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CLEMENT v. OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORP.

No. 97-CA-246.

699 So.2d 1110 (1997)

Gail M. CLEMENT, et al. v. OCCIDENTAL CHEMICAL CORPORATION.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 17, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick W. Bradley, Don K. Haycraft, Kathleen F. Hobson, G.C. Slawson, Jr., New Orleans, for Defendant/Appellant.

Roy F. Amedee, Jr., Plaintiffs' Liaison Counsel, Appeal Counsel, LaPlace, Joseph M. Bruno, Plaintiffs' Liaison Counsel, Stephen B. Murray, Linda S. Harang, Plaintiffs' Committee Member, New Orleans, for Plaintiffs' Liaison Committee/Appellees.

Before CANNELLA and DALEY, JJ., and ROBERT J. BURNS, J. Pro Tem.

DALEY, Judge.

This lawsuit stems from the release of chlorine following an explosion at the Occidental Chemical Corporation plant [Occidental] in Taft, Louisiana. On March 19, 1994, at 12:22 a.m. an explosion in the number two purification column at Occidental's Taft Plant caused an immediate release of chlorine and chloroform into the environment, with a small amount of chlorine continuing to leak until approximately 2:57 a.m. Approximately thirteen hundred pounds...

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