing loss; and...
– DALLAS – Two Waters Kraus & Paul Attorneys Recognized Among State’s Young Up-And-Coming Lawyers.
Waters Kraus & Paul partner Gibbs Henderson and attorney Patrick Wigle have been selected for inclusion on the Texas Rising Stars list. The list will be featured in the April 2016 issue of Texas Super Lawyers magazine – Rising Stars...
Around 100,000 women have filed transvaginal mesh (TVM) lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson, Bard, Boston Scientific and others as a result of severe and debilitating injuries they’ve suffered after being implanted with TVM. In January, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a new warning about vaginal mesh, now classifying the device as “high risk.” Transvaginal mesh is...
Researchers with Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and scientists from Genentech have conducted a genomic analysis of more than 200 mesothelioma tumors. They have discovered genetic alterations that may ultimately help physicians to treat mesothelioma and to improve methods for diagnosing the disease and assessing patients’ likely outcomes. Their research was recently published in...
A discovery schedule has been proposed in the roughly 100 IVC Filter lawsuits pending in a federal MDL in Arizona before U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell. The medical device lawsuits include claims based on injuries caused by the Bard Recovery, G2, and G2 Express retrievable filters. The discovery schedule would apply to the earliest cases filed in the MDL. Those cases might see a trial...
Benzene — a chemical known to cause acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or myelodysplastic syndrome — has been detected in troubling levels in the air in neighborhoods near Houston, Texas. Scientists guessed that the elevated benzene levels originated from the oil refineries lining the Houston Ship Channel. That’s where petroleum product producers load and unload benzene-containing crude oil...
United States veterans represent eight percent of the nation’s population, but they make up 30 percent of Americans who develop mesothelioma, a fatal cancer with only one established cause — asbestos exposure. That’s why new laws proposed by asbestos companies are particularly unfair to U.S. veterans.
Tennessee Lawmakers Considering Legislation to Help Asbestos Companies Shun...
Metal-on-metal hip replacement manufacturers must now submit a premarket approval application (PMA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for two types of hip systems, one having a cemented acetabular component and the other having an uncemented acetabular component. The FDA’s final order released this past February reportedly gives medical device makers until May 18 to submit their new...
Press Release from Texas Civil Rights Project.
Austin, TX – In a lawsuit filed this morning in a San Antonio federal court, the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) challenged voter registration procedures at the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). As the Complaint explains, Texas is violating the U.S. Constitution and federal law by refusing to register eligible...
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