Date: 11-07-2022

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Thomas Matheny v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company, et al.

Case Number: 2:22-cv-00320

Judge: Thomas E. Johnston

Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia (Kanawha County)

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Description: Charleston, West Virginia personal injury lawyer represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a negligence theory claiming to have suffered more than $75,000 in injuries and/or damages as a direct result of acts, errors and omissions by Defendant in the operation a chemical plant.

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This case is part of the multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) In Re: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours
and Company C-8 Personal Injury Litigation (“C-8 Personal Injury MDL”). The individual
plaintiffs in the C-8 Personal Injury MDL are all part of a class (“Leach Class”) certified nearly
twenty years ago in a West Virginia state court. The Leach Class consists of approximately
80,000 residents of Ohio and West Virginia who drank water contaminated by releases of a
chemical referred to as C-8 from DuPont’s Washington Works facility near Parkersburg, West
Virginia.


The elements of a personal injury claim are: (1) Failure on the part of the Defendant to exercise due care, (2) damages and/or injuries caused to Plaintiff, and (3) a direct casual relationship between 1 and 2.

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Outcome: NOTIFICATION FROM JUDICIAL PANEL ON MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION re: Transfer Order MDL 2433. (kew)

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