Five years ago patients and clients who associated adult onset asthma with chemical exposure found they were unable to prove medical causation and were precluded from pursuing their right to recover for significant injuries caused by others. This is no longer the case as a result of 1985 medical research by Brooks and others identifying […]
Corporate Manipulation of Scientific Evidence Linking Chemical Exposures to Human Disease: A Case in Point — Cigarette Science at Johns Hopkins
This article was researched, authored and published by Rachel’s Environment & Health Weekly, October 19, 1995 edition. Rachel’s deserves your support for its commitment to a national environmental policy which makes health risks to people a national priority and for its commitment to public education. Rachel’s not only allows the re-distribution of its research and […]
Cancer in the Electronics Industry
Anyone who has worked in semi-conductor manufacturing or electronics assembly industries and who has been diagnosed with cancer, or who has children with birth defects, may have undiscovered defective products claims. We presently represent nearly 100 former employees of IBM employed at the Fishkill, New York IBM manufacturing plant who have cancer and whose families […]
Proving Toxic Torts: A Primer on Pharmacokinetics
While the key to preparing and understanding a toxic tort case is working with a reputable toxicologist, once it is determined that a given chemical is in fact the cause of the victim’s injury or death, the services of an expert in pharmacokinetics are required. Pharmacokinetics studies the way animals absorb, distribute, metabolize and eliminate […]
IBM: Cancer and Birth Defects at San Jose, Fishkill and Essex Junction
Alexander Law Group, LLP, LLP represents 150 former IBM “clean room” workers at San Jose and Fishkill, New York who have cancer or whose families include children with severe birth defects. The first case is scheduled for trial on January 10, 2001 against IBM and its chemical suppliers. One of our clients worked in Materials […]