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Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Lawsuits

Camp Lejeune Water Contamination Lawsuits

Congress recently passed The Camp Lejeune Justice Act (“CLJA”), a law creating a new cause of action for those injured by exposure to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune in between 1953 to 1987. Over the course of four decades two of the eight wells at North Carolina’s...

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EPA Proposes Ban on Chrysotile Asbestos

EPA Proposes Ban on Chrysotile Asbestos

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed following 70 other countries by banning the most common form of asbestos, chrysotile, from import and use here. Through most of the twentieth century asbestos was used in building and industrial...

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Abbott Recalls Powdered Baby Formula

Abbott Recalls Powdered Baby Formula

Lots of Similac, Alimentum and EleCare Recalled Abbott has recalled several powder baby formula products – Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare – after four infants were hospitalized for bacterial infections. The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advises consumers...

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