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February 15, 2006
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Legal Heat Stays on Jet Engine Firm
Some are unable to sue Pratt & Whitney over cancer deaths, but the battle continues.
By Paul Marks, Hartford Courant
Sixty-one survivors of Pratt & Whitney employees who died of brain cancer lost their fight to sue the jet engine maker Tuesday when the state Supreme Court ruled against them.
But the battle continues on two fronts, with other cancer survivors pressing an ongoing lawsuit blaming the deaths on hazardous conditions at Pratt & Whitney plants, and with calls for changes in state law governing wrongful-death suits.
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Richard Gross, the attorney suing in Superior Court in Waterbury, said the lawsuit had grown from 10 plaintiffs a year ago to more than 20.
Two years ago, the judge handling that case decided that...
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