Chaffin Luhana LLP announced that Judge Altonaga of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida has appointed Partner Eric Chaffin as Co-Lead Counsel for the plaintiffs of the In re: Denture Cream Products Liability Litigation, Case Number 1:09-md-02051-CMA (the “Denture Cream MDL”). The litigation centers on claims that GlaxoSmithKline (“GSK”) and The Procter & Gamble Company (“P&G”) added zinc to their denture creams, Super Poligrip and Fixodent, in the 1990s that has been poisoning consumers, resulting in zinc overload, copper deficiency and debilitating myelopathy.
Mr. Chaffin’s appointment follows prior appointments in the ongoing denture cream litigation by Judge Altonaga and by Judge Moss in Philadelphia. Since mid-2009, Mr. Chaffin has served as a member of the court-appointed Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee in the Denture Cream MDL, as federal-state court liaison counsel and as court-appointed Co-Liaison Counsel for the Philadelphia Mass Tort Program (“MTP”) for state court cases involving the same companies and issues. For additional information about Eric Chaffin, go to www.chaffinluhana.com.
Chaffin Luhana is a plaintiffs-only law firm with a national trial practice focused on representing plaintiffs in mass tort, securities, and whistleblower cases in federal and state courts across the country. The founding partners, Eric Chaffin and Roopal Luhana, have an established record of quality, integrity, experience and leadership in the national plaintiffs’ bar and have been counsel in cases that have resulted in recoveries exceeding $900 million in a wide array of consumer and shareholder litigations. The firm prides itself in providing clients with high quality representation designed to achieve the clients’ specific goals and needs.
