Article: Defining the boundaries of "personal injury": Rainer v. Union Carbide Corp.

 
INTRODUCTION 
I. RAINER'S FACTUAL BACKGROUND 
II. RELEVANT PRECEDENT: DEFINING SUBCELLULAR INJURY 
III. THE RAINER OPINION: REJECTING ASYMPTOMATIC DNA INJURY AS AN 
  ADEQUATE CAUSE OF ACTION 
IV. THE POST-RAINER WORLD: EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF THE SIXTH 
  CIRCUIT'S OPINION 
CONCLUSION 

INTRODUCTION

For over fifty years, workers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP) in western Kentucky were exposed to dangerous amounts of toxic radiation--largely without their knowledge. Since the news of the exposure exploded onto the national press in the late 1990s, (1) over six thousand compensation claims have been filed with the Department of Labor, ...

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