Environmental and Toxic Tort
Specialists in Toxic Tort Litigation
Weinberg, Wheeler, Hudgins, Gunn & Dial's Environmental Law Practice Group helps clients cope with an increasingly complex maze of federal and state environmental
legislation.
Toxic tort and environmental related claims are firmly ensconsed as a part of American civil litigation. With the recent heightened emphasis on and awareness of our environment manifested in the "Green" movement, WWHGD expects to see a dramatic in environmental related litigation. In preparation for an era of more claims and litigation, astute companies are augmenting their abilities to understand and manage environmental legal issues.
Environmental Law Cases and Clients
The Environmental Law Practice Group has strong experience in:
- Representing developers, contractors, property owners and managers and landlords in personal injury and property damage actions alleging sick building syndrome, building related illness and toxic mold.
- Representing asbestos product manufacturers, suppliers and contractors in courts throughout the country, including serving as regional trial counsel for a major manufacturer of asbestos containing products.
- Serving as national coordinating defense counsel for a leading building products manufacturer regarding formaldehyde personal injury and property damage claims.
- Representing property owners and managers in child lead poisoning claims.
- Representing contractors and property owners in claims involving alleged occupational and non-occupational exposure to benzene, pesticides, fiberglass, formaldehyde, isocyanates, VOC's, arsenic, tungsten cobalt and other heavy metals, TCE and other solvents, PBB and PCB.
- Defending employers in OSHA administrative proceedings.
- Defending CERCLA, RCRA and related state litigation and administrative proceedings, and defending and prosecuting private contribution actions.
- Serving clients requiring L.U.S.T. compliance and litigation.
- Counseling businesses in state and federal regulatory compliance.
- Counseling businesses and municipalities in Brownfield administrative proceedings.
- Prosecuting and defending environmental insurance coverage claims and declaratory judgment actions.
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