Delaware Judge Tosses Some Claims From Mercury Mass Tort Litigation

( September 14, 2026, 8:33 AM EDT) -- WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware judge declined to dismiss 227 mercury exposure suits from former employees who worked at a Delaware chemical plant or their relatives as untimely because determining when the plaintiffs should have connected their injuries to exposure requires discovery but dismissed several claims and defendants for pleading deficiencies, allowing amendments....