Rohm and Haas Cancer Link
The firm is handling several matters against chemicals giant Rohm and Haas.Spring House Pennsylvania Facility
The firm represents a number of 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 15 employees of that one facility who all contracted malignant brain tumors. The firm also represents a former contractor who worked at Spring House and then died of brain cancer. Rohm and Haas acknowledges that the incidence of brain cancer at the Spring House facility is at least 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
This litigation pending in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania began when three next door neighbors in a small community in McHenry, Illinois, about 50 miles north of Chicago, were diagnosed with malignant brain cancer all within the same year. Since then, a significant number of residents and former residents have been diagnosed with brain tumors.
There are now 30 individuals all together who have filed actions relating to brain cancers or brain tumors that are believed to be caused by toxic contamination of air and groundwater. The source of contamination and exposures to vinyl chloride (a known human carcinogen) is a Morton Chemical chemicals manufacturing facility. Morton was acquired by Rohm and Haas in 1999. Rohm and Haas was acquired by dow Chemical in the Spring of 2009. To see a copy of the Complaints, click here.
The firm has also filed a class action (click here to see Class Action Complaint and Reply Brief in Support of Class Certification) on behalf of residents of McCullom Lake Village, seeking medical monitoring and damages for lost property value.
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