Anadarko can exclude some evidence in Tronox case

Ruling: Anadarko can exclude evidence in lawsuit

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By News Wires

 22 December 2011 23:01 GMT

Anadarko can exclude some evidence from a $15.5 billion pollution lawsuit brought by creditors of Tronox, the chemical maker that says it was driven into bankruptcy after it was saddled with environmental liabilities, a report said.



US Bankruptcy Judge Allan Gropper in Manhattan Thursday agreed to a request from The Woodlands, Texas-based Anadarko to limit evidence from an earlier case involving about 4000 people in Avoca, Pennsylvania, who claimed creosote at a wood-treatment plant made them sick.

Some plaintiffs with skin cancer were paid an average of $117,000 a person in that case, according to a Bloomberg report.

Creditors for Oklahoma City-based Tronox, which exited bankruptcy on 14 February, are, along with the US government, suing Anadarko and Kerr-McGee. Tronox said it was saddled with about 2800…

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