Mechanism Or Causation? The New Battle Over Benzene Metabolites

photo-1Howard E. Jarvis is a partner in the firm of Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC, in Knoxville, Tennessee. His primary areas of practice include toxic tort, environmental, product liability and insurance defense litigation. In his practice, he has served as either lead counsel or lead co-counsel in toxic tort and environmental litigation in Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, California, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New York and Florida. On behalf of several petrochemical companies he has handled several multi-plaintiff toxic tort cases in various jurisdictions. He has argued cases in the Tennessee Supreme Court and Tennessee …