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ChevronTexaco Corporation

Leaded Gasoline Exposure

Date: 04/09/2010 (Date of Verdict)

Misconduct Type: Health

Enforcement Agency: Non-Governmental

Contracting Party: None

Court Type: Civil

Amount: $19,000,000

Disposition: Judgment Against Defendant

Synopsis: A Mississippi state court jury awarded $19 million to five women who claimed Texaco (now a unit of Chevron Corp.) was responsible for their children being born with disabilities and illnesses. The five women were pregnant while working between 11 and 20 years earlier at a Jefferson County office building that used to be a Texaco gas station. They alleged they were exposed to leaded gasoline fumes contained in fuel tanks that were left in the ground after the gas station was renovated.