Toxic Torts in a Nutshell

What is a Toxic Tort?; Convergence of Public and Private Law; Theories of Liability: Claims Against Sellers of Products, Claims Related to Activities on the Land: CERCLA Liability; Liability of Employers: Workers' Compensation, Regulation Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act; Other Special Defendants: Governmental Entities, Government Contractors, Successor and Predecessor Corporations, Lenders. Insurers, Indeterminate Defendants; Statutes of Limitations; Pre-emption; Causation; Scientific Evidence: Epidemiological Studies, Toxicological Studies, Admissibility, Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Damages: Emotional Distress, Increased Risk of Disease. Medical Monitoring, Punitive Damages; Mass Toxic Torts: Class Actions, Other Aggregative Procedures, Settlement; A Paradigm: Case of Environmental Tobacco Smoke.