Miami, Fla. (November 15, 2023) – Miami
Lewis Brisbois Partners Todd R. Ehrenreich, Troy P. Cunningham, and
David L. Luck recently won a defense summary judgment in a
toxic-tort action pending in the U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of Florida. See Vandestreek v. Lockheed Martin
Corp., No. 6:21-cv-1570-RBD-DCI, 2023 WL 6396087, 2023 U.S.
Dist. LEXIS 177550 (M.D. Fla. Sept. 27, 2023).
In Vandestreek, the Court addressed and applied the
Eleventh Circuit's two-part causation analysis for toxic-tort
cases originally provided in McClain v. Metabolife Int'l,
Inc., 401 F.3d 1233 (11th Cir. 2005). Vandestreek
applied that analysis to the following constituents of concern
—vinyl chloride, lead, and dichloromethane/methylene chloride
(DCM).
