Case name confidential

$13 million ($4,650,000 cash plus future medical care worth $8.5 million)

Chlorine gas exposure resulting in interstitial lung disease and requiring lung transplantation of a 46-year-old hospital cleaning worker who was provided and used two incompatible cleaning agents to clean a nurse’s station sink in a Los Angeles hospital

Case name confidential

> $6.6 million

Acute myeloid leukemia in a 40-year-old aerospace worker who was exposed to benzene from a petroleum solvent for several years and successfully underwent an allogeneic bone marrow transplant

Case name confidential

> $ 5.5 million

Acute myeloid leukemia in a 45-year-old agricultural equipment maintenance worker who was exposed to benzene from a solvent and successfully underwent an allogeneic bone marrow transplant

Marin v. Phillips Plywood

$ 3.6 million

Acute lymphoid leukemia wrongful death of a 60-year-old carpenter who, for many years, sprayed benzene-containing contact adhesive to glue formica to plywood cabinets made for use in restaurants

CERT v. McDonalds and Burger King – $ 3 million penalties, fees & warnings

Proposition 65 case to require McDonald’s and Burger King to provide cancer hazard warnings to California consumers regarding the carcinogen acrylamide in their french fries

Keaton v. Mobil Oil Co.

$ 2.75 million

Death from acute myeloid leukemia of a 30-year-old carpenter who was exposed to benzene from petroleum-contaminated soil while doing construction at the Mobil Oil Refinery in Torrance

Camizzi v. Akzo Nobel

$ 2.28 million

Death from acute myeloid leukemia of a pastor who was exposed to benzene from paints and solvents in his prior employment as an aircraft painter at McDonnell Douglas in Long Beach

Garcia v. Allied

> $ 1.8 million

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in a 60-year-old lithographic printer who, for years, was exposed to benzene from inks and solvents

Hernandez v. Acheson

$ 1.5 million

Death from interstitial lung disease of a 35-year-old laborer exposed to metal dusts worked at an aluminum wheel factory

Perez v Chevron/Allwaste

$ 1.5 million

Death of a 50-year-old woman who developed acute myeloid leukemia from exposure to benzene while working at the Chevron Richmond Refinery during a shutdown/turnaround

Moreno v. Brent America

$1.5 million

Acute lymphoid leukemia in a 40-year-old worker exposed to benzene from solvents and release agents making cultured marble

Diamond v. Allied

$1.45 million

Acute myeloid leukemia in a 40-year-old chiropractor who developed his own x-ray films using developers containing hydroquinone, the leukemogenic toxic metabolite of benzene

Valencia v. Armington

$ 1.2 million

Death from silicosis and mixed dust pneumoconiosis of a 60-year-old maintenance worker exposed to silica and metals at a foundry

Rojas v. Star Label Co.

> $1.1 million

Interstitial lung disease in a 40-year-old meat wrapper from exposure to decomposition products of polyvinyl chloride wrap

Nelson v. Turco Products

$1 million

Acute myeloid leukemia in a 40-year-old aerospace worker exposed to benzene-containing solvents cleaning aircraft frames

Hopkins v Alberto Culver

> $1 million

Acute myeloid leukemia in a 50-year-old hairdresser exposed to benzene, hydroquinone, and formaldehyde in cosmetics, and hair dye

Reese v. Gans Ink

$ 975,000

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in a 58-year-old printer who, for many years, was exposed to benzene from printing solvents and inks

Torrez v. Dow Chemical

$ 877,000

Leiomyosarcoma from occupational exposure to herbicides in a 60-year-old golf course landscape maintenance worker

Case name confidential

$ 725,000

Legal malpractice case for bungling toxic tort wrongful death case of a widow of machinist who developed hard metal lung disease

Mandujano v. 3M Co.

$ 650,000

Interstitial lung disease in a metal lamp worker exposed to metal dusts from cutting and grinding metals with grinding wheels

Lopez v. Camie Campbell

> $ 600,000

Immune thrombocytopenic purpura in a 30-year-old silk screen printer who was exposed to benzene from paints and solvents

Selby v. High Desert

> $ 500,000

Death of a 30-year-old man from glomerulonephritis and kidney failure resulting from organic solvent exposure as a painter

Perkins v.  Bonhaff Lumber      $ 500,000

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis in a 60-year-old carpenter from occupational exposure to wood dust