Oil Worker Abandons Radiation Theory But Defends Benzene Claims

NEW ORLEANS - An oil and gas field worker alleging injury from exposure to benzene opposes partial summary judgment but acknowledges in a June 18 brief in Louisiana federal court that he has abandoned a theory that radioactivity in the petroleum distillates he handled contributed to his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (Chris Cologne, et uxor v. Shell Oil Co., et al., No. 12-735, E.D. La.).
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