Critics say DuPont has spent too little on testing Ohio and West Virginia residents for contamination from a chemical used to make Teflon, while paying millions to a lawyer overseeing the testing program. The Columbus Dispatch DuPont spent about $860,000 …
A U.S. jury in Ohio on Jan. 5 ordered DuPont to pay $10.5 million in punitive damages to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical leaked from a Dupont plant, the plaintiff’s lawyer …
A U.S. jury in Ohio ordered DuPont to pay $2 million to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical leaked from one of the company’s plants, according to the plaintiff’s lawyer Robert Bilott. …
A U.S. jury has ordered DuPont to pay $5.1 million to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical used to make Teflon at one of its plants, according to a DuPont spokesman. It …
A federal investigation into a poisonous gas leak that killed four workers at a Houston, Texas-area chemical plant in November found weaknesses and failures in the facility’s safety planning and procedures, officials said Wednesday. The findings were announced in an …
Four workers who died on Nov. 15 at a DuPont and Co. plant in Texas were accidentally asphyxiated by chemicals, the coroner’s office said, another finding that suggests the victims were not wearing full safety equipment. The workers were overcome …
Four workers were killed and one was injured during a hazardous chemical leak at a DuPont industrial plant in suburban Houston, company officials said. The chemical, methyl mercaptan, began leaking from a valve around 4 a.m. in a unit at …
A U.S. federal jury awarded DuPont $919.9 million in damages Wednesday, ruling that a South Korean company stole trade secrets for a fiber used to make Kevlar bulletproof vests. DuPont said the Richmond, Virginia, jury ordered Kolon Industries Inc. to …
DuPont says 3,500 people are enrolled in a medical monitoring program for West Virginia residents who believe exposure from a former zinc-smelting plant increases their risk of illness. Plaintiffs near the Spelter plant won a class-action lawsuit in 2007. The …
A judge says 14 plaintiffs can enroll in a court-administered medical monitoring program even as they sue DuPont over a West Virginia zinc-smelting plant they say made them sick. Plaintiffs got copies of Harrison County Circuit Judge Thomas Bedell’s ruling …
