This phase should be completed within a year. These are expected to increase to 300 by mid-1998. In February, a Milwaukee County, Wis. jury awarded the money to laboratory technician, Linda Green, who claimed she developed a severe sensitivity to surgical latex gloves through 13 years of workplace exposure. The gloves often are lined with powder or cornstarch that carry the proteins into the air. After repeated exposures, an allergy can develop and show up as skin or respiratory reactions.
Severe sensitivity can lead to disability or death.
The manufacturers are accused of failing to issue adequate warnings about potentially dangerous side effects in using their products. Constructing Claims Construction products defects claims, which allege failure of construction products when incorporated into other structures, have surfaced over the last 20 years mainly in the form of asbestos, plywood roofing, hardboard siding and polybutylene piping cases. D.C. Shulman has represented corporations in disputes with insurance companies over coverage for construction claims. But recently in a rare turnabout, a group of 38 insurance companies mounted a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against their policyholders, the manufacturers of polybutylene pipes. The pipes were introduced in 1978 and installed in about 6 million mobile homes and apartment complexes, mostly in the Southeast.