Paraquat Contracts

Our Eligibility & Screening Criteria in Paraquat Cases

Your law firm needs a marketing team that has handled thousands of Paraquat cases to date on the front end and the administrative end. At Atraxia Media, we use your criteria for cases and understand what you're looking for. Then, following the goal of getting signed contracts to pay out in the end, we apply a marketing approach involving the following stages:

• Pre-screening. Clients find us when searching for information related to their legal issues. Our focus then is on following your criteria for cases, so that you can connect with the most promising prospects.
• Screening each case. During this phase, we're listening to your future clients, and we're engaging with their issues while also making sure their case is eligible based on your criteria.
• Following up on all our calls. If we decide the client is a good fit for your law firm, we follow up with them efficiently and check back on them frequently as a relationship strengthening action.
• Getting you signed contracts based on your eligibility criteria. Atraxia Media's focus is to provide you with signed contracts.
• Delivering more clients to your law firm.
• Working to generate cases for you by using our own in-house marketing team that has extensive expertise. We ensure that no potential plaintiffs are overlooked.
• Delivering Paraquat potential plaintiffs entirely exclusive to your law firm.

Agricultural workers and others may be eligible to file a Paraquat lawsuit if they have been:

• Exposed to the herbicide Paraquat
• Diagnosed with Parkinson's disease

At Atraxia Media, we know it's important to start your client relationships off on the right foot. To start working exclusively for you, our internal team needs to know the number of cases you require. As a result, our marketing process is straightforward for your potential clients, efficient, and customized as per your needs.

Paraquat Facts & History

The total number of Paraquat federal lawsuits has risen to more than 20. As more people learn that their diagnosis could be related to Paraquat exposure, hundreds, if not thousands, more cases are likely to be filed in the coming months and years.

Parkinson's patients exposed to Paraquat products like Gramoxone have filed similar cases in:

• California
• Illinois
• Wisconsin
• Arkansas
• Maryland
• Missouri
• West Virginia

Plaintiffs who allege they've been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease after being exposed to Paraquat-based herbicides have asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to merge their cases into multi-district litigation.

Multidistrict litigation (MDL) is a formality that groups the Paraquat cases to reduce overlap and expedite the legal process. As a result, there is no time to waste on a neurological disorder like Parkinson's. In addition, multidistrict litigation's efficiencies reduce redundancy and provide individuals with the quickest path to justice.

POTENTIAL PARAQUAT PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION, MDL NO. 3004

Location:

• Northern District of California

Presiding Judge:

• Judge Edward Chen

Plaintiffs:

• Farmers and agricultural workers

Defendants:

• Syngenta (Gramoxone manufacturer)
• Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. (CPChem)

Products:

Paraquat products like Gramoxone

Plaintiff Allegations:

This litigation involves allegations that Paraquat applicators are developing Parkinson's disease after handling the herbicide, owing to the manufacturer's defective design and failure to include adequate warnings and safety instructions about the neurological risks which may result from the regular handling of the weed and grass killer.

History:

2023:

• May: A Connecticut man filed a lawsuit directly in the MDL class action, alleging his use of paraquat caused his Parkinson's disease.
• March: Over 3,000 paraquat lawsuit shave been filed in the MDL so far and more are expected to be centralized in the U.S. District Court Southern District of Illinois.
• January: A Kentucky man filed a lawsuit, claiming he developed symptoms of Parkinson's disease from years of spraying paraquat on his family farm.

2021:

• May:

• Doug Holliday, a farmer in Iowa, filed a class action claim on behalf of several farmers against Syngenta and Chevron USA for failing to warn of paraquat's connection to Parkinson's disease. Holliday had been using paraquat on thousands of acres of crops for over three decades before the harmful side effects of paraquat were made public.

• April:
• This is a lawsuit presented by Robin Adams of Missouri. The woman's claim alleges that her husband, a certified herbicide applicator, routinely sprayed paraquat for over 15 years. She eventually developed Parkinson's disease linked to the paraquat exposure she endured as his wife. Robin Adams faulted Syngenta for deliberately covering up the severity of the product's toxicity on their product labels.
• In a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, against the Defendants Syngenta Corporation and Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP, the Plaintiff alleged that Paraquat is unreasonably dangerous to human health and unfit to be marketed.
• In a product liability case, a Missouri woman said she developed Parkinson's disease due to years of direct exposure to the herbicide while working with it and living on a farm where it was widely used.
• A certified Paraquat applicator claimed in a lawsuit filed in California that he mixed and applied the pesticide for at least three decades, first working for a certified applicator, then getting the license himself. He nevertheless developed Parkinson's disease due to his exposure to Paraquat.
• March:
• A Tennessee man filed a lawsuit claiming that his Parkinson's disease was caused by his exposure to Paraquat while employed as a laborer and farmer in California in the 1980s.
• Following his exposure to Paraquat, an Illinois man claimed in a lawsuit that he sustained severe neurological injuries associated with Parkinson's disease.
• In a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois by a man who said he developed Parkinson's disease after years of exposure to Paraquat-based herbicides, the Defendants named were Syngenta and Chevron USA.
• Paraquat exposure caused Parkinson's disease, an Illinois woman alleges, after years of what she thought was safe use when mixing, packing, and spraying the herbicide on farms.
• February:
• An Illinois man claimed in a lawsuit that Paraquat exposure caused him to develop Parkinson's disease, saying that he used the toxic herbicide on a routine and regular basis for years before his diagnosis.
• According to a former crop duster who developed the neurological disorder after spraying the toxic weed, Syngenta, Chevron, and other herbicide manufacturers failed to reveal details about the correlation between Paraquat exposure and Parkinson's disease for years.