PHILADELPHIA – A 32nd plaintiff has joined the McCullom Lake brain cancer lawsuits, two days into the trial on behalf of the first plaintiff.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Aaron Freiwald filed a lawsuit Tuesday morning on behalf of Thomas Siegel, 32, who lived in McCullom Lake until age seven. Siegel, an attorney living in downstate [Galesburg, not] Atlanta, Ill., was diagnosed Sept. 16 with an oligodendroglioma brain tumor, nine days after undergoing brain surgery.
Siegel lived on the lake shore on West Flanders Road from 1977 until 1984. His younger brother, Jonathan, died in June [2003, not] 2005 from a brain tumor at age 21. Tuesday’s lawsuit does not name the brother’s estate as a plaintiff.
The lawsuits allege that Ringwood manufacturer Rohm and Haas fouled McCullom Lake’s air and groundwater with carcinogenic vinyl chloride, creating a cluster of brain and pituitary tumors in the village and the neighboring Lakeland Park subdivision in McHenry.
Testimony continues today in the first lawsuit, filed by longtime resident Joanne Branham on behalf of her late husband. Franklin Branham died in 2004 at age 63 from aggressive glioblastoma multiforme brain cancer. Doctors subsequently diagnosed her two former next-door neighbors with oligodendroglioma.
On the stand today is Tom Bielas, the Ringwood plant’s special projects manager.
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