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Teflon Lawsuit- You May Be Eligible For a Settlement CheckTeflon Class Action Lawsuit IF
YOU HAVE TEFLON PRODUCTS, YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR A SETTLEMENT CHECK: •DuPont denies that TEFLON Causes Cancer, stating its products were safe and has vowed to vigorously defend. The Plaintiffs want DuPont Corporation to spend $5 Billion Dollars to replace millions of consumers cookware, pots and pans, and other consumer items and to issue Teflon health warnings in the future.The Plaintiffs also want a monetary class action settlement fund to be created for medical monitoring and screening of consumers who purchased Teflon products in the past.
•Does Teflon Cause Cancer? Teflon was created in the 1934 by DuPont, the American firm which sells it today to make non-stick cookware, and also sells it as a stain repellant coating for clothes and carpets. Teflon products contain perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical which some leading scientists claim is "likely" to cause cancer in humans. "The DuPont Corporation has known for 22 long years that the Teflon products and the PFOA chemicals it is made from cause cancer in rats and other test animals," said Florida-based lawyers Andrew Cluger. The Plaintiffs are taking the position that they do not have to prove that Teflon Causes Cancer, " I only have to prove that DuPont lied in a huge and blatant attempt to continue selling their products into the marketplace." DuPont Corporation denies the claim: "United States Consumers using millions of quality products sold with the Teflon label are safe." a spokesperson said. "Cookware and other products that contain the DuPont Teflon non-stick coatings do not contain PFOA." Recently, the company agreed an out-of-court settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by thousands of people who live near DuPont's West Virginia factory. The residents, who lived along the OH River south of Parkersville, Virginia, claim the corporation had contaminated regional water supplies with PFOA. (The Chemical claimed to be in teflon) They alleged that the chemical has been linked to many birth defects and other health and safety hazards. DuPont Company did eventually agree to pay 50 million dollars in cash to the plaintiffs, plus $22 million dollars in associated legal costs. The company also agreed to spend $10 million dollars to build special water-treatment plants to filter out the chemical PFOA. DuPont did not accept any liability and maintains that the chemical PFOA does not present any dangers to the Consumer market place. Earlier this year, DuPont Incorporated received a legal subpoena from the United States Environmental Crimes' department to hand over any documents about PFOA that they have in their files. That was after agreements were made with DuPont to settle claims by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that DuPont had failed to disclose heath information data about PFOA for over 21 years. |
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DUPONT TEFLON LAWSUITThe Federal Government has reached an agreement with DuPont Corporation to settle allegations the business hid details about the dangers of a toxic chemicals also known as C-8 used in the manufacture of Teflon. Legal Experts for Du Pont and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told an administrative-law judge on November 22 that they had reached a final legal agreement, but that they needed more days to draft the paper work. Judge Barb B. Ganning then gave the parties until January 13th to file the formalized agreements. "The requests for additional days is to help accommodate E.P.A. procedural rules which usually require that the Environmental Appeals Boards review and approve any settlements That are reached by the parties," the EPA stated Wednesday's statement. Officials from both the U.S. EPA and DuPont corporation declined to release terms of the deal. "We are not talking about that particular issue at this time," said Robert Olly, spokeswoman for DuPont's Washington Works plant south of Parkersburg, West Virginia. The EPA alleged that DuPont for over 21 years covered up important information about C8's health effects and about the pollution of water supplies near the company's Washington Works plant. Under federal law, DuPont could face civil fines of more than $300 million for not reporting information that showed C8 posed "substantial risk of injury to health or the environment." The company has set aside $15 million to cover the costs of the lawsuit, according to corporate disclosures filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. DuPont also faces a federal criminal investigation of its actions concerning C8 pollution, the company has told shareholders. Since May, DuPont and the EPA repeatedly have said they were close to a settlement in the civil case, but had one item left to resolve. They would not identify that item. DuPont has maintained that C8, also known as perfluorooctanoic acid or PFOA, has no negative health effects. In February, DuPont settled a class-action lawsuit for $107.6 million brought by Ohio and West Virginia residents in 2001, alleging the Wilmington, Delaware based company intentionally withheld and misrepresented information concerning the nature and extent of the human health threat posed by C8. The EPA in July 2004 filed a complaint that alleged DuPont had caused "widespread contamination" of drinking water supplies near its Washington Works plant. The EPA also alleged DuPont never told the federal government that the company had water tests that showed C-8 in local water supplies in concentrations greater than the company's own internal limits. The EPA alleged DuPont withheld the results of a test showing that at least one pregnant worker from the Washington Works factory had transferred the chemical from her body to her unborn fetus. That information, the EPA said, supported scientific animal tests showing that C8 "moves across the placental barrier." The EPA said that agency efforts to understand C8's health effects "might have been more expeditious" if DuPont had submitted the human test results in 1982. Teflon Lawsuit To BeginVarious Law Firs from
across America will be appearing at the federal courthouse in Des
Moines, Iowa to start proceedings in a class action lawsuit claiming
that the Teflon used to make cooking pans, pots, utensils and other
consumer goods are harmful and dangerous.The
Class action lawyers represent at least 15 class-action lawsuits
files across the U.S., one that is from Des Moines, Iowa. Marcie
Larksburg had numerous Teflon pans and utensils in her kitchen.
She's a plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit that has been filed
in local Des Moines, Iowa District Court. "I had more than
a dozen pots &pans. I am holding on to them, hoping to get them
replaced at the expense of the Dupont Company that made the Teflon,"
she said. Larksburg said she no longer use s Teflon products."She
is not ill or even feeling badly at this point. We are talking about
the products themselves and the great potential for it to make people
very, very sick," Stephen Mandroson , one of Larkburg's class-action
attorneys, has stated. DuPont Corporation, the company that manufactures
Teflon products said the potential just is not there. The company's
Web pages address the Teflon lawsuits, stating "contrary to
the allegations, there is no reliable evidence that demonstrates
that there is danger to the American consumer from using Teflon-coated
pots and pans under normal kitchen cooking conditions. Cookware
coated with Teflon is completely safe when used according to the
directions. In fact, over the past 41 years and running, there is
only one documented case of a minor health problem as a result of
non-stick products." Mandroson's argument will be at the center
of the class action lawsuits. A federal judge will be the one to
decide whether Teflon is harmful to the American Consumer. "The
sciences indicate that there is something that people need to be
concerned about with regard to the active chemicals in Teflon Products,"
Mandroson said. The decision made in court could affect millions
of consumers across the United States. "I think it will ultimately
effect anyone in North America that has a Teflon related cooking
product.". Attorneys want DuPont to pay for replacements for
anyone who bought Teflon-covered cooking utensils.
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