Galante & Bivalacqua is committed to providing our skilled and knowledgeable representation to our clients that have to face complex, multi-party toxic tort litigation.  Galante & Bivalacqua lawyers have vast experience with the management and successful prosecution of mass tort litigation.

The past few decades has seen a tremendous increase in the field of toxic tort litigation.  Rising environmental awareness and activism is the primary driving force behind this increase.  Corporations who choose to ignore environmental dangers in favor of increasing profits at the expense of the public have been targeted by attorneys at Galante & Bivalacqua for civil liability to their victims.  Toxic tort litigation encompasses an extremely broad array of claims from products liability to real estate rehabilitation. Toxic torts tend to effect a broad portion of our population due to the very nature of of chemical or substance exposures.  As a result, the law has been forced to develop methods for dealing with mass tort litigation, including class action suits and multi-district litigation.

Regardless of which ground is used, the issue to be resolved by the fact finder at trial, whether it be a judge or a jury, is whether the conduct of the defendant in the way it used a chemical, mineral or other harmful product was unreasonably dangerous and thereby caused injury to the plaintiff or a group of plaintiffs. The primary issues in such cases will be the conduct of the defendant, the dangers known to exist at the time the defendant engaged in the conduct of which it is accused and the causal relationship of the offending agent to the plaintiff's injuries. Toxic tort claims rely heavily upon the use of expert witnesses on all of these issues. 

The attorneys at Galante & Bivalacqua have ample experience throughout their careers dealing with health issues and property damage issues as they relate to faulty building materials.  Scott Galante has helped hundreds recover damages from  products manufacturers throughout his career.

Galante & Bivalacqua represents individuals and small businesses in product liability, tort, negligence, consumer, construction defect, environmental, occupational injury and disease, and catastrophic injury cases.  Additionally, attorneys of Galante & Bivalacqua have been involved representing Plaintiffs in a myriad of litigation needs as a result of Hurricane Katrina, its aftermath, and resulting insurance and contractor disputes including recovering significant settlements via the Murphy Class Action involving the contamination of a large area of St. Bernard Parish, LA by the release of oil from the Murphy Oil Refinery in that community.

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