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Settlement concludes first MTBE products trial.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JAN-03 		Format: Online - approximately 658 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Settlement concludes first MTBE products trial.(California)

Article Excerpt
Months after a jury found five major defendants liable in the first products liability suit over the gasoline additive MTBE, the final one has settled.

The suit--filed by a California utility company against the chemical's producers and fuel manufacturers, refineries, and distributors--sought to recoup millions of dollars to cover the costs of cleaning up public water supplies contaminated with the additive. (South Tahoe Public Util. Dist. v. Atlantic Richfield Co., No. 999128 (Cal., San Francisco County Super. Ct. Aug. 5, 2002).)

More than a dozen defendants settled before the case went to trial. In April 2002, a...

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