Gregory M. Anding

Asbestos and Occupational Exposure Litigation

• Served as national coordinating counsel for a supplier of asbestos cement pipe in litigation across the United States.
• Serves as national coordinating counsel for an international petrochemical company in connection with asbestos and benzene litigation.
• Serves as national coordinating counsel for a national paper manufacturer in connection with asbestos litigation.
• Representation of major petrochemical companies and paper production facilities in jury trials, case management, and the complete work-up of the defense of claims involving both living plaintiffs and wrongful death and survival claims brought by families of deceased contractors and employees who allegedly developed and died from mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases as a result of exposure to asbestos-containing products at numerous sites during their careers.

Benzene Litigation

• Representation of major petrochemical companies in numerous personal injury suits brought by contractors and employees for claims allegedly related to exposure to benzene.
• Representation of major petrochemical companies in the successful exclusion of the plaintiff’s causation expert and corresponding successful motion for summary judgment, dismissing all the plaintiff’s personal injury claims for alleged exposure to benzene.

Expropriation and Land Use

• Representation of a major energy company in the management of a high-profile 42-inch natural gas pipeline expropriation project from the Haynesville Shale in North Louisiana near Mansfield, Louisiana to Napoleonville, Louisiana involving the acquisition of 250+ miles of land through conventional agreement and expropriation litigation, as well as environmental, regulatory, and governmental relations issues.
• Representation of a global pipeline company in the successful expropriation of property for the transportation of ethylene to a major polyvinyl chloride facility.
• Representation of a major petrochemical company in several bench trials for the expropriation of property to construct common carrier pipelines spanning four parishes in south Louisiana.
• Prevailed in Louisiana Supreme Court landmark decisions establishing the appropriate method for the determination of just compensation in pipeline expropriation cases in Louisiana and route selection criteria.

Hearing Loss Litigation

• Prevailed in a landmark decision by the Louisiana Supreme Court holding that gradual hearing loss tort claims against employers are barred because those claims are compensable under the Louisiana Workers Compensation Act (the Act) as an “occupational disease” under the Act’s post-1975 definition of that term, and as an “accident” under the Act’s pre-1990 definition of that term; notably, he also tried the case prior to the appeal.

Product Liability and Class Action Litigation

• Representation of Fortune 500 company in numerous product liability claims for a variety of industrial and commercial products across the country in numerous state and federal courts.
• Representation of an international chemical manufacturer in a class certification hearing involving claims brought by crawfish farmers throughout Louisiana for lost crops and resulting profits allegedly caused by crawfish exposure to the client’s insecticide used to treat rice seed.
• Successfully removed several cases to federal court on the basis of a federal officer removal statute for an international rubber producer whose facility was controlled by the federal government during World War II as part of the war effort.

Reported Cases

• James Clifford Arrant, 2015 WL 2082431; -So.3d -, 2013-2878 (La. 5/5/15): landmark Louisiana Supreme Court ruling that occupational noise-induced hearing loss claims are barred in tort on the basis of worker’s compensation exclusivity.
• Malcolm LeBlanc, 513 F.Supp.2d 641 (E.D. La 6/18/2007); 275 Fed.Appx. 319 (5th Cir. 4/22/2008) (vacated and remanded for reconsideration; 2009 WL 3837397 (E.D. La. 11/13/2009); 396 Fed.Appx. 94 (5th Cir. 9/23/2010)(affirmed): excluding the plaintiff’s causation expert and dismissing the plaintiff’s claim in a benzene personal injury suit.
• Acadian Gas Pipeline System v. Nunley, 77 So. 3d 457 (La. App. 2 Cir. 11/2/11); 80 So. 3d 487, 2011-2680 (La. 2/10/12) (writ denied), finding in favor of Acadian Gas Pipeline on Nunley’s route selection challenges.
• Exxon Mobil Pipeline Co. v. Union Pacific R. Co., 35 So. 3d 192, 2009-1629 (La. 3/16/10), wherein the Louisiana Supreme Court clearly set forth the principle that “necessary” in the context of expropriation refers to the necessity of the purpose for the expropriation, not the necessity for a specific location.
• Exxon Pipeline Company v. LeBlanc, 2000-C-2559 (La. 10/05/01), 796 So. 2d 665 and Exxon Pipeline Company v. Hill, 2000-C-2535 c/w 2000-C-2559 (La. 5/15/01), 788 So. 2d 1154, which established the appropriate method for the determination of just compensation in pipeline expropriation cases in Louisiana.