Environmental and Toxic Tort

Environmental Law and Toxic Tort Litigation

Toxic torts and environmental claims are firmly ensconced in American litigation. Heightened emphasis on and awareness of the conditions of our environment has resulted in a dramatic rise in environmental-related litigation. In preparation for an era of further increasing claims and litigation, astute companies are focusing on their ability to better understand and manage legal issues tied to the environment. Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial's Environmental and Toxic Tort Practice Group represents a variety of clients, including product manufacturers and suppliers, building contractors, property owners, developers, and managers, energy companies, government entities, insurance companies and numerous other types of entities and individuals.  We are ready and able to help, as national, regional, and coordinating counsel, in a wide variety of claims, including individual lawsuits, class actions, and mass torts.

• Claims involving occupational and non-occupational exposure to a wide variety of toxicants including benzene, asbestos, silica, pesticides, fiberglass, formaldehyde, isocyanates, volatile organic compounds (“VOCs”), solvents, arsenic, heavy metals, polybrominated biphenyls (“PBB”) and polychlorinated (“PCB”).

• Representing flavor manufacturers in diacetyl, 2,3-pentanedione, 2,3-hexanedione, and other allegedly toxic chemicals injuries (popcorn lung) litigation.
• Representing nutritional supplement manufacturers involving allegations of dietary supplement poisoning.
• Representing product manufacturers, suppliers, property owners in carbon monoxide (“CO”) exposure claims.
• Representing government entities and product manufacturers in toxic drinking water exposure lawsuits.
• Representing product suppliers in Chinese drywall litigation.
• Representing diesel engine manufacturers in lawsuits alleging injuries related to exhaust system malfunctioning.
• Representing mining companies in environmental contamination and alleged cancer diagnoses. 
• Claims of personal injury and property damage relating to sick building syndrome and toxic mold.
• Claims involving Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA” or “Superfund”), Oil Pollution Act (“OPA”) and related state litigation and administrative proceedings and defending and prosecuting private contribution actions.
• Leaking Underground Storage Tank (“L.U.S.T.”) compliance and litigation.
• Counseling businesses on state and federal regulatory compliance.
• Counseling businesses and municipalities on Brownfield administrative proceedings.
• Prosecuting and defending environmental insurance coverage claims and declaratory judgment actions.