Toxic Tort and Environmental Litigation

Toxic tort and environmental cases are an integral part of our practice and generally include allegations of personal injury, illnesses, nuisance, property damage, medical monitoring, and emotional distress allegedly due to environmental contamination or other exposures. While most of these cases involve allegations of chronic personal injury, others involve acute injury, property damage, and business losses, all relating to allegations of effects of toxic substances. Such cases have involved claimed exposure related to air emissions, groundwater and surface water contamination, explosions and catastrophic failures, subsurface migration, industrial contact, and product usage. In addition to toxic tort cases, we have considerable experience in environmental litigation involving claims of responsibility for remediation of contaminated sites. Many of the cases have involved the defense of claims brought by the Department of Justice on behalf of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Arkansas Attorney General on behalf of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality.