Missouri Welder Files Amended Complaint to ‘Add Counts and Clarify Original Complaint’

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – A Missouri woman has filed an amended lawsuit in federal court, maintaining that she suffered from irreversible neurological illness as a result of exposure to manganese.

In the March 10 amended lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, plaintiff Janice Emerson asserts failure to warn strict liability and concert of action, fraudulent intentional misrepresentation, fraudulent concealment and conspiracy, violation of Missouri Merchandise Protection Act (MMPA), violation of Missouri State code of Regulations (CSR), breach of express warranty, breach of implied warranty, vicarious liability, negligence per se, and failure of …