Our national environmental and toxic/mass tort practice group spearheaded by Michael Hamilton, John Mullen and Kim Hollaender handles matters throughout the United States with current active matters in Alabama, Colorado, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Members of this group have extensive experience as both coverage counsel and representing insurers on a wide variety of issues. This NLdH team includes a former environmental prosecutor, an environmental engineer and several former in-house environmental litigators at nationally prominent insurers.
NLdH attorneys regularly advise and represent clients on a wide range of environmental coverage issues involving long-tail exposure, trigger, number of occurences, application of SIRs, deductibles, allocation and the applicability of various exclusions such as known loss and absolute pollution. Additionally, we advise clients on matters related to pollution insurance products, environmental impairment liability policies, reinsurance and long-term liability issues. We've represented clients in matters related to petroleum products, benzene, coal-bed methane, Teflon, mold, metal working fluids and asbestos contaminations.
Because NLdH addresses environmental matters from the coverage and defense perspectives, our attorneys are able to provide our clients with comprehensive advice and experience that reflect the firm's sophisticated and cutting-edge practice.
Toxic Tort
The attorneys at NLdH have many years of experience defending clients in trial and appellate courts throughout the United States. From global industrial manufacturers to suppliers and installers, we defend clients efficiently and aggressively. We have successfully litigated cases involving a wide array of allegedly toxic substances including:
· Asbestos
· PCE/TCE
· Silica
· Lead paint
· Dioxin
· Coal tar
· MTBE
· Mold
· Benzene
· Diacetyl
· Metal working fluids
We have the experience and resources to aggressively challenge causation claims on an individual basis prior to and during trial. Our detailed involvement in the science and the medicine underlying these cases provides a strong foundation for effective, results-driven litigation. The cases we defend commonly involve allegations of cancer, birth defects, major respiratory and organ diseases, as well as more acute injuries and illnesses allegedly resulting from inhalation, dermal, and ingestion exposures. We can provide clients facing mass filings with efficient and highly effective representation as coordinating counsel.
Please contact John Mullen, Mike Hamilton or Kim Hollaender in our Philadelphia office for more information.
