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Industrial Realty Group sues DreamWorks, insurers over 'Island'

illness claims- Crooks Fighting Crooks To Avoid Injured Worker Costs

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-downey26-

2008jun26,0,2343118.story

Industrial Realty Group sues DreamWorks, insurers over 'Island'

illness claims

By Verrier, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

June 26, 2008

Nearly four years after DreamWorks SKG wrapped shooting of " The

Island " at Downey Studios, the owner of the movie production facility

is still grappling with claims from workers who alleged they became

ill from exposure to contaminants at the site.

The latest development in the controversy came Tuesday when

Industrial Realty Group filed a lawsuit contending that DreamWorks

and insurance giant International Risk Group refused to cover

$300,000 in legal expenses that the company had incurred.

Several workers sued Downey Studios in 2006, contending that they

were sickened by exposure to toxic materials, including asbestos and

mold, while building props for the set of the 2005 science-fiction

thriller.

The studio, located in southeast Downey near Imperial Highway and

Lakewood Boulevard, was once the site of a Boeing Co. plant.

The Los Angeles County Superior Court lawsuit alleges that

DreamWorks, Greenwich Insurance Co. and International Risk Group

failed to honor agreements to indemnify Industrial Realty Group

against such claims.

Downey Studios executives previously have dismissed the workers'

complaints as spurious, citing extensive environmental testing that

concluded that the former aerospace manufacturing facility was

a " healthy and safe environment. "

Representatives of neither Industrial Realty Group nor DreamWorks

would comment on the suit. A spokesman for Greenwich Insurance could

not be reached for comment.

Once the hub of America's space race, where Apollo spacecraft and

space shuttles were assembled, the sprawling complex has been

transformed in recent years into a film production center, hosting

such movies as " Santa Clause 3 " and " Van Helsing. " Southern

California-based Industrial Realty Group acquired the property in

2004.

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More info has been added to this huge tangled web of corruption.

*see below and also @ http://downey.kaiserpapers.info

This is why the ACOEM and others do what they do,

and IMO it really won't make any difference who enters the white

house!

http://listserv.fsl.com/pipermail/wtcrc/2006-September/000352.html

http://www.knbc.com/news/9595345/detail.html

The same developers from Playa Vista

were also used at this very contaminated site.

The so called Tricks of the trade are very well known.

So much for CA's Prop. 65 we were NEVER told this land was highly

contaminated. A person who works for an Environmental Co. that did

an Environmental Impact Report, stated (off the record ofcourse)), he

was shocked anyone had built anything on that property! One instance

on record tho is...NASA claimed all transformers to be dry, but this

particular Environmental Co. found just the opposite to be true, with

all transformers to be leaking PCB's.

The Ground was contaminated with TCE, PCE, Arsenic among many

other chemicals. NASA said they had 80% of the land cleaned up (80%

of?) Then they report they had underestimated the level of

contamination and the cost...oops!

ARCADIS who was invloved also in the " deal of this property "

also has written reports on TCE to try and lower the toxicology

limits and undermine the EPA's Reports. This might be why Mr.

of the EPA was so evasive during Mr. Waxmans questioning...hmmmm

California water will be a cocktail mixture of Flouride and PCE! Oh

Yummy.

(http://www.regulations.gov)

Enter in Search Box : ARCADIS TCE

For his story>

On behalf of Lockheed Corporation,

ARCADIS critically evaluated

the United States Environmental... …

http://docs.nrdc.org/health/hea_080612A.pdf

06/12/08

TESTIMONY OF

LINDA GREER, Ph.D

DIRECTOR, HEALTH PROGRAM

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL

BEFORE THE U.S. HOUSE

COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT

AT HEARING ENTITLED:

TOXIC COMMUNITIES: HOW EPA'S IRIS PROGRAM FAILS THE PUBLIC

In 2001, EPA concluded that TCE was " highly likely " to cause cancer

and

specifically noted the added health risks when exposures took place

during

childhood. Finalization of that assessment has been held up after

repeated

objections from military contractors and the Department of Defense.

Finally it was reviewed by the National Academies, which issued their

report

in July 2006, finding that the data linking TCE with cancer was even

stronger than EPA IRIS staff had determined, and recommending that

the

IRIS assessment be finalized as soon as possible. Nonetheless, the

Defense Department continued to insist that it not be finalized until

more data

was available, and today the assessment has still not been finalized.

The City of Downey has built a Childrens Park on this land and plans

of

Vertical Housing are now in the works.

Kaiser Permanente built their New Regional Medical Center on this

Former

NASA Boing SUPERFUND site. They built a 4 Floor Medical Offices and

relocated my

Department, with ongoing construction and remediation directly at the

back

of our workspace. Each time the back door was opened Co-workers and I

became ill with severe sleepiness and dizzy spells and many other

symptoms.

After I became ill and was no longer able to work, I then found out,

many others

that had worked on this property had also become ill. I was deemed by

the State of CA to be found disabled, After my Kaiser M.D. said I was

ok to return to work.