Plaintiffs and Mold Litigation

The goal of a plaintiff in a toxic tort personal injury claim is to link a particular illness to a specific exposure. In mold exposure cases, there are building occupants who have been exposed to mold spores and have genuinely developed an illness or who have genuinely exacerbated an underlying medical condition. Mold does cause allergic rhinitis and asthma.(1) Individuals with documented temporary exacerbation arising from a particular exposure typically find that their symptoms resolve once they are removed from the environment. For litigation purposes, typically, those cases lack any permanent personal injury damages.

Most plaintiffs in mold-exposure cases …