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Williams, BASF, Talc, Asbestos & Mesothelioma

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The Williams, BASF, Talc, Asbestos & Mesothelioma case documents what many people who may have been exposed to a BASF fraud may face today – past potential direct and secondary exposure to asbestos and mesothelioma. The court ruled in favor of the Plaintiffs.

To find out more on the case, see Case No. 13-1089 – September 3, 2014.

A brief summary of the facts include:

  • Class Action lawsuit alleges that BASF Catalysts LLC and Cahill Gordon & Reindel conspired to prevent thousands of asbestos-injury victims from obtaining fair tort recoveries for their injuries.
  • Decades ago, BASF’s predecessor, Engelhard Corp, discovered that its talc products contained disease-causing asbestos.
  • Plaintiffs allege that, rather than confront the consequences of this discovery, Engelhard, with the help of its attorneys from Cahill, elected to pursue a strategy of denial and deceit. According to the complaint, Engelhard and Cahill collected the tests and reports that documented the presence of asbestos in Engelhard talc and they destroyed or hid them; when new plaintiffs focused on Engelhard’s talc as a possible cause of their disease, Engelhard represented that its talc did not contain asbestos and that no tests had ever said otherwise.
  • As pleaded, this lawsuit concerns years of purported deceit by Engelhard and Cahill. This action is not itself an asbestos injury case, but rather an action about Engelhard and Cahill’s conduct when they confronted asbestos injury cases in state courts around the country.
  • The alleged scheme outlived most of the original plaintiffs, whose diseases have since taken their lives. It did not last forever. Spurred by recent testimony that Engelhard’s talc contained asbestos and that the company knew it, survivors and successors of the original asbestos-injury suits have brought new claims against Cahill and BASF, Engelhard’s successor.
  • The crux of their complaint is that BASF and Cahill defrauded them in their initial lawsuits and caused them to settle or dismiss claims that they would otherwise have pursued.

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