Residents: C8 Injury Claims ‘Cognizable’; Case Against Plastics Company Valid

(September 18, 2017, 7:13 AM EDT) -- CONCORD, N.H. — A group of New Hampshire residents who sued a plastics manufacturer alleging that it was liable for contaminating their drinking water with perfluorooctanoic acid (also known as C8), on Aug. 31 filed a brief contending that they “assert cognizable claims for injury”; therefore, the case should not be dismissed (Kevin Brown, et al. v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation, et al., No. 16-242, D. N.H.)....