Taylor Porter has represented major corporations in a broad spectrum of toxic tort cases such as mass toxic tort suits involving Superfund sites. The firm has also handled litigation involving chemical spills from train derailments, asbestos, and silicosis suits as well as vinyl chloride cases and suits involving underground storage tanks.
Representative Experience:
- Defending a group of excess insurers in a multimillion-dollar class action brought on behalf of thousands of plaintiffs as a result of a chemical release.
- Representing multinational chemical corporation and fuel additive company in asbestos suits.
- Defending manufacturing and supply corporation in a personal injury suit alleging brain cancer caused by exposure to ethylene oxide.
- Serving as national counsel to a major petrochemical company in lawsuits involving alleged exposures to vinyl chloride.
- Representing the largest painting contractor in the Southern United States and its executive officers in silicosis cases filed throughout the state of Louisiana.
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