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Case ID: 4611 | Environmental | 01/17/2006
In a suit filed in Baltimore County Circuit Court, residents of three homes near Wally's Country Store Citgo Station state their well water has been contaminated with the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether. They claim the fuel company and gas station operators failed to properly monitor the storage tanks. The additive, commonly known as MTBE, has been linked to cancer in laboratory animals.
According to the suit, 11 of 26 residential wells near the station at Middletown and Rayville roads tested positive for MTBE. Plaintiffs are seeking compensation for medical monitoring and other expenses, and $200 million in punitive damages, according to the lawsuit. At Lawcash.com, it is our goal to keep you informed about important legal cases, class actions and settlements. Our lawyers offer free legal evaluations in tort cases, class actions, personal injury, and other lawsuits because we are dedicated to helping you resolve your legal complaints. Other Environmental Cases of Interest Two Empire, Ohio residents filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court seeking an order for First Energy Corporation to establish a medical monitoring program and to eliminate emissions from the Ohio Edison Sammis power plant at Stratton.
A class action has been filed against St. Joe Paper Company and its successor, The St. Joe Company, on behalf of the residents of Millview, a neighborhood in the panhandle town of Port St. Joe, Florida. The suit alleges that the companies knowingly exposed the plaintiffs to hazardous substances. Kahn Gauthier Swick is investigating possible legal actions against Norfolk Southern and other responsible parties after a train carrying chlorine as well as several other toxic chemicals crashed into a parked train at the Avondale Mills Textile Plant in the small town of Graniteville, South Carolina, in Aiken County, on January 6, 2005, causing eight deaths, hundreds of injuries and an evacuation of the surrounding area. In 2000, California Supreme Court ruled that workers must get paid for compulsory travel time. The court has rendered a $13+ million and verdict in a class-action filed against D'Arrigo Brothers Company on behalf of laborers, who alleged that the company failed to pay them for thousands of hours spent traveling on company vans to and from the crops they picked between 1996 and 2000. The money will not be distributed until all possible appeals have been exhausted. New Jersey resident Donald Coles charged that the Chambers Works Plant in Deepwater, N.J., released perfluorooctanoic acid (also known as PFOA or C8) and related chemicals into groundwater tapped by utility companies in New Jersey townships. Coles' filed a lawsuit against the DuPont Co. that targets the company's releases of a chemical used to make nonstick and stain-resistant products. If suffering the devastation to one's home has not been enough for hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents, then they can now look to their mortgage companies and banks for more evidence of greed. This story will describe what is happening to Louisiana homeowners. |
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