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COPYRIGHT 2005 Crain Communications, Inc.
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA
Lawyers for six individuals with brain-cancer suits against mobile-phone firms rejected industry's argument that the claims are pre-empted by federal law, saying wireless firms "blatantly misrepresented the safety of their products in order to dupe consumers'' into buying products that have led to "life-threatening illnesses, rendering them disabled for the rest of their lives.''
While the mobile-phone industry has triumphed in all health litigation to date, the six brain-cancer suits still represent potentially serious legal exposure for wireless carriers, manufacturers, standards groups and industry trade associations. Indeed, new studies suggesting a possible health risk-particularly those conducted by multinational research programs in Europe-have been introduced into...
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