After chemicals that Anthony van Belle bought from a NJ company exploded, burning him and his wife horribly and destroying their home in suburban Amsterdam, the Netherlands citizen hired a Hackensack law firm to file a product liability suit. A federal jury in Newark, applying defense-friendly Dutch law, returned a no-cause verdict in 1994. Unhappy would be a mild way to describe how van Belle reacted to the verdict.
June 07, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
About the only thing missing from the last 10 years ofAnthony van Belle’s life is a Hollywood director to stitch thedetails together.
After chemicals he bought from a New Jersey company exploded,burning him and his wife horribly and destroying their home insuburban Amsterdam, the Netherlands citizen hired a Hackensack lawfirm to file a product liability suit. Unfortunately for him, afederal jury in Newark, applying defense-friendly Dutch law,returned a no-cause verdict in 1994.
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