Chemours’ Fraud Charges Against DuPont Could Aid PFAS Damages Claims

The Chemours Company’s recently unsealed suit alleging DuPont, from which it was spun off, fraudulently underestimated the new entity’s liabilities from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), could aid states and other parties as they pursue billions of dollars of damages claims related to PFAS contamination. In Chemours v. DuPont , a suit pending before a Delaware court, Chemours alleges that when DuPont spun-off the new entity in 2015, it either engaged in a “sham” process by demonstrating the new...