The federal decide overseeing 3 M’s $12.5 billion ingesting water deal has appointed influential mass tort settlement negotiator Joe Rice to the plaintiffs’ management crew.
In including Rice, U.S. District Decide Richard Gergel in South Carolina is aiming to resolve the complicated multidistrict litigation over perfluoralkyl or polyfluoralkyl substances, or PFAS, in ingesting water provides contaminated by aqueous film-forming foam utilized by firefighters.