Legal Opinion
Sutera v. Perrier Group of America, Inc.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided September 29, 1997No. Civil Action 95-12152-PBSPublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SARIS, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Plaintiff, Charles Sutera, Jr., 1 claims that his regular consumption of Perrier sparkling mineral water caused him to contract acute promyelocytic leukemia (“APL”) because it was contaminated with benzene, a known carcinogen.
To support Sutera’s allegation that the exposure to benzene in the Perrier water caused his disease, plaintiff has offered the opinion of Robert Jacobson, M.D., an oncologist at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, where he serves as the Medical Director of the Cancer Institute, and a board…
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