You may be eligible to file a Tylenol Autism ADHD Lawsuit / Acetaminophen Autism ADHD Claim if you or a loved one used Tylenol and/ or Acetaminophen during pregnancy, and your child was subsequently diagnosed with ADHD or Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Legal action is being strategized by our attorneys for Horizon Therapeutics’ failure to properly warn patients of potential hearing loss side effects.
You may be eligible to file a Tepezza Lawsuit if you or a loved one took Tepezza and subsequently suffered permanent hearing loss or tinnitus.
If you or a loved one took Elmiron and subsequently suffered vision loss, blindness, or any other eye injury linked to the prescription drug.
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You may qualify to participate in a 3M Combat Arms Earplugs Lawsuit if:
Over 140,000 Exactech hip, knee and ankle implants have been recalled due to packaging errors that can lead to the breakdown of parts vital to the device’s function.
If you or a loved one suffered injuries from an Exactech implant device, you may be entitled to financial compensation.
You may be eligible to file a Hair Straightener Cancer Lawsuit if you or a loved one used chemical hair straighteners, hair relaxers, or other similar hair products, and subsequently were diagnosed with:
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Over one million people, who were present at Camp Lejeune (North Carolina) between 1953 and 1987, may have been exposed to toxic substances in the water.
The Camp Lejeune Contaminated Water Lawsuit can apply to you, a family member, or a loved one who lived at Camp Lejeune (North Carolina) and suffered health effects from the decades of water contamination that occurred.
Toxic chemicals in Aqueous Film-Forming Foam (AFFF Firefighting Foam) have been linked to numerous types of cancer, including:
AFFF Firefighting Foam lawsuits aim to hold manufacturers accountable for putting peoples’ health at risk.
If you have been exposed to Paraquat and diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease may be eligible to pursue compensation, and entitled to participate in the paraquat lawsuit.
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Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” is an 85-mile stretch of land that runs alongside the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orlean. The corridor is home to more than 150 petrochemical plants and refineries.
Residents of these parishes – St. Charles, St. James, and St. John the Baptist – were once promised jobs; instead, they found their communities tainted by toxic chemical air pollution.
Also nicknamed “Death Alley,” the chemical corridor has the highest rate of air pollution-caused cancer in the United States, nearly 50 times the national average.
Residents report experiencing other severe health problems including decreased life expectancy and increased miscarriage rates.
While it seems that this should be clear ground for legal action such as toxic tort cases, the corporations involved have thrived under pro-business politicians and scant environmental oversight.
Various other government bodies could also be subject to lawsuits given the allegations and scope of the issue.
Cancer alley statistics represent a harrowing reality. Pollution is a part of residents’ everyday life, and chemicals from these industrial plants are likely carcinogenic.
In the 1980s, a New Orleans based doctor described the situation as a “massive human experiment,” in which “large quantities of a wide variety of substances have been discharged into the air and water.” The “experiment” has proved to be destructive.
The University Network for Human Rights (UNHR) presented a report of cancer alley Louisiana research in 2018.
After the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told St. John the Baptist Parish residents living near a Denka/DuPont plant that they faced the highest risk in the nation of developing cancer from air pollution, a team of researchers collected health data from residents living within 2.5 kilometers of the plant.
Findings include:
UNHR researched revealed inexplicably high rates of cancer and other illnesses in residents.
Their findings are consistent with other parishes and chemical plants throughout cancer alley.
While petrochemical pollution affects communities across the chemical corridor, many residents feel like they have little agency in taking on the involved corporations.
Lax environmental oversight has allowed petrochemical industry giants – DuPont, Mosaic Fertilizer, NuCor, NuStar, OxyChem, Plains Pipeline, Shell, and others to skirt responsibility for their damage across the chemical corridor.
Louisiana state and corporate officials downplay the damages and risks outlined by the EPA. Their actions, however, will continue to hurt Louisiana families.
According to an analysis from Propublica, The Advocate, and The Times-Picayune, recent history shows rates of toxic air pollution rising in absolute terms.
Seven of the 10 census tracts in the United States with the highest cancer risk are found in Louisiana cancer alley.
These corporate actions, or lack thereof, have seemingly resulted in multiple wrongful injuries and deaths.
New petrochemical facilities are still being built in communities that are already suffering from some of the nation’s worst air quality.
Cancer alley represents some of the nation’s harshest structural and historical inequities.
The toxic air pollution disproportionally affects Black and low-income residents, with many of the plants concentrated in predominantly Black neighborhoods.
For example, the population of St. James Parish is 49 percent white and 49 percent Black; the majority of plants are concentrated in the fifth district, a district that is 80 percent Black. St. James residents are also fighting against plans to build a new plastics plant on top of the graves of former enslaved African Americans.
The conditions that cancer alley residents face are disproportionally common throughout predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods in the United States.
This phenomenon, known as environmental racism, is due to the fact that minority residents across the country are more likely to live in housing near chemical pollutants.
This correlates with some of the highest death rates and severe health problems such as cancer and heart disease.
While cancer alley environmental racism correlates with income, studies show that across the country, Black Americans with higher incomes are still exposed to toxic air at higher rates than white Americans with lower incomes.
St. James residents and environmental justice activists have organized to fight against the building of a new plastics facility in their community.
Rise St. James, a faith-based grass-roots organization was formed by Sharon Lavigne to fight for environmental and racial justice in the parish.
Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics plans to build their new plant at the site of the burial ground of formerly enslaved people.
Activists also pointed out that the new plant would nearly double the amount of air pollution in the parish. Rise St. James is one of many human and environmental justice groups fighting for residents in cancer alley.
Reversing centuries of environmental and racial injustice can’t happen overnight.
However, residents, activists, politicians, scientists, and legal professionals have begun the fight.
Cancer alleys residents can fight to sue for tangible damages, and might also have a case for emotional distress damages.
Legal battles in chemical corridor Louisiana could set precedence for environmental justice across the country and the world.
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