Toxic-tort cases are won on causation. Environmental Litigation Group pairs in-house exposure science — dispersion modeling, epidemiology, and geospatial exposure reconstruction — with four decades of complex-litigation execution, turning difficult science into recoveries. Over $3 billion to date.
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Causation is where toxic-tort claims live or die. ELG develops it in-house, with the modeling, epidemiology, and exposure science required to establish both general and specific causation — and to withstand Daubert.
Regulatory-grade AERMOD modeling to reconstruct community and occupational exposure from industrial emissions, supported by attorneys with decades of air-pollution-control engineering experience.
Client populations mapped against EPA TRI, NEI, ECHO, AirToxScreen, and ATSDR data to establish proximity, pathway, and dose with defensible precision at scale.
Occupational and environmental cohort analysis connecting specific contaminants to specific disease — distinguishing, for example, bladder-cancer-specific evidence from broader urinary-tract framing.
Dose-response and mechanism analysis, paired with in-house scientific credentials and a bench of retained experts prepared to testify and survive challenge.
Legal Practice & Execution
Science only matters if it is executed. ELG translates causation into recoverable claims across every procedural posture in modern toxic- and mass-tort litigation.
Representation of public water systems in the AFFF/PFAS MDL (No. 2873) and other coordinated proceedings, with the infrastructure to manage tens of thousands of claimants.
Apportionment and sole-source causation theories built from emissions data, modeling, and discovery across complex defendant groups.
Structured review of regulatory, stack-test, and corporate records — building the factual record that settles cases before trial and wins them at it.
Track Record
Aggregate gross recoveries across four decades of toxic- and mass-tort litigation involving more than a dozen industrial contaminants.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is decided on its own facts and applicable law. Figures reflect aggregate gross recoveries in matters involving each contaminant; a single matter may involve more than one contaminant.
Current Docket
For 6,000+ injured clients across arsenic, asbestos, benzene, coke-oven emissions, creosote, dioxins, ethylene oxide, lead, PCBs, pentachlorophenol, pesticides, PFAS, PAHs, trichloroethylene (TCE) and more, the firm has issued resolution demands totaling over $5 billion for cases in ongoing litigation.
Resolution demands are amounts sought from potential defendants. They are pending and unresolved, are not recoveries, and do not guarantee any result.
Co-Counsel & Referrals
ELG associates with referring and co-counsel firms nationwide, bringing the science, the infrastructure, and the legal experience to develop complex toxic-exposure dockets from intake through resolution.
Full workup — liability, causation, expert development, and claims processing — with the staff and systems to handle mass-claimant inventories.
Site- and exposure-screening models that identify viable claims and defensible defendant groups before resources are committed.