Source: Chicago Tribune, August 21, 2020
Posted on: https://www.advisen.com/

Hundreds of new lawsuits have been filed against Sterigenics alleging that health problems including cancer and miscarriages were caused by ethylene oxide emissions from the Willowbrook facility, bringing the total number of cases filed in Cook County against the sterilization company to more than 700.

This week, more than 600 individual lawsuits were filed on behalf of people who lived and worked near Sterigenics, according to Romanucci & Blandin, one of the law firms filing the cases. The new lawsuits follow the approximately 75 filed previously. Read more.