The Georgia Supreme Court heard testimony Tuesday on a key question in litigation surrounding BioLab, the Conyers chemical facility that caught fire in 2024.
The court is set to decide whether residents exposed to toxic chemicals in the air can force a company to pay for long term medical monitoring — even if they haven’t shown medical symptoms yet.
BioLab, and its parent company KIK Consumer Products, came under fire is September of 2024 when water leaked into one of its warehouses, causing a major chemical fire, closing a major highway and spurring evacuation orders for roughly 17,000 Rockdale County residents, while thousands more sheltered-in-place.
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