CLASS ACTION EXPERIENCE

Yucca Mountain Tunnel Workers

The firm has teamed with Hutton & Hutton, a nationwide medical malpractice and personal injury firm, to bring a major class action suit against contractors Bechtel, SAIC, TRW, Parsons and Keiwit Construction on behalf of workers who drilled five miles of tunnels into Yucca Mountain for the Energy Department's site characterization work. The suit, in federal district court in Las Vegas, alleges that thousands of workers and tunnel visitors were knowingly exposed to illegal levels of toxic silica and erionite dust without respiratory protection or protective clothing, and that exposure records were doctored to conceal air quality information to save on labor costs and earn bonuses. Several tunnel workers are already dying of silicosis.

Tobacco Litigation

The firm has teamed with several personal injury law firms to bring a lawsuit in Florida against major tobacco companies on behalf of the Medicare program as a result of the tobacco companies' deliberate concealment and clandestine manipulation of the addictiveness of their cigarettes. The suit has been brought under the "private attorney general" provision of the Medicare as Secondary Payer statue, and seeks to recover two-times the many millions of dollars Medicare has spent on the health care needs of certain Medicare beneficiaries suffering from tobacco-related illnesses. In 2005, the firm filed a parallel nationwide action against the tabacco companies on behalf of United Seniors, Inc.

Securities Fraud Litigation

The firm has teamed with securities attorneys to bring security fraud cases against nuclear utility operators who have misrepresented their power plant operations status in public disclosure statements.