Class Certification - Medical Monitoring

It continues to be difficult to predict the outcome of motions to certify classes in toxic tort cases. In a recent medical monitoring case in West Virginia, Rhodes v. E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.,     F.R.D.     , 2008 WL 4414720 (S.D. W. Va. September 30, 2008), the plaintiffs patterned their certification motion on a medical monitoring class settlement involving the same defendant, the same chemical (perfluorooctanoic acid or PFOA or C-8), and similar exposure levels. However, the court refused to certify the class.

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Class Certification in Environmental Toxic Tort Cases

Like prior cases, the most recently decided class certification opinions provide little consistent direction to litigants for framing future battles over class certification. The opinions do, however, reflect some of the difficulties inherent in class property damage claims.

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