Legal Question in Personal Injury in Ohio

Re: Cancer cases with GM powertrain

Try an internet search. Court records are mostly public and you can search them if you can figure out what jurisdiction these cases would have been filed in.

Re: Cancer cases with GM powertrain

Try contacting the law firm of Zamler Mellon in Southfield, MI - they handle a lot of these toxic torts/workplace type lawsuits.

Cancer cases with GM powertrain

Call attorney David Mittleman in Lansing. He may be able to assist you.

Re: Cancer cases with GM powertrain

This is a very tragic development. There have been some investigations into similar matters. In England, for instance, an 18-month investigation into a throat cancer cluster at the Ford car factory in Southampton found six cases, which was twice the expected number over an 11-year period. Five employees in the paint shop died of throat cancer. Another developed the illness but recovered. The six staff members were diagnosed with the disease between 1994 and 2005. Cancer problems have been identified in car plant studies in the past. A general health probe carried out in 2003 by Alabama University at Ford plants across the United States identified high numbers of oesophageal cancer cases, but also concluded they were coincidental. In Canada, the Canadian autoworkers' union CAW was concerned about the workplace cancer risk to its members, and in December 1997 launched a national "prevent cancer campaign." The union said that metalworking fluids and other common car industry exposures placed its members at risk. A 1999 collective agreement with the Ford Motor Company covering 13,300 CAW members apparently, according to the Union, succeeded in prohibiting the introduction of 14 hazardous substances, most of them carcinogens, including asbestos, PCBs and vinyl chlorideAN 18-month investigation into a throat cancer cluster at Southampton's Ford car factory has concluded six cases - twice the expected number - occurred as a matter of chance. Experts were called in after five employees in the paint shop died of throat cancer. Another developed the illness but recovered. The six staff members were diagnosed with the disease between 1994 and 2005. It is more than twice the number of cases medical researchers would expect to occur over an 11-year period. Cancer problems have been identified in car plant studies in the past. A general health probe carried out in 2003 by Alabama University at Ford plants across the US identified a high numbers of oesophageal cancer cases, and also concluded they were coincidental. In Canada, the Canadian autoworkers' union CAW was so concerned about the workplace cancer risk to its members, in December 1997 it launched a national 'prevent cancer campaign'. The Union said metalworking fluids and other common car industry exposures placed its members at risk. A 1999 collective agreement with the Ford Motor Company covering 13,300 CAW members succeeded in prohibiting the introduction of 14 hazardous substances, most of them carcinogens, including asbestos, PCBs and vinyl chloride.

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