Lawyers are defending the use of a handheld device to check for lead in Flint residents, despite the manufacturer’s warning that it wasn’t designed for that work
Lead poisoned Flint, Michigan residents, health care professionals raise concerns about bone scan required for compensation
Health care professionals, including Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, are raising serious concerns that victims of the Flint, Michigan water crisis may be exposed to harmful radiation from bone scans required to qualify for compensation from the $641.25 million water settlement.
Residents must prove their bodies were damaged by lead-in-water poisoning by submitting themselves to x-rays. However, the portable devices being used on residents to detect lead have not been approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use on humans.
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The state’s settlement provides home and business owners a maximum of only $1,000 per household. To qualify for higher compensation, residents must prove lead exposure by having their bones scanned. Lead dissipates in the blood in a matter of days, but it remains in the bones for years.
Motion seeks details on common benefit fund in Flint water settlement
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The Flint water plant, as seen on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020 in Flint. (Jake May | MLive.com)Jake May | Mlive.com
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FLINT, MI Two law firms with clients in the Flint water crisis settlement are asking a federal judge to require the release detailed time and expense records used to justify payments from a $40-million common benefit fund to lawyers who performed work that led to the agreement.
Philadelphia attorney Mark Cuker, who represents approximately 1,300 Flint residents in federal water cases, and Chicago attorney Stephen F. Monroe filed a motion Monday, April 5, requesting that U.S. District Court Judge Judith E. Levy require law firms to provide the records, which they claim are “necessary to evaluate the amount of work that was truly done for common benefit” of Flint residents.