Environmental, Products Liability, and Toxic Tort Litigation

Nuclear Power Plant: Favorable settlement for Boston Edison in suit regarding possible faulty design or faulty manufacture of nuclear power plant.

Tobacco: Won dismissals of more than 20 tobacco injury lawsuits brought against public relations firm in state and federal court.

Transformer Explosion: Favorable settlement for Boston Edison in suit to recover for damages rising out of explosion of Edison transformer.

Wrongful Death - Crane Manufacturer: Defense verdict, after jury trial, for national crane manufacturer in wrongful death suit involving a construction worker's fall.

Cost Recovery - Groundwater Contamination: Successful defense (at trial and on appeal) of cost-recovery action against Cumberland Farms Dairy for groundwater contamination.

Contamination of Property: Won summary judgment of private suit against Tyco to recover environmental response costs for contamination of property.

Toxic Tort Defense: Won summary judgment for General Electric in suit by forty plaintiffs claiming personal injuries and property damage due to exposure to toxic substances.

Asbestos - National Coordinating Counsel: Served as national coordinating counsel for W. R. Grace in nation-wide asbestos in buildings litigation.

SuperFund Environmental Defense: Defended companies and negotiated favorable settlement in suit by the federal government claiming liability under CERCLA for environmental contamination at a major Super Fund site in New Hampshire.

Insurance Coverage in Environmental Matters: Represented Waste Management, Inc. in lengthy litigation against multiple insurance companies and defended WMI in federal and state court cases involving statutory and common law claims.