Brimer v. G&S Metal Products Corporation, Inc.

Posted: 06/29/2011  browse the case archive

On June 29, 2011, the San Francisco County Superior Court entered a Consent Judgment in Brimer v. G&S Metal Products Corporation, Inc., which resolved citizen enforcer Russell Brimer's allegations that the defendant G&S Metal Products Corporation, Inc. ("G&S") sold vinyl-coated wire containing the heavy metal lead in the State of California without providing the requisite health hazard warnings.

As part of the settlement, G&S agreed not to sell any vinyl-coated wire in California after January 31, 2011, unless each accessible component of the vinyl-coated wire contained less than 1.0 microgram of lead when analyzed using state or federally approved testing methodologies or has Proposition 65 warnings provided.

The Consent Judgment requires settlement payments of $55,000, divided therein between civil penalties, 75% of which are paid to California's Office of Environmental Health and Hazard Assessment, and compensation to whistleblower Brimer and his counsel for their successful enforcement of this matter in the public interest.

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