Plaintiffs’ lawyers file 600 more personal injury lawsuits vs Sterigenics, now also suing Griffith Foods

A group of personal injury lawyers have again upped the ante in the court fight over a now-shuttered medical device sterilization facility in Chicago’s western suburbs, bringing hundreds more lawsuits and now targeting a food supplier they say bears responsibility for operating the sterilization plant in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Since Aug. 18, the new lawsuits have mounted in Cook County Circuit Court against medical device sterilization company Sterigenics and now, a new defendant, Griffith Foods, which has not had any connection to the sterilization plant for more than two decades.

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