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Mobile phone industry braced for lawsuits
WASHINGTON COURT HEALTH-RELATED CASE TO BE FILED
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MALKANI, 2001'11'14
The mobile phone industry is expected to face a wave of health-related lawsuits in the US, with the
first of dozens of cases to be filed in Washington DC today.
Morganroth & Morganroth, a law firm based in Michigan and New York, said it would file a
personal injury case today on behalf of Michael Murray, a 34-year-old former Motorola employee
now suffering from a brain tumour.
The lawsuit, which seeks both compensation and punitive damages, is expected to be filed in the
District of Columbia Superior Court. It forms part of dozens of cases being prepared by the firm in
association with other legal teams across the country. The move threatens to more than double the
amount of health-related litigation being fought by US mobile phone operators and manufacturers.
Although scientists still remain deeply divided over whether radiation emissions from mobile
phones pose any risks, attorneys in the US have already filed at least five class action lawsuits and
as many personal injury cases.
One person close to the latest litigation said more cancer-related suits would be filed in the coming
days and months. It is understood the filing will centre on issues of product liability,
misrepresentation and negligence.
The legal onslaught will also include a public-interest suit against government agencies and
standard-setting bodies. These include the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal
Communications Agency, the American National Standards Instutute and the Institute of Electrical
Engineers.
Federal agencies are being targeted for not promoting handsets and other devices for minimising
radiation emissions. The same complaint will be levelled at the industry following the discovery in
June that some manufacturers have been patenting shields and other devices to reduce radiation
exposure for nearly a decade - although these are said to address the efficiency of the phones rather
than health risks.
Mayer Morganroth, the trial lawyer who has famously represented Dr Jack Kevorkian, the
prominent US euthanasia advocate, and the former carmaker John Delorean, confirmed that the
Michael Murray case will be filed today - as first reported by RCR Wireless News in Denver. "The
others will be filed in the very near future," Mr Morganroth added.
"The experts are divided but the experts that are knowledgeable, who have really done the
investigations and are independent, are of the solid and firm conviction that cell phones cause brain
cancer."
Norman Sandler of Motorola said the company was only aware of a workers' compensation claim
from Mr Murray pending in Illinois. He also reiterated the company's position that research to date
had not established any adverse health effects from mobile phones. |
