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King, Krebs & Jurgens Successfully Defends U.S. Navy in Toxic Exposure Case January 17, 2012 In the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Henry
King and Michael Vincenzo were successful in obtaining a dismissal of all of
Plaintiff's claims in a maritime tort action alleging toxic exposure.
The United States was sued for personal injuries sustained by a
merchant mariner who suffered acute liver failure shortly after working aboard
a Military Sealift Command vessel. The plaintiff-seaman, who required a
liver transplant, claimed that his illness was triggered by the inhalation
of fumes from paint he worked with while aboard the vessel. The United
States moved to have plaintiff's causation experts (a toxicologist, liver
transplant surgeon and hepatologist) barred from testifying on the grounds that
their opinions did not meet the minimum threshold for admissibility under
applicable federal law. The Court granted the United States' motions,
finding that none of the experts was able to establish that the chemicals involved
(paints widely used by the US Navy in the maintenance of its fleet) were
capable of causing acute liver failure. Having stricken these witnesses,
the Court went on to dismiss all of Plaintiff's claims, due to a lack of proof
supporting his case.
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