complex tort litigation | ENVIRoNMENTAL TOXIC TORTS
Righting environmental harms today and for tomorrow.
When powerful companies contaminate your water or soil, expose you to dangerous chemicals, or damage your property due to environmental negligence, we are committed to helping you secure a measure of justice.
Overview
We represent individuals across the United States who have been injured due to exposure to toxic or potentially toxic substances, including purportedly safe substances that may have been released into the environment at toxic levels or substances that may have been improperly labelled. We have dealt with numerous types of chemicals, lead and other alloys, and chemical compound derivatives in our cases. We have extensive experience working with state and federal environmental protection agencies to address toxins in drinking water, ground water, soil, and air. We also work with subject matter experts on scientific, environmental, medical, and property value issues.
We are frequently appointed by courts as lead or co-lead counsel to oversee large class or mass actions. Our experience includes handling two of the largest water contamination class action lawsuits in the United States—In re Flint Water Cases, and Carey, et al., v. E.I. DuPont De Nemours and Co., Inc. We have also successfully litigated toxic tort mass actions in jury trials.
We litigate all types of environmental toxic tort lawsuits, including class actions, before juries and appellate courts, including those that involve:
- Contamination of water, including drinking and ground water
- Pesticide and herbicide aerial drift
- Chemical exposure, waste spills and seepage
- Landfill, dumpsite, power plant, industrial odor, gas, ash and dust drift
If you or a loved one has been injured and you believe you may have a legal claim, please contact us at (877) 515-7955 or use the CONTACT US BOX BELOW.
Current Cases
Cape Fear River, NC Water Contamination Litigation: Carey v. The Chemours Company FC, LLC et al.
Cape Fear River Contaminated Water Litigation (E.D.N.C.): Cohen Milstein is Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel in a series of five putative environmental toxic tort class actions filed against E.I. DuPont de Nemours Company and The Chemours Company for knowingly discharging PFAS, such as GenX, and other “forever chemicals” into the Cape Fear River, one of North Carolina’s principal drinking water sources.
Flint Water Crisis Class Action Litigation
On November 10, 2021, Judge Judith E. Levy of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granted final approval of a landmark $626.25 million settlement resulting from the class action and individual lawsuits brought on behalf of more than 90,000 Flint residents and businesses against multiple governmental defendants, including the State of Michigan, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), and individual defendants, including former Governor Rick Snyder, for their roles in re-directing toxic levels of contaminated water from the Flint River into the City’s drinking water in an effort to save money and their subsequent efforts to try to cover up the crisis.
Miramar Water Litigation
If you believe your home was damaged due to the negligence of the City of Miramar and the malpractice of its consultants, please call us at 561-515-1400 or complete our contact form. On April 5, 2023, Cohen Milstein filed Antezana, et al. v. Kimley Horn, et al. ( Cir. Crt. Broward Cnty.), an environmental toxic […]
Past Cases
Quinteros, et al. v. DynCorp, et al.
Quinteros, et al. v. DynCorp, et al. (D.D.C.): Cohen Milstein represented over 2,000 Ecuadorian farmers and their families who suffered physical injuries and property damage as a result of aerial spraying of toxic herbicides on or near their land by DynCorp, a U.S. government contractor. A bellwether trial on behalf of the first six Ecuadorian clients came to a conclusion in April 2017, when the ten-person jury unanimously determined that DynCorp was responsible for the conduct of the pilots with whom it had subcontracted to conduct the chemical spraying after April 2003. This resolution allowed for a successful case settlement.