How a Law Firm Hid Evidence of Black Lung Disease

Jackson Kelly is the go-to law firm for the coal industry—and a new investigation reveals that it withheld evidence in order to deny claims from miners who suffered from black lung disease:

The judge who denied Fox’s claim in 2001, Edward Terhune Miller, recently retired and, in an interview with the Center, learned what had been shielded from him more than a decade earlier. His eyes widened, and, for a moment, he was speechless. “I’m utterly dumbfounded,” he said. “I just cannot conceive of attorneys doing that. … That’s really misleading the court. It’s misleading the witnesses. It’s tainting the witness testimony.”

Published: Oct 29, 2013
Length: 42 minutes (10,505 words)