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Golf course manager suing DuPont over herbicide
Indianapolis Business Journal
July 19, 2011
An Indianapolis-based golf course manager is leading a national class-action lawsuit charging that a herbicide manufactured by DuPont is killing trees and other vegetation. R.N. Thompson Golf LLC, which operates several area courses, including Gray Eagle, Ironwood, Winding Ridge and Southern Dunes, said it has witnessed "catastrophic tree loss” after applying the herbicide Imprelis.
The two law firms representing the class-action suit, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP of San Francisco and Starr Austen & Miller LLP of Logansport, announced the filing in a federal court in Delaware on Monday. Their complaint alleges that Delaware-based DuPont failed to disclose the risks Imprelis poses to trees, even when applied as directed, and failed to provide instructions for safe application.
“Even though it’s a new product, Imprelis has been widely adopted by landscapers and lawn-care specialists who believed DuPont’s claims that it is safe and an environmentally friendly herbicide,” said Jonathan Selbin, a lawyer at Lieff Cabraser, in a prepared statement. “Instead, the evidence is quickly piling up that Imprelis is attacking trees as if they are weeds.”
Read the full article at the Indianapolis Business Journal. Learn more about the DuPont Imprelis class action lawsuit.