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15 Nov 2016

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Hausfeld (USA)

Hausfeld Files Suit on behalf of St. Louis Property Owners with Radioactive Contamination

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Hausfeld, a global claimants’ law firm, announced today that it has filed a lawsuit in St. Louis County, Missouri seeking to recover damages on behalf of local residents for radioactive contamination of their property...It is alleged that the wastes have been mishandled over the decades and now contaminate homes...The defendants in the case are Bridgeton Landfill, LLC, Republic Services, Inc., Allied Services, L.L.C., Rock Road Industries, Inc., MI Holdings, Inc., Mallinckrodt, Inc., Cotter Corporation, Commonwealth Edison Company, and Exelon Corporation.  Hausfeld is working with several experts in radiological contamination and clean-up who have carried out extensive testing in the affected community and have confirmed that the areas around the West Lake and Bridgeton Landfills are contaminated with the same uranium ore radioactive materials that Defendants processed and dumped in several St. Louis area neighborhoods...The complaint seeks an injunction requiring the defendants to pay monitoring and clean-up costs for plaintiffs’ homes, as well as damages for the lost value of plaintiffs’ property.