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Judge declares mistrial in punitive damages phase in Walker v. BD

Plaintiff still awarded $20m following the May 2 verdict

A five-year analysis of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) modeling recently mapped out and published by news company ProPublica shows that EtO emissions from Becton Dickinson & Co. in Covington added an estimated 1 in 1,100 excess lifetime cancer risk within the community. BD officials say the data used was outdated and not based on real air monitoring. - photo by Special to The News

A five-year analysis of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) modeling recently mapped out and published by news company ProPublica shows that EtO emissions from Becton Dickinson & Co. in Covington added an estimated 1 in 1,100 excess lifetime cancer risk within the community. BD officials say the data used was outdated and not based on real air monitoring. - photo by Special to The News

GWINNETT COUNTY – Phase two of the years-long legal battle between Becton Dickinson (BD) and longtime Covington resident Gary Walker has officially ended in a mistrial. Walker, a truck driver for the company formerly known as Bard from 1970-99, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2017. According to court filings, he believes his time at Bard (now BD) led to his cancer diagnosis due to his exposure to ethylene oxide, a known carcinogen.

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