Toxic emissions lawsuits against Sterigenics skyrocket from 75 cases to more than 700

Attorney Antonio Romanucci of Romanucci & Blandin, LLC speaks with WGN-TV following the filing of more than 600 additional individual lawsuits for cancers, miscarriages and other health problems caused by emissions of the airborne carcinogen ethylene oxide (EtO) from the Sterigenics facility in Willowbrook, Illinois. The newly-filed victims’ cases bring the current number of individual cases pending in Cook County, Illinois to more than 700. The cases are filed on behalf of people who lived and worked near the Sterigenics medical sterilization facility which permanently closed in Fall of 2019. The cases state Sterigenics and others are responsible for causing leukemia, lymphoma, breast cancers, various other cancers, miscarriages, and other medical conditions that severely changed or ended the lives of so many in that community. For the initial approximately 75 filings, Antonio M. Romanucci is the court-appointed Lead Counsel for the legal group suing Sterigenics.