"No Injury" Class Actions and Emerging Medical Monitoring Claims

Increasingly, “no injury” class action lawsuits are getting attention from the Plaintiffs’ Bar and U.S. courts.  Plaintiff classes allege harmful exposures without present physical injuries and seek money to monitor their medical conditions. This is a fundamental shift of the law, veering from compensation for actual injury to compensation for possible exposure.  The resources on this page will deal with this issue in depth and discuss whether exposure to a known harmful substance is sufficient, by itself, to constitute bodily injury.