Plantation parents enter mold lawsuit

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Plantation parents enter mold lawsuit

The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette,LA

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The parents of some Plantation Elementary School students who

believe they could have health effects from exposure to a

potentially harmful mold on campus have filed suit.

A Lafayette law firm is working with those parents to establish a

class-action lawsuit for Plantation Elementary students.

Attorney Clayton Burgess confirmed recently that he is representing

three of the students. Burgess said a certified class for the

students could mean compensation for medical expenses and medical

monitoring.

" If this is not done, a large number of children will be left out

entirely or won't have any money for future medical needs, " Burgess

said.

The attorney for the school system, Lane Roy, did not return calls

for comment. Burgess said the school system has filed an extension

to answer the suit. Once the schools answers, Burgess said attorneys

would move forward with taking depositions and discovery.

The petition for class-action status lists Villagomez and her

daughter, Anita, a Plantation student, and " all similarly situated

Lafayette Parish residents whose children attended Plantation

Elementary School. "

Questions about whether the school could have potentially harmful

mold began in December when parents Jeannie and Barry Philliber said

their son tested positive for a toxin caused by mold.

Readers Comments:

scottgreer

Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 7:06 am Post subject:

And the ambulance chasers strike again. Didn't Clayton Burgess

represent Michel too?

I thought this was why we had 'Schools of Choice'; if you don't like

Plantation, go elsewhere.

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Tazz

Location: Lafayette, LA

Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 7:59 am Post subject:

It's only an ambulance chaser till your kid is the one affected by

the mold. (No I don't know the people involved but I am a loving

parent).

And since when was it schools of choice? If this child has affects

of this mold who do you go after? The ones that are to see this

don't happen and that's what the loving parents are doing. If he has

medical bills because of the mold who needs to pay for it the people

that caused it.

If your driving your car and someone hits you do you pay for it, NO

the insurance of the other driver and if they don't pay what would

you do. LETS SEE! yOU WOULD CALL AN ambulance chaser TO GET YOUR CAR

FIXED. Sometimes we need ambulance chasers for the right reason. And

the child affected by the mold is the right reason.

Case Closed NEXT TOPIC

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To one person you're the world.

TAZZ

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plainjane

Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 8:10 am Post subject: mold

It is unfortunate that it often takes a lawsuit to make people and

institutions do the right thing. For the sake of it's workers as

well as the kids, the school should have been properly maintaining

their buildings and at the very least, should have taken the matter

very seriously when put on notice.

When it comes to toxins, the larger adult is more able to cope and

process than the child. There is research that indicates that toxins

are stored in fat and is cumulative. Women, even slender women, have

more fat cells than men and earlier research conducted on men is

faulty. Apparently, toxins do not store in muscle but pass through

and leave the body unlike fat which cummulates. When you consider

the specific population of the schools, this is important as they

are occupied by children, most teachers are females and overweight

people have a higher risk for toxicity than others.