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B. Braun resolves majority of lawsuits alleging that cancer-causing emissions were released from Hanover Twp. facility

Summary by The Indiana Gazette Online
The company says the settlement is not the admission of any wrongdoing, and it would continue to vigorously defend any remaining litigation.

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B Braun, found not negligent by jury, to settle claims that company’s ethylene oxide emissions in Lehigh Valley caused cancer

B Braun, an international medical company with a commercial sterilizer facility in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, will settle with dozens of people who sued the company, alleging that its emissions caused cancer. The settlement comes after a monthlong jury trial late last year in which a Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury found B Braun non-negligent, meaning that the company has not been legally found to have committed any wrongdoing in t…

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B. Braun resolves majority of lawsuits alleging that cancer-causing emissions were released from Hanover Twp. facility

The company says the settlement is not the admission of any wrongdoing, and it would continue to vigorously defend any remaining litigation.

·Indiana, United States
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Lehigh Valley BusinessLehigh Valley Business

B. Braun reaches agreement over cancer claims

Bethlehem-based B. Braun said it has reached an agreement to resolve the majority of the ethylene oxide claims pending against the company.   A spokesperson for the company noted that on Dec. 5 a jury ruled in favor of B. Braun’s US subsidiaries against plaintiff claims that the company’s ethylene oxide sterilization process was causing cancer.  The suit, brought by the law firm of Kline & Specter claimed:  “A cancer-causing gas emitted from the…

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Confidential Ethylene Oxide Settlement Reached To Resolve Lawsuits Over Emissions From Pennsylvania Facility

The German drug company B. Braun indicates it has reached an ethylene oxide lawsuit settlement with plaintiffs in the vicinity of a medical device manufacturing facility in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, which they say leaked and exposed nearby residents to toxic, cancer-causing air pollution. Ethylene oxide is a gas used in the sterilization process of some hard-to-clean medical devices, such as those made of metal or glass, or which have multipl…

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The Indiana Gazette Online broke the news in Indiana, United States on Wednesday, February 19, 2025.
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