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Retired Transit Employees, Suffering Severe Illnesses, File Suit in New York Supreme Court
September 7th, 2008
Claiming that decades of exposure to diesel fumes at 19 Transit Authority-owned and -operated bus depots caused severe medical repercussions, 13 former transit employees or their next of kin today filed suit in New York Supreme Court in three counties (New York, Kings and Bronx) against the manufactures of diesel engines and buses, including General Motors, Grumman, Detroit Diesel, and Cummins Diesel. The 13 plaintiffs worked a combined 254,159 hours in 19 unventilated bus depots without exhaust systems from 1958 to 1999, as bus drivers, bus shifters, and bus mechanics for the Transit Authority and Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority. ...
Source: Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly (2008-09-07)
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