You’ve just gotten off the phone with the CEO of one of your company’s subsidiary corporations—Sub A. Several thousand neighbors of Sub A’s main production facility have filed a lawsuit for personal injuries and property damage they attribute to groundwater and air contamination caused by the facility.
Worse, your company, Parent Inc., has also been named as a defendant. Although it never owned or operated Sub A’s facility, Parent has substantial in-house environmental expertise. When the contamination was first discovered several years ago, Parent’s in-house environmental engineers stepped in to lead the investigation and cleanup. These activities included hiring and supervising remediation experts, and editing reports they submitted to the state regulators overseeing the site.
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