Services NORM Defense

From oil fields to pipe yards to production platforms, leveraging decades of practical experience and innovative approaches to help clients manage and resolve NORM claims.

With over 30 years’ experience, Kean Miller is a leader in defending property damage and toxic tort claims related to (NORM) from pipe yard and oil field activities. Kean Miller works with energy and pipeline company clients to resolve large dockets of individual, mass tort, and class action lawsuits involving personal injury and wrongful death claims by pipe yard and oil field workers. In addition to defending these claims, Kean Miller has a proven ability to work with regulatory agencies to remediate NORM sites. Kean Miller’s long experience and history in dealing with NORM claims helps us design and apply custom strategies and trial tactics to defend clients and minimize their risks.

Representative Experience

  • Common counsel for 17 oil and gas clients named as defendants in numerous lawsuits involving 1000’s of NORM property damage and personal injury claims.
  • Defense of oil and gas clients named in class action/mass tort lawsuits filed by residents alleging exposure to NORM associated with operations at former pipe yards.
  • Defense of oil and gas clients named in individual and mass tort lawsuits filed by pipe yard workers alleging occupational exposure to NORM associated with operations at pipe yards.
  • Defense of oil and gas clients from NORM claims involving oil field operations and allegations of soil, groundwater and drinking water contamination.
  • Defense of oil and gas clients named in personal injury lawsuits filed by oilfield/pipe yard workers alleging exposure to NORM associated with offshore operations.
  • Representation of a major industrial chemical client in cases involving claims for personal injury and property damage arising from alleged contamination of property by a cesium-137 radiation source.
  • Representation of the American Petroleum Institute (API), the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association (LMOGA), and the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association (LOGA) regarding NORM regulatory issues.