BENZENE & EMERGING TOXIC TORTS LITIGATION

North Carolina Parties Disagree on What Causal Agent is At Issue

January 29, 2009

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Frank Motion
Frank Reply
Frank Response
Kopstein Motion
Kopstein Reply
Kopstein Response
Rose Motion
Rose Reply
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Spencer/Natelson Motion
Stopford Motion
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Stopford Response
Summary Judgment Reply
Summary Judgment Response

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Parties remaining in a North Carolina benzene case have exchanged briefing on a number of issues, including expert admissibility and sufficiency of the claims. Stromberg, et al. v. Ashland Inc., et al., No. 07-332 (M.D. N.C.).

In a round of Jan. 23 reply briefs filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, Ashland Inc. defended its attack on the plaintiffs' experts, saying in part that the plaintiffs wrongfully characterize the causal agent in this case as benzene when it is in fact toluene.

The plaintiffs had defended its experts' methodologies in a …

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