The international Baker Botts firm, in a case of first impression, obtained a dismissal for a chemical storage company faced with mass tort litigation for a toxic chemicals spill in the Houston Ship Channel.

The client, Intercontinental Terminals Co., faced 57 lawsuits from other users of the ship channel after a 2019 fire at its Deer Park storage tank facility led to the discharge of up to 523,000 barrels of a mixture of firefighting aqueous film forming foams, petrochemical products and firewater.

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]