Rohm and Haas Cancer Link

The firm is handling several matters against chemicals giant Rohm and Haas.

Spring House Pennsylvania Facility

The firm represents two research chemists (click name to see either the Lange or Hsu Complaint), who contracted rare brain cancer at the company's Spring House research facility. Altogether there are at least 12 employees of that one facility who all contracted malignant brain tumors. The firm also has filed a class action (click here to see Class Action Complaint) seeking medical monitoring costs for nearly 6,000 employees of the Spring House research facility to screen these individuals for brain cancer. Rohm and Haas acknowledges that the incidence of brain cancer at the Spring House facility is twice the rate in the general population. Documents obtained in the litigation show company officials acknowledging the brain cancer rate is even higher. All three actions claim that the company is significantly underestimating the incidence of brain cancers among its research staff.


Ringwood Illinois Facility

A civil action has been filed in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (click here to see Complaint) on behalf of next-door neighbors in a lakeside residential community in McHenry, Illinois, about 50 miles north of Chicago.

There are 16 individuals all together, all next-door neighbors, who have brain cancers or brain tumors that are believed to be caused by toxic contamination of air and groundwater by two manufacturing companies located about one mile north of McCullom Lake Village. The plaintiffs in the actions filed claim that Rohm and Haas (formerly Morton Chemical) and Modine Manufacturing Company are legally responsible for their brain cancers because of years of toxic chemical dumping and spills that led to contamination with known cancer-causing compounds, including vinyl chloride and trichloroethene. The firm has also filed a class action (click here to see Class Action Complaint) on behalf of residents of McCullom Lake Village, seeking medical monitoring and damages for lost property value, water purification costs and other expenses.

For more information and to view documents involved in this ongoing litigation, please click one of the links below:

Spring House Pennsylvania Litigation  

Ringwood Illinois Litigation