Judge 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 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 ReadingDuPont Forced to Defend 40 Trials a Year Over Deadly Teflon Chemical
Starting in April 2017, DuPont will be forced to defend 40 trials a year from people who developed Kidney or Testicular cancer as a result of their exposure to C8, also known as PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid). (more…)
Continue ReadingSalmonella Poisoning in York, Alabama
Two years ago, after attending a funeral at the Eastern Star Baptist Church in York, Alabama, the mourners sat down to a meal in honor of the deceased. Over the next few days, 67 of the funeral attendees became seriously ill. Those affected became increasingly sick and were hospitalized with...
Continue ReadingDuPont Bound by Settlement Agreement: Six Diseases Linked to C-8 Exposure
An Ohio federal judge ruled Wednesday, December 17, that DuPont will be bound to its contractual agreement and to the results of the DuPont-sponsored scientific panel study which found that C-8 exposure likely causes kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease, ulcerative colitis, high cholesterol, and pregnancy-induced hypertension and preeclampsia. (more…)
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