Attorneys for Illinois plaintiffs suing Sterigenics claim the company deliberately shuffled $1.3 billion in assets to investors to avoid compensating people sickened by exposure to ethylene oxide (EtO).
The attorneys representing 75 people who lived or worked near the company’s now-shuttered Willowbrook, Ill., medtech sterilization plant filed an amended complaint in Cook County, Ill. on Jan. 31. The new filing claims Sterigenics and its parent companies began moving the money around in 2016 when they learned that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would reclassify EtO from a “probable” to a “known” human carcinogen.
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