Report Shows Alabama, Other Southern States Have Some of Nation’s Poorest Urban Air Quality
A recent U.S. News report showed a stark contrast between the safety levels of drinking water versus air quality in southern states such as Alabama and Tennessee. Alabama and Tennessee ranked 2nd and 4th, respectively, in drinking water quality, while neighboring states Georgia and Mississippi also ranked well – 6th...
Continue ReadingEarth Day Q&A With Attorneys Jon Conlin and Akira Watson
Each year, Earth Day reminds us that our planet must always come first. Fortunately, Cory Watson Attorneys understand that. Our attorneys fight diligently against corporations that are producing and exhausting large amounts of toxic chemicals that not only directly harm our planet, but our people. Principal Attorney Jon C. Conlin...
Continue ReadingJudge Rules in Favor of Cory Watson Clients to Award $40+ Million in Damages
Cory Watson has always been honored to stand up for our clients by taking on the big corporations who wronged them. Our experienced attorneys understand that oftentimes the fight for justice is a marathon—not a sprint—and that it sometimes requires a jury to make a defendant appreciate the full extent...
Continue ReadingChemours Throws DuPont Under the Bus In Court Filings
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...
Continue Reading3M Settles Alabama Drinking Water Contamination Lawsuit for $35 Million
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...
Continue ReadingDuPont C-8 “The Devil We Know” Documentary Now Streaming on Netflix
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...
Continue ReadingIs There a Listeria Outbreak in Birmingham?
Listeria poisoning, also known as listeriosis, is a life-threatening food poisoning caused by eating foods contaminated with the listeria monocytogenes bacteria. Listeria poisoning can cause severe illness or even death if not diagnosed and properly treated. Pregnant women, young children, the elderly and people with compromised immune systems are more...
Continue ReadingJury Returns Punitive Damages Verdict of $10.5 Million Against DuPont
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...
Continue ReadingJury Delivers $2 Million Verdict in Cancer Case Against DuPont
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...
Continue ReadingFreeman Jury Awards Plaintiff $5.1 Million in Compensatory Damages
On July 6, after a month of witness testimony and evidence examinations in the Columbus, Ohio Courtroom of Judge Sargus, arguments concluded in the second C8 MDL bellwether trial against DuPont, David Freeman v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. During the closing arguments, Mr. Freeman’s lawyers asked jurors...
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