Court Dismisses Gasoline Case for Lack of General and Specific Causation

SPOKANE, Wash. -- A federal court in Washington has dismissed a case in which the plaintiff claimed that exposure to benzene in gasoline caused his injuries, concluding that the "case does not offer indirect evidence of sufficient amount, specificity, and reliability to overcome the lack of direct evidence of causation." Henricksen, et al. v. ConocoPhillips Co., et al., No. 07-224 (E.D. Wash.).

In the Feb. 11 opinion, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington noted that none of the plaintiffs' experts addressed the prospect that the plaintiff's acute myelogenous leukemia had no known cause and further that …