When a corporate client was named by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as the principal responsible party at a Super Fund site in Maryland, our firm was selected to bring a civil action to recover past and future costs under sections 107 and 113 of CERCLA against other potentially responsible parties. The client asked that the action be concluded promptly if possible. A Complaint was filed in August 1994. We handled the case with a small team of lawyers in cooperation with the client's in-house attorneys and a group of high caliber experts and investigators. By March 1997, after an expedited disclosure and discovery schedule were negotiated and completed, something extraordinary occurred. After we assembled the defendants for a presentation and demonstrated through our experts the strength of our case, the client's claims against over ninety PRP's were successfully settled for an amount in excess of $10,000,000. The in-house attorney handling the matter received an award from the client for outstanding litigation management, and the lawyers from Daller Greenberg & Dietrich, LLP, were invited to a dinner with the client's General Counsel and CEO to celebrate what we believe to be one of the most quickly resolved CERCLA actions. Good judgment, creativity and hard work paid off for our client and demonstrated our ability to handle CERCLA actions efficiently and successfully.
Daller Greenberg & Dietrich, LLP, has handled cases involving claims of injury resulting from exposure to consumer, commercial, toxic and hazardous substances. Some of these cases involved individuals claiming that their exposure led to a hypersensitivity to other products. Our extensive experience in this field enables us to select critical liability and damage expert witnesses.
