The legal implications of "toxic" mold exposure

Journal of Environmental Health

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 50-51

  Babcock, David W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYCOTOXIN;

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH POLICY; TOXIC MATERIAL;

BUILDING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNGUS SPORE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INSURANCE; LAW; LAW SUIT; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL EVIDENCE; MOISTURE; MOULD; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM; TOXIC MOLD; TOXICITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUNGI; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

FUNGI; STACHYBOTRYS CHARTARUM;

EID: 33645824124     PISSN: 00220892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

References (25)

1. Jay Romano, "Managing Mold, and Lawsuits," N.Y. Times, Jan. 26, 2003, at 11.
2. See www.cdc.gov/nceh/airpollution/mold/stachy.htm.
3. Id. See also, CDC, "Acute Pulmonary Hemorrhage/Hemosiderosis Among Infants - Cleveland, January 1993-November 1994," 43 MMWR, 881-883 (1994);
4. CDC, "Update: Pulmonary Hemorrhage/Hemosiderosis Among Infants - Cleveland, Ohio, 1993-1996," 46 MMWR, 33-35 (1997);
5. CDC, "Update: Pulmonary Hemorrhage/Hemosiderosis Among Infants - Cleveland, Ohio, 1993-1996," 49 MMWR, 180-184 (2000).
6. Institute of Medicine, Damp Indoor Spaces and Health, (The National Academy of Sciences, 2004) (2001), at www.nap, edu.
7. Id., Executive Summary, at 7.
8. Id.
9. Id. at 9.
10. Id.
11. Id. at 14.
12. Seewww.cdc.gov/nceh/airpollution/mold/stachy.htm.
13. Id.
14. Id.
15. See, e.g., Lewis v. State Farm Lloyds, 205 F. Supp. 706 (S.D. Texas 2002).
16. Mary Melinda Ballard and Ronald Allison v. Fire Ins. Exchange et al., No. 99-05252 (Tex. Dist. Ct. Travis County June 1, 2001)
17. Thomas Anderson v. Allstate Ins. Co. 45 Fed. Appx. 754, C.A. 9 (Cal.) 2002.
18. Elmer, Julie S. "A Fungus Among Us: The New Epidemic of Mold Claims," 34 Ala. Law, 109 (March 2003).
19. Centex-Rooney Constr. Co. Inc. v. Martin County, 706 So. 2d 20, 24-28 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)
20. See Falkenstein, R. Drew. "An Introduction to Liability, Negligence, and All Things in Between: Part I." Journal of Environmental Health. September 2005 at 41.
21. Elmer, Julie S., at p. 112, See n. 16, supra.
22. Id.
23. See Flores v. Allstate Texas Lloyd's CO., 229 F. Supp 2d 697 (S.D. Texas 2002).
24. See CDC Web site, n. 10 supra.
25. Id.