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Date: 03-06-2010
Case Style: Lester v. Exxon Mobil Corp.
Case Number: 630-402
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Court: District Court, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana
Plaintiff's Attorney: Tim Falcon
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Description: Sixteen Exxon Mobile Corporation workers who claimed they were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation when they were cleaning used oil drilling pipes.
he workers, all former employees of Intracoastal Tubular Services, or ITCO, at a site in Harvey, Louisiana, near New Orleans, claimed that internal Exxon memos showed the Irving, Texas-based company had information about the risk beginning in the 1930s. ITCO, which went out of business in 1992, was found not liable by the jurors yesterday.
Exxon denied it did anything wrong and argued that as none of the plaintiffs claimed radiation-related health problems, they couldn’t recover damages. The company claimed the radiation levels at the Harvey site weren’t high enough to cause illness.
Outcome: Plaintiffs' verdicts ranging from $10,000 to $175,000 totaling $1.2 million.
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