The defense of environmental claims, including toxic tort, environmental contamination and chemical exposure cases, is a significant part of our practice. Campbell Campbell Edwards & Conroys' Environmental Litigation team represents clients in state and federal enforcement proceedings involving hazardous waste and hazardous materials, toxic substances, and clean air and clean water regulations. We represent oil companies, manufacturers of hazardous chemicals and toxic solvents, companies that use hazardous chemicals in the manufacture of their products, owners and operators of properties alleged to be contaminated, lenders who have secured interests in property alleged to be contaminated, distributors of food products claimed to be tainted, property owners in lead and carbon monoxide exposure cases, companies which incorporate or sell asbestos containing products, and insurance companies in coverage disputes. These cases involve claims brought under both state and federal environmental statutes, as well as in tort. Our experience also extends to personal injury claims involving exposure to hazardous materials.
Demonstrated Experience
In asbestos cases Campbell Campbell Edwards & Conroy serves as lead trial counsel for Ford Motor Company for frictions products cases filed in New England. Most of these cases involve mesothelioma, and our attorneys have developed substantial working knowledge of toxicology, epidemiology, environmental medicine, occupational medicine, preventive medicine, industrial hygiene, pathology, and engineering.
For over a decade the firm represented Monsanto in In re Paoli Railroad Yard PCB Litigation, class actions brought in both state and federal court in which approximately 300 plaintiffs who either worked or lived adjacent to the Paoli Railroad Yard alleged that they suffered from a variety of illnesses as a result of exposure to PCBs on the site. The cases resulted in three landmark decisions on the admissibility of expert testimony in toxic tort litigation that remain the leading guideposts within the Third Circuit.
We also represented Monsanto in a high profile putative class action brought by several former workers at General Electric’s Pittsfield, Massachusetts, plant who alleged they or their decedents had developed cancer because of on-the-job exposures to PCBs manufactured and supplied by Monsanto. The firm successfully opposed class certification, obtained summary judgment on all but one of the individual claims, and postured the remaining claim for settlement at a fraction of the anticipated cost of defense.
Campbell Campbell Edwards & Conroy also represented Mobil Corporation in a groundwater contamination case brought in the United States District Court in Providence, Rhode Island, by a private school alleging that petroleum and waste products from an abutting service station had migrated onto its property, impairing its use and value.
Results:
- Featured Case: Jury Finds for Oil Companies in $70M Ground Water Contamination Remediation Case
- Featured Case: Ground Contamination by Heating Oil Prompts Claims
