March 11, 2022
A South Carolina federal judge ruled that a Florida city can pursue its lawsuit against DuPont and Corteva, which the city claimed were created as spinoffs to help its predecessor dodge liability for poisoning its groundwater with chemicals in a fire suppressant foam.
August 04, 2021
Attorneys representing Wisconsin homeowners who won a $17.5 million settlement from makers of firefighting foam that allegedly contaminated drinking water wells were awarded $5.4 million for their work by a federal judge on Wednesday.
May 18, 2021
Several Wisconsin homeowners have raised objections to a $17.5 million proposed settlement with makers of firefighting foam that resolves claims the foam contaminated drinking wells, including that the attorney fees are too generous for the result.
March 10, 2021
A proposed class that inked a $17.5 million settlement with makers of firefighting foam to resolve claims that the foam contaminated drinking wells is asking the court to award its attorneys $5.8 million, saying one-third of the settlement fund is warranted after two years and hundreds of hours they put into working the case.
January 07, 2021
A Johnson Controls entity agreed to pay $17.5 million to resolve claims from hundreds of homeowners in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, that their water was contaminated by chemicals in a firefighting foam, in what attorneys said Thursday is the first agreement of its kind in sprawling multidistrict litigation.
August 05, 2020
New Mexico has urged a federal court to force the United States Air Force to immediately begin an array of testing for toxic chemicals it has used for decades at two bases in the southwestern state.