Cancer

NEW ORLEANS - Hundreds of people claim they suffered cancers, miscarriages, stillbirths and deaths because of radioactivity stirred up by oil companies' pipe cleaning; click headline to see defendants in Orleans Parish Court.

Here are the defendants: Joseph Grefer; Camile Grefer; Rose Marie Grefer; Exxon-Mobil Corporation; Intracoastal Tubular Service Inc.; Alpha Technical Services Inc.; Chevron USA Inc.; ConocoPhillips Company; BP America Production Company fka Amoco Production Company; Atlantic Richfield Company; OXY USA Inc.; Placid Oil Company; Marathon Oil Company; Transco Exploration Company, as successor to Exchange Oil and Gas Corporation and OFS Inc.; Homeco Inc.; Mobil Exploration & Producing Southeast Inc.; Phillips Petroleum Company; Shell Offshore Inc.; SWEPI LP; Anadarko US Offshore Corporation fka Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas Corporation; Shell Oil Company; Shell Western E&P Inc.; System Fuels Inc.; Texaco Inc.; Union Oil Company of California; and Tubular Corporation.

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