Cabot Renews Call for Showing of Harm After Landowners’ Drop Personal Injury Claims

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. is still asking that plaintiffs claiming injury from hydraulic fracking make a prima facie showing of harm despite the filing of an amended complaint in which personal injury and medical monitoring claims have been dropped.

Cabot (NYSE: COG) says the amended complaint is further evidence that plaintiffs are making generic damage claims raised by other area residents in another lawsuit against gas drillers.

Cabot challenged the claims made by Frederick J. and Debra A. Roth in a July 20 Lone Pine motion, asking the U.S. District Court for the Middle District …