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British Columbia Court Certifies Class Action Suit Against K-C

Impacts citizens injured by later-recalled flushable wipes in 2020

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By: Karen McIntyre

Editor, Nonwovens Industry

The Supreme Court of British Columbia has certified a class-action lawsuit against Kimberly-Clark Corp. on behalf of citizens who who claim to have suffered personal injury after using Kimberly-Clark’s Cottonelle Flushable Wipes and Cottonelle GentlePlus Flushable Wipes. The class that was certified were those people who purchased Kimberly-Clark’s wipes and were injured by those wipes, Slater Vecchio LLP lawyer Justin Giovannetti told BIV in an interview. The class that was not certified was the one that included people who simply purchased the wipes but were not injured, he adds.

Individuals with weakened immune systems are most vulnerable to being infected by Pluralibacter gergoviae, he adds.

Bowman testified that she began purchasing Kimberly-Clark’s flushable wipes in 2020 and provided a receipt for a large package purchased from Costco on July 17, 2020, according to the judgment.

“She deposed that she used the wipes several times a day because of underlying health conditions including ulcerative colitis,” Matthews wrote. “She deposed that she developed inflamed hair follicles and sores in her pubic region. She deposed that her pre-existing back and general body pain worsened. She also developed inflamed skin follicles in other areas where she uses the wipes including her mouth, nose, arms, breasts, and buttocks. She deposed that the inflammation is painful.”

Certification is the stage of a class action proceeding where the court determines whether a case should proceed as a class action. Class actions allow a group of individuals with similar claims to be represented collectively in a single lawsuit. The certification process does not make determinations on liability or damages.

“Next we have to give notice to all of the class members,” Giovannetti said. “Then, after that notice period expires, anybody who is a class member who did not opt out during that notice period, which typically is 90 days or so, they’re automatically class members.”

 

 

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