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Medical monitoring cases usually involve large numbers
of people who may have been exposed to certain serious
health hazards or have taken pharmaceutical drugs later
discovered to be dangerous. At Golomb & Honik we
are among the few firms that handle these cases regularly.
Often, it can take years for the symptoms of toxic exposure
or pharmaceutical use to develop. It is imperative that
medical professionals monitor those involved, so that
the dangerous effects of exposure can be detected and
treated as soon as possible. This is essential for both
health and legal reasons, so those at fault can be held
responsible for the results of their actions. You can
read more about our success with medical monitoring
cases:
- Golomb & Honik successfully represented dozens of individual workers—and a class of more than 1,000 additional workers—in a case arising from ongoing occupational exposure to sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. For more than a decade, workers at an oil processing facility were exposed to emissions of sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide gasses from a neighboring plant. Those emissions caused reactive airways disease and occupational asthma in many workers. In addition, many others were exposed and require medical monitoring to detect the potential onset of pulmonary disease. Following years of protracted litigation, and the bankruptcy of the defendant polluter, Golomb & Honik achieved a multi-million dollar settlement against the bankrupt polluter, instead of the pennies on the dollar that many other creditors received.
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