Environmental & Toxic Tort

Our clients include insurance carriers, large corporations, and small to mid-size businesses with matters ranging from:

• Exposure to alleged carcinogens
• Contamination
• Spill accidents
• Climate concerns including fracking, mining, pollution, and energy resource issues

We provide legal counsel, navigating clients through complex regulatory landscapes and emerging environmental challenges at both national and regional levels.

Our experience extends to defending against claims of harm caused by spills, contamination, or releases of substances. We excel in handling high-stakes litigation involving hazardous substances’ impact on water, land, and air quality, often resulting in demands for financial compensation or remediation efforts. Our attorneys are deeply knowledgeable in toxic tort law, with extensive experience defending against claims related to exposure to benzene, asbestos, lead paint, silica dust, PFAS, ethylene oxide, talc and other substances. Additional matters we defend include exposure in the workplace that often becomes a workers’ compensation case, exposure in a residence or school built near storage tanks, or a home or building with asbestos. We are equipped to assess risk and advise on matters such as warning labels.

We also defend clients against claims that a hazardous substance caused damage to water, land or air and in state or federal government regulatory/clean-up actions and brownfields claims. These complex cases can demand money or remediation to bring the water, land or air back to the state it was in before the alleged exposure. These suits might be brought as toxic tort cases or as premises, product or general liability matters.

We prioritize keeping clients fully informed and engaged throughout the legal process, drawing on decades of experience and a track record of success in both state and federal courts.

Our attorneys speak at national conferences and write frequently on toxic tort and environmental matters.  Our attorneys have experience serving as National Counsel for a manufacturer in benzene exposure death cases and first chair at over 100 bodily injury claim trials of former employees alleging exposure to solvents. Additionally, our attorneys have also served as local counsel for multiple State Court and nationwide Federal Court asbestos claims and as local counsel for death and serious bodily injury claims for a manufacturer of Diacetyl (popcorn lung.)