Law Practice
Mar. 12, 2002
California Courts Play Catch-Up in Growing Area of Toxic Mold Litigation
Perusing the recent verdicts and settlements, one certainly will discover a healthy smattering of cases involving mold. Mold shows up in construction-defect litigation with leaky buildings, in environmental personal-injury claims involving "sick building syndrome" and in insurance bad-faith claims in which a carrier has refused to cover or adequately pay for certain types of repairs.
Timothy D. Reuben
Reuben MediationTim Reuben spent more than 40 years handling complex legal disputes in California's state and federal courts. As the founder and managing partner of Reuben Raucher & Blum in Los Angeles, he has worked on a wide range of matters through jury and bench trials, arbitration, mediation, judicial reference, and settlement conferences across multiple areas of civil law, including commercial, real estate, construction, employment, intellectual property, insurance, professional liability, and unfair competition.
Perusing the recent verdicts and settlements, one certainly will discover a healthy smattering of cases involving mold. Mold shows up in construction-defect litigation with leaky buildings, in environmental personal-injury claims involving "sick building syndrome" and in insurance bad-faith claims in which a carrier has refused to cover or adequately pay for certain types of repairs.
One case in Sacramento involving insurance returned a jury verdict for $18.5 million, $18 million ...
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