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EtG Litigation Attorneys
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
WEB NEWS RELEASE
November 24, 2006) PENNSYLVANIA – Pomerantz Perlberger & Lewis LLP, a leading law firm specializing, among other things, in serious personal injury, toxic tort and complex multi-plaintiff litigation, have filed a suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County on behalf of Nancy Clark against Quest Diagnostics, NMS and FirstLab.
Ms. Clark is one of thousands of health care professionals who have been involved in programs for voluntary random testing for alcohol beverage consumption. Formerly, a dedicated and valued registered nurse at Reading Hospital, Ms. Clark's license was suspended because she was reported to have positive test results, despite the fact that she denied drinking any alcohol. Defendants have conducted these tests and administered the programs through a Medical Review Officer ("MRO") for the nurse licensing boards in Pennsylvania.
Ms. Clark obtained national prominence when her story appeared on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. She has since networked with other professionals with similar experiences and has testified in Washington before SAMHSA, a federal agency that is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Resources. Her testimony along with other professionals helped assist SAMHSA in issuing an Advisory, warning that the EtG test is unproven in its reliability or accuracy. It advises that many ethanol-containing products (e.g., hand sanitizers such as Purell, detergents, foods and additives) can produce positive results at or above cutoff levels established by the industry. The leading medical and scientific expert, Dr. Gregory Skipper, who pioneered the EtG test in the United States, has publicly denounced the test and its current cutoff levels, saying that the test unfortunately suggests alcoholic beverage consumption by unknowing incidental use or exposure to hundreds of products. The industry continues to market, promote and sell EtG testing with broad and sweeping claims of scientific validity.
The Defendants sued by Ms. Clark are leading labs and administrators that have spearheaded this $4 Billion market and who fiercely, for economic reasons, defend the test and the cutoff levels. It is alleged in the suit that Quest, NMS & FirstLab have known of the corruption of results caused by incidental use of products, but have continued to tout the EtG test as the best method of detecting alcohol beverage consumption.
Ms. Clark seeks compensatory and punitive damages from the Defendants and continues to take a leadership position before governmental bodies in opposing the continued use of EtG testing by licensing boards that destroy the careers of health care professionals throughout the United States.
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