[CPEO-BIF] Lawyer thrown off Armstrong TCE cases, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lawyer Thrown Off Toxic Chemical Cases Had Client Pay His Six-Figure Punishment


John O’Brien, editor of Legal Newsline and the Pennsylvania Record
Forbes
September 18, 2018




More than 30 lawsuits blame Pennsylvania-based Armstrong World Industries, once Lancaster's largest employer, for exposing workers to chemicals that led to sickness, suffering and death. But they’ve been pursued by a lawyer who, a judge says, “made a mockery of the law” and whose clients are paying, figuratively and literally, for his actions.

This month, a Lancaster County judge took the remarkable step of disqualifying Pittsburgh-area attorney George Chada from his representation of former AWI workers and their families claiming brain damage and cancer from a solvent known as TCE. These lawsuits made local headlines but years later have barely progressed, instead becoming twisted into an issue of whether Chada was competently handling them.

The compensation the families are seeking is possibly as far away now as it was when their cases were filed – if they end up with anything at all.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.forbes.com/sites/legalnewsline/2018/09/18/lawyer-thrown-off-toxic-chemical-cases-had-client-pay-his-six-figure-punishment/#7a5a2931535e

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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