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DuPont C8 Environmental

Chemours Throws DuPont Under the Bus In Court Filings

July 3rd, 2019 | Environmental

The tangled DuPont PFAS web continues to unravel, and it appears that the company just has not learned their lesson. A recent article by North Carolina Policy Watch reveals: “DuPont could have permanently stopped discharging perfluorinated compounds – PFAS – from its Fayetteville (NC) Works plant into the Cape Fear River nine years ago, but […]Read More

3M Settles Alabama Drinking Water Contamination Lawsuit for $35 Million

April 30th, 2019 | Dupont c8

A north Alabama utility that provides drinking water to thousands of people has reached a settlement in a lawsuit against 3M over chemical contamination. The West Morgan-East Limestone Water and Sewer Authority sued to make 3M pay for a new filtration system to remove dangerous industrial chemicals that 3M produced for decades along the Tennessee […]Read More

DuPont C-8 “The Devil We Know” Documentary Now Streaming on Netflix

January 23rd, 2019 | Environmental

A new documentary available for streaming on Netflix, “The Devil We Know,” is a terrifying and eye-opening look into one of Cory Watson Attorney’s recent success stories – the DuPont C-8 litigation. Cory Watson Attorneys took a leading role in the C-8 litigation involving chemicals that DuPont used in Teflon production. Cory Watson Principal Jon […]Read More

DuPont Agrees to $670 Million Settlement to Resolve C-8 Claims

February 22nd, 2017 | Dupont c8

In a settlement announced last week, DuPont and Chemours Co. have agreed to pay $670.7 million to settle over 3,500 lawsuits. The plaintiffs claim they were injured by exposure to the chemical C-8, which has been linked to the following injuries: kidney cancer, testicular cancer, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and high cholesterol. BRIEF […]Read More

Jury Returns Punitive Damages Verdict of $10.5 Million Against DuPont

January 6th, 2017 | Environmental

On Wednesday, the jury which in December awarded $2 million in compensatory damages to Mr. Kenneth Vigneron heard arguments by Vigneron’s attorneys about why E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company should be punished further for its decades of knowingly releasing the chemical C8 into the Ohio River.  The jury had previously determined that DuPont […]Read More

Jury Delivers $2 Million Verdict in Cancer Case Against DuPont

December 21st, 2016 | Environmental

An Ohio jury has ordered DuPont to pay Kenneth Vigneron $2 million dollars plus punitive damages after Vigneron contracted testicular cancer linked to water contaminated by a DuPont plant that manufactured Teflon. Cory Watson attorney Nina Towle Herring serves on the legal team representing the man who held DuPont accountable for the water contamination that […]Read More

Testimony Shows DuPont Lied to Community About C-8 Link to Cancer

June 28th, 2016 | Environmental

A former DuPont employee, Dawn D. Jackson, thought she was telling the truth about C8 to her Ohio River Valley neighbors in 2000. Jackson was told by her employer that the chemical used to make Teflon was not a cancer risk to humans and that it was just as safe as “Dishwashing Soap.” This information, […]Read More

DuPont Ordered to Pay $1.6 Million in First C8 Contamination Case Settlement

October 8th, 2015 | Environmental

A federal jury in Ohio returned a verdict on October 7 in a lawsuit against the DuPont Company, finding DuPont responsible for leaking the toxic chemical, C8, into the water supply around its West Virginia plant. DuPont will have to pay $1.6 million to Carla Bartlett for negligence and emotional distress, stemming from the kidney […]Read More

DuPont Contamination Verdict Nullified

July 2nd, 2015 | Environmental

A Louisiana federal judge recently nullified a verdict in favor of DuPont Co. because the worldwide chemical giant withheld evidence. The suit stems from whistleblower claims in a False Claims Act suit that DuPont Co. did not tell federal regulators about certain leaks of cancer causing chemicals at of one of its plants. In her […]Read More

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