Supreme Court of Iowa

Jacqueline Sue Uhler v. the Graham Group, Inc.

June 23, 2023

Summary

The court held that Uhler's claim was a toxic-tort claim requiring proof of both general and specific causation. Her safety-data-sheet evidence, temporal connection between exposure and symptoms, and medical records did not establish that the concentration of Draynamite vapors reaching her was capable of causing her permanent lung injury, and none of her experts supplied the missing evidence. The court therefore affirmed summary judgment for Graham Group.