Court deals blow to chemical firms in Kanawha class-action medical monitoring case

Court deals blow to chemical firms in Kanawha class-action medical monitoring case

A federal court has dealt a blow to chemical corporate giants fighting a class-action lawsuit asserting an increased risk of illness from air pollution in South Charleston in response to their emissions of a carcinogen that has driven up Kanawha County’s cancer risk. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has denied a request from Union Carbide Corp. and Covestro LLC for it to rehear the case and reconsider its August ruling that reviv…