Sarocco v. General Electric Co.

MEMORANDUM REGARDING DEFENDANT GENERAL ELECTRIC’S MOTION TO DISMISS

PONSOR, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

The plaintiffs are retired workers and the families of deceased employees who manufactured electrical transformers at a General Electric Company facility in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The defendants are General Electric Company (“GE”) and Monsanto Company (“Monsanto”).

According to the complaint, former workers at the Pittsfield GE facility contracted various cancers and other illnesses from prolonged workplace exposure to a number of known, deadly carcinogens — Arcolor, Pyranol and certain…