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In re: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company C-8 Personal Injury Litigation

  1. January 22, 2021

    DuPont, Others Commit $4B To 'Forever Chemical' Liabilities

    DuPont de Nemours, Corteva and the Chemours Co. said Friday they have jointly committed $4 billion to cover liabilities for their past use of toxic substances known as "forever chemicals" and will pay $83 million to settle multidistrict litigation in Ohio over the pollutant.

  2. October 18, 2019

    DuPont Wants Fresh Shot At Defense In Ohio Cancer Cases

    DuPont on Thursday fought to preserve its right to use defense theories that plaintiffs are attempting to block in multidistrict litigation about the company's alleged improper dumping of toxic chemicals.

  3. February 13, 2017

    DuPont, Chemours Agree To Settle Teflon Cases For $671M

    DuPont Co. and Chemours Co., the company the chemical giant spun off in 2015, agreed to pay $671 million to resolve multidistrict litigation in Ohio federal court alleging DuPont improperly dumped cancer-causing chemicals, the companies announced Monday.

  4. January 25, 2017

    Cancer Survivor Rebuts DuPont's Bid To Split Up Teflon Trial

    The cancer survivor leading the second of 40 trials expected this year in multidistrict litigation against DuPont over water contamination urged an Ohio federal judge Tuesday to keep together the compensatory and punitive damages phases of his trial, despite the company's call for a split.

  5. January 23, 2017

    Punitive Awards Test DuPont's Plan To Shed Cancer Liabilities

    When DuPont spun off its Chemours business more than a year ago, it did so in part to shed potential cancer liabilities caused by decades' worth of Teflon manufacturing waste. But as the legal bill grows, experts believe that the punitive damages awarded in recent trials present grounds for the spinoff to fight back.

  6. January 13, 2017

    DuPont Can't Ax Cancer Causation Claim On Eve Of C8 Trial

    A federal judge on Thursday rejected DuPont's efforts to excise a key legal argument from an imminent trial over Ohio water contamination caused by decades' worth of Teflon manufacturing waste, the second of 40 trials expected this year in the multidistrict litigation.

  7. January 04, 2017

    DuPont Urges Jury To Forgo Punitives After $2M Verdict

    Industrial conglomerate DuPont urged an Ohio federal jury Wednesday not to add punitive damages to the $2 million the panel recently awarded a cancer survivor who drank and bathed for years in water dirtied by the company's Teflon manufacturing, disagreeing that decades of inaction constituted malice.

  8. December 21, 2016

    DuPont Owes $2M In Teflon Testicular Cancer Trial, Jury Says

    An Ohio jury on Wednesday hit DuPont with a $2 million compensatory verdict in the first of about 40 upcoming trials alleging the chemical company dumped toxins into drinking water and sickened local residents, also opening the door for punitive damages.

  9. November 30, 2016

    DuPont Judge Eyeing Multi-Plaintiff Trials In Teflon Cases

    The judge overseeing a multidistrict litigation against DuPont over dumping of an allegedly cancer-causing former Teflon ingredient may begin to bundle cases for trial, a practice corporations often resist, documents revealed Wednesday.

  10. November 08, 2016

    DuPont Can't Put Ex-EPA Chief On Stand In Teflon Trial

    An Ohio federal judge barred DuPont Co. on Monday from using a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head as a key witness in next week's trial over whether its dumping of a former Teflon ingredient caused an Ohio resident's cancer.

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