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Suing Wood Preserving Company
Posted: 11:09 PM Jul 24, 2008
Last Updated: 3:01 AM Jul 25, 2008
Reporter: Sherelle Roberts
Email Address: sherelle.roberts@wkyt.com

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A group of Winchester residents is, suing a local company, claiming its business practices gave them or their relatives deadly cancers.
The suit against the owners of Kentucky Wood Preserving Inc. is on behalf of nearly a dozen people. Some are cancer survivors, others, are family of those who died. The common bond between all the people, is that they lived in the neighborhood near the plant for years. Justin Morgan, the lawyer representing the families, says this suit is about making the company accountable for what he believes it did. The wood preserving plant is no longer in operation. Last summer the Environmental Protection Agency ordered that all hazardous chemicals at the plant be cleaned up.
We contacted the parent company of Kentucky Wood Preserving Inc. As of now, they are not offering comment on the lawsuit.

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Posted by: steve on Jul 25, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Yea the law office will get all the monet snakes in the grass.

Posted by: WHAT!!?? on Jul 25, 2008 at 10:12 PM
How exactly does one reasonably compare spilling hot coffee on oneself, to a local paper company that uses toxic chemicals contributing to cancer?

Posted by: J Location: KY on Jul 25, 2008 at 06:50 PM
To Sue and Geez: I think cancer is a little more "less frivolous" than spilling coffee on yourself...maybe these people have legitimate claims...I would think your opinion would be different if you had cancer yourself or loss someone due to cancer in that area...granted there are way to many lawsuits flying around over ridiculous things, but this doesn't sound like one of them.

Posted by: Sue on Jul 25, 2008 at 04:54 PM
But Geez, you know the sad thing about this is that they are more than likely going to win. Who would have thought the man that sued Mcdonald's would have won because he spilled hot coffee on himself. How crazy is that. But he won and so many more like him. This is so unfair.

Posted by: Geez Location: Lex on Jul 25, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Again - more people looking for an easy buck. Come on people - you can't just file a law suit every time you think someone did something wrong. Good lord - the person that sued McDonald's because the coffee they ordered was hot got millions...and it was a stupid frivolous lawsuit....we didn't have ice coffee then so if you ordered coffee you knew it was gonna be hot or else you'd be complaining that it wasn't hot enough. Come on folks - get a life!

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