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Pesticide suits could take a toll on Dole; L.A. trials among 550 cases that might cost firm over $30 billion.

Publication: Los Angeles Business Journal
Publication Date: 03-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Pesticide suits could take a toll on Dole; L.A. trials among 550 cases that might cost firm over $30 billion.(LAW)(Dole Food Co. Inc)(Jose Adolfo Tellez)(Nicaraguan farm workers )

Article Excerpt
Before jury selection even got under way, Jose Adolfo Tellez vs. Dole Food Co. Inc. stood out from the typical contract disputes and tort claims that dominate dockets at the Central Civil West Los Angeles Courthouse.

On one side of the case there were Nicaraguan farm workers bringing claims based on exposure to a pesticide while working on banana plantations three decades ago in their Central American homeland--nowhere near Los Angeles, where they filed their case in 2004.

On the other side of the case: one of Southern California's largest privately held companies, Dole Food, which operated the banana plantations, and Michigan-based Dow Chemical Co., the maker of the pesticide.

Unable to reach a settlement, Dole is now defending itself against the claims of 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers allegedly left sterile by exposure to the pesticide dibromochloropropane, or DBCP, in the late 1970s. As it does, the specter of four more L.A. trials in involving as many as 5,000 other workers with identical claims looms.

Those five cases represent just a fraction...

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