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Hector Torres, Jack Atkin, Maria Gorecki, Kimberly Mack Rosenberg, Aimee E. Torres


On January 2, 2009, KBT&F, on behalf of Celanese Ltd., won an important victory for Celanese and co-defendants in several, related products liability cases in a New Jersey state court arising from plaintiffs' alleged occupational exposure to chemicals. KBT&F previously had argued successfully to the trial and appellate courts in these cases that federal pre-emption under the Hazard Communications Standard ("HazCom") barred plaintiffs’ state law failure-to-warn claims. Celanese and other defendants successfully established, in the context of summary judgment hearings in the trial court, that their warnings fully complied with HazCom. KBT&F New York partners Hector Torres, Jack Atkin and Maria Gorecki and associates Kim Mack Rosenberg and Aimee Torres represent Celanese, Ltd. in this action.