Chemical exposure can result in devastating injuries requiring extensive medical care and great expense. It is essential that victims of chemical exposure have appropriate representation when pursuing reparations for their injuries. In these challenging cases Golomb & Honik offers wide-ranging experience that few other firms can match. The typical chemical exposure suit requires extensive knowledge of several areas of the law, including but not limited to class action, personal injury, and commercial law.

We have been particularly active in cases involving respiratory toxins, substances that regularly cause serious health problems for workers in a range of industries. One particular case took almost five years to complete and involved three-quarters of a million documents. Despite the fact that the defendant declared bankruptcy while the case was still in progress, Golomb & Honik attorneys were able to achieve settlement for their individual and class action clients. We have a proven track record of success with chemical exposure cases. Read more about it here:

• Confidential Multi-Million-Dollar Settlement for Pennsylvania Plant Workers After exposure to beryllium, some workers at a Reading, Pennsylvania plant died, and others were injured. A judge who cited the statute of limitations threw out their lawsuits. However, the lawyers at Golomb & Honik did not give up and achieved an important victory before a panel of judges on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Golomb & Honik attorneys argued that the statute of limitations did not apply because doctors had told the workers that their illness did not relate to beryllium. Only at a later time, within the statutory period, was it known that the illness causing their injuries and deaths stemmed from beryllium exposure. A majority of judges agreed, and the cases were successfully reinstated. Golomb & Honik then achieved a multi-million dollar settlement against the defendant polluter, even though the defendant was bankrupt at the time.
• Multi-Million Dollar Settlement in Chemical Exposure Case 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.