Rice's appointment, approved on Aug. 22, comes after lawyers reached more than $13.5 billion in settlements with 3M and DuPont that resolves lawsuits over the forever chemical PFAS in public drinking water supplies.
August 24, 2023 at 07:05 PM
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The federal judge overseeing 3M’s $12.5 billion drinking water deal has appointed influential mass tort settlement negotiator Joe Rice to the plaintiffs’ leadership team.
In adding Rice, U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel in South Carolina is aiming to resolve the complex multidistrict litigation over perfluoralkyl or polyfluoralkyl substances, or PFAS, in drinking water supplies contaminated by aqueous film-forming foam used by firefighters.
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