After years of facing illnesses and deaths that veterans were convinced were linked to toxic water contamination at the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps base in North Carolina, they finally can seek justice.
A new law that recently took effect allows victims of the water contamination to seek compensation from the government in federal court, a victory in a years-long battle on the part of...
Exatech Inc. has expanded its hip recall to include another 40,000 components that may be defective following an earlier recall of nearly 250,000 knee, hip, and ankle replacements over the past year because of problems with polyethylene liners. These recalls have led to multiple lawsuits over the defective devices as patients find themselves facing the possibility of revision surgery,...
Brian Lilla, an award-winning filmmaker, moved to the Napa Valley wine region to raise his children in a healthy environment. But as he saw Roundup applied vigorously to the vineyards spread throughout the area, he “learned how toxic wine country is.”
“I didn’t want to leave Napa because I have children,” Lilla said in an interview with the nonprofit publication Capital &...
Camp Lejeune in North Carolina is the largest Marine Corps base on the East Coast. It is also home to one of the worst public water contamination disasters in history.
People suffering from cancer and other serious health conditions who lived or worked at Camp Lejeune from 1953 to 1987 may have been exposed to contaminated water. Here are answers to the five most asked questions about...
Air pollution from traffic is a fact of life in much of the United States and the world. In fact, the American Lung Association says a whopping 40 percent of Americans breathe in unhealthy air — 135 million people. Although carbon dioxide is the chemical most often associated with traffic-related air pollution, benzene is also a chemical seen in this smog. And recent research shows that...
As private equity firms increasingly pour investment money into home health, nursing homes, mental health centers, and hospices, federal regulators are taking notice. As a result, these profit-driven organizations are increasingly being held responsible for violating statutes like the False Claims Act, as well as SEC regulations.
About 30% to 50% of home health and hospice transactions...
Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson has used a controversial legal maneuver known as the Texas two-step to shield the company from 40,000 lawsuits from cancer patients who link their condition to talc in J&J’s baby powder.
In October 2021, New Jersey-based J&J used a wrinkle in Texas state law to spin off a new subsidiary that it named LTL. The company moved all baby...
In June 2022, the U.S. Senate passed a bill to make sure the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and manufacturers of infant formula are held strictly accountable for the safety of baby food production.
This vote comes amidst multiple lawsuits being filed against formula makers alleging their products may have caused infants developing necrotizing enterocolitis. This deadly illness...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that in 2019 more than 5,000 people were killed and an estimated 159,000 people were injured in crashes involving large trucks. Across the United States, an estimated 538,000 large trucks were part of crashes on a public road or highway, with 75 percent of fatalities involving a truck with a gross vehicle weight rating of...
Waters & Kraus LLP is proud to announce that law firm partners C. Andrew Waters and Peter A. Kraus once again have been named to the 2022 Texas Super Lawyers list.
The prestigious list recognizes both Waters and Kraus as among the top 5% of Texas attorneys in their practice areas for personal Injury litigation and product liability litigation on behalf of...
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