{"id":133125,"date":"2025-09-11T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/11\/4th-circuit-ruling-on-medical-monitoring-could-increase-toxic-tort-risk\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:30:11","slug":"4th-circuit-ruling-on-medical-monitoring-could-increase-toxic-tort-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/09\/11\/4th-circuit-ruling-on-medical-monitoring-could-increase-toxic-tort-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Circuit Ruling on Medical Monitoring Could Increase Toxic Tort Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"

The panel found that Union Carbide, which operated a West Virginia plant that exposed nearby residents to a cancer-causing gas, was responsible for paying for medical monitoring for the lead plaintiff, even though she didn’t allege she had cancer.<\/p>\n

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The panel found that Union Carbide, which operated a West Virginia plant that exposed nearby residents to a cancer-causing gas, was responsible for paying for medical monitoring for the lead plaintiff, even though she didn’t allege she had cancer.<\/p>\n

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The panel found that Union Carbide, which operated a West Virginia plant that exposed nearby residents to a cancer-causing gas, was responsible for paying for medical monitoring for the lead plaintiff, even though she didn’t allege she had cancer. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The panel found that Union Carbide, which operated a West Virginia plant that exposed nearby […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/legal-news-7dnHrP.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}