May 17, 2016
Teflon maker DuPont expressed serious reservations Monday about a judge's recent decision to allow the lead plaintiffs' lawyers in a massive multidistrict litigation over a pollution-related cancer cluster to unilaterally select 40 cases for trial beginning in May 2017.
May 10, 2016
A man suing DuPont in multidistrict litigation alleging the company contaminated drinking water that caused cancer told an Ohio federal judge Monday that the chemical giant can't split his trial this month into two phases, saying the court has rejected DuPont's attempt to fully bifurcate a trial in a similar case.
May 02, 2016
Chemical giant DuPont couldn't convince a federal judge to head off a trial later this month on whether a case of testicular cancer was caused by the company's dumping a Teflon ingredient into waterways, one of many similar suits brought by Ohio and West Virginia residents.
April 14, 2016
Chemical manufacturer DuPont asked an Ohio federal court on Wednesday to split a man's trial into two phases, in a lawsuit in multidistrict litigation alleging the company contaminated drinking water, which the man says led to his testicular cancer.
March 23, 2016
An Ohio federal judge on Tuesday granted post-judgment interest on a $1.6 million verdict in favor of a woman who developed kidney cancer in the first trial in multidistrict litigation over water contamination by DuPont Co., but said that she wasn't owed prejudgment interest.
February 23, 2016
Chemical manufacturer DuPont on Wednesday sought a pre-trial victory in a man's lawsuit in multidistrict litigation alleging the company contaminated drinking water, telling an Ohio federal judge that the man has failed to prove that the company caused his testicular cancer.
February 18, 2016
An Ohio federal judge on Wednesday upheld a jury's $1.6 million verdict in favor of a woman who developed kidney cancer in the first trial in multidistrict litigation over alleged water contamination by DuPont, denying the company's bid for a new trial and ruling that the trial was not unfair.
February 05, 2016
An Ohio federal judge has granted priority to 260 cancer lawsuits over thousands of other cases in multidistrict litigation over DuPont Co.'s alleged contamination of drinking water, setting an aggressive schedule for four trials per month beginning in April 2017, according to an order made public this week.
October 07, 2015
DuPont Co. owes a woman $1.6 million for negligence and emotional distress, the Ohio federal jury hearing the first trial in multidistrict litigation alleging the company contaminated drinking water found in a verdict posted Wednesday.
October 06, 2015
An Ohio federal judge on Monday largely denied DuPont Co.'s bid to limit evidence in the possible punitive damages phase of a trial over alleged harm from the chemical giant's contamination of drinking water, rejecting suggestions that the information is irrelevant.