Chicago Tribune: Hundreds more lawsuits filed over ethylene oxide emissions at Sterigenics plant in Willowbrook

WILLOWBROOK, Ill. (August 24, 2020) – Hundreds of new lawsuits have been filed against Sterigenics alleging that health problems including cancer and miscarriages were caused by ethylene oxide emissions from the Willowbrook facility, bringing the total number of cases filed in Cook County against the sterilization company to more than 700.

Patrick Salvi II of Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard said in a statement that the “magnitude of the number of individual cases filed shows the devastating impact Sterigenics had on the Willowbrook community.”

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