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Business Wire
a day ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Atropos Health Continues Commitment to Advancements in Oncology with Addition of Key Personnel
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Atropos Health, the leader in generating personalized real-world evidence (RWE) from real-world clinical data, today announced key personnel and product features enhancing their Oncology solutions. The company previously announced the expansion of the Oncology MultiModal Network in the Atropos Evidence™ Network with the addition of Ontada's community oncology real-world data (RWD). In addition to the growth of the Atropos Evidence Network, Atropos Health is also adding key personnel to enhance the oncology focus: Cory D. Wiegert joins as Chief Operating Officer, bringing over 25 years of experience leading innovation and product development in enterprise software and healthcare IT including the launch of a cloud-based, AI-driven decision platform. His extensive background also includes overseeing the industry's largest dataset for value-based, specialty care at Integra Connect and leadership roles at CancerLinQ, IBM Watson Health, and Siebel Systems. Dr. Morgan Cheatham joins the Atropos Health Board of Directors as a Board Observer bringing extensive expertise as Partner and Head of Healthcare and Life Sciences for Breyer Capital, where he leads investments across various sectors, including AI. Previously at Bessemer Venture Partners, he spearheaded early-stage investments in companies like Abridge and Hinge Health. Cheatham is also pursuing a fellowship in Clinical Genetics at Harvard/Boston Children's, serves on the Editorial Team for NEJM AI and Board Director for Coalition for Health AI, and has published research on clinical AI and genetic medicine in leading journals. Jason Jones heads Data Science at Atropos Health bringing extensive experience as the former Chief Data Scientist at Health Catalyst and a Research Scientist and VP at Kaiser Permanente. His background also includes significant roles in medical informatics at Intermountain Healthcare and leadership positions at Bayer HealthCare and UnitedHealth Group. "We're investing heavily in both product and personnel when it comes to applying RWE to oncology practice and research and development," said Dr. Brigham Hyde, CEO and co-founder at Atropos Health. "Bringing on additional Oncology-specific expertise signals our further investment and commitment to advancing life saving treatments in oncology. " Along with the Ontada partnership, existing partner Norstella is now also an additional source of RWD for the Oncology MultiModal network in the Atropos Evidence Network, further enhancing the market leading federated oncology evidence network. About Atropos Health Atropos Health is the developer of GENEVA OS™, the operating system for rapid healthcare evidence across a robust network of real-world data. Healthcare and life science organizations work with Atropos Health to close evidence gaps from bench to bedside, improving individual patient outcomes with data-driven care, expediting research that advances the field of medicine, and more. We aim to transform healthcare with timely, relevant real-world evidence. To learn more about Atropos Health, visit or connect through LinkedIn or follow on X (Twitter) @AtroposHealth.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
German court rejects landmark Peruvian climate case
A German court rejected a landmark climate case against energy giant RWE, but said that companies can be held liable for the impacts of their emissions. The case was brought by a Peruvian farmer, who alleged that RWE — for more than a century one of Europe's biggest electricity producers — contributed disproportionately to climate change, which in turn melted glaciers that now threaten the farmer's property. Although the court did not consider the threat to the farmer's property as imminent, the ruling nonetheless represents a tailwind for lawsuits against fossil fuel companies. 'It is an immense historic shifting of the dial,' the farmer's lawyer told DW.
Local Germany
2 days ago
- Business
- Local Germany
German court sets climate precedent but rejects Peruvian farmer's claim
The judge in the case ruled that companies "may be obligated to take preventive measures" to counter their emissions, according to a statement from the higher regional court in Hamm. "If the polluter definitively refuses to do so, it could be determined, even before actual costs are incurred, that the polluter must bear the costs in proportion to their share of the emissions," the court concluded. The ruling supported arguments made by Saul Luciano Lliuya, who claimed that RWE, a global energy company headquartered in Germany, should pay towards the cost of protecting his hometown of Huaraz from a glacial lake swollen by melting snow and ice. RWE has never operated in Peru, but the 44-year-old farmer argued that, as one of the world's top emitters of carbon dioxide, the firm was partly responsible for the flood risk. The court, however, rejected Lliuya's claim against RWE, saying there was "no concrete danger to his property" from a potential flood. Lliuya, who did not attend the presentation of the verdict in person, said in a statement he was "disappointed" the court had not overall ruled in his favour. Saul Luciano Lliuya poses for a picture at his home in Llupa, Ancash department, Peru on May 28, 2025. (Photo by Jimmy Frank Adán Ramírez / AFP) But speaking to journalists in a video call from his hometown, the farmer said he was "very happy with the precedent" set by the ruling. Lliuya's lawyer Roda Verheyen said the court's reasoning showed "that large emitters can be held responsible for the consequences of their greenhouse gas emissions". The outcome of the case would "give a tailwind to climate lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, and thus to the move away from fossil fuels worldwide", she said. Advertisement 10-year legal fight RWE said in a statement it had "always considered such civil 'climate liability' to be inadmissible under German law". Establishing such a liability could make it hard to do business in Germany, "because it could ultimately allow for claims for climate-related damages being asserted against every German company anywhere in the world", it said. RWE had "always operated its plants in compliance with applicable law", it said. "It would be an irreconcilable contradiction if the state permitted CO2 emissions, regulated them in detail and in some instances even required them, but at the same time retroactively imposed civil liability for them." Lliuya first filed a lawsuit in 2015 at a court in the western city of Essen, where RWE has its headquarters, demanding 17,000 euros ($18,400) towards flood defences for his community. The Essen court dismissed the case, but in 2017 the higher district court in nearby Hamm allowed an appeal. Lliuya based his claim on a study that concluded that RWE, which today uses a variety of power sources including wind, coal and gas, has been responsible for 0.38 percent of all global carbon emissions since the start of the industrial era. Advertisement In Wednesday's ruling, however, the court said the chances of Lliuya's home being flooded in the next 30 years was "only about one percent" and that high waters would "not be able to endanger the structure of the house". The court in Hamm said the ruling was not open to appeal. Despite going no further, the verdict in the farmer's case "adds strength to a growing field of climate litigation", said Joana Setzer of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. "Over 60 cases around the world are currently seeking to hold companies liable for climate-related losses and damages," Setzer said. The decision by the court in Hamm would "a powerful precedent to support those efforts", she said.
Straits Times
2 days ago
- Business
- Straits Times
Why a Peruvian farmer's court loss may be a win for climate justice
Peruvian farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya sued German energy giant RWE, claiming it should pay for 0.5 per cent of the flood defences. PHOTO: AFP A decade-long court battle between a Peruvian farmer and German energy giant RWE over the company's global emissions and its impact on his hometown finally came to an end on May 28. The court threw out the case without the possibility of appeal. Despite that, the farmer, his lawyers and environmentalists are hailing the ruling as an unprecedented victory for climate cases that could spur similar lawsuits. What was the case about? The highland Peruvian city of Huaraz is at risk from a glacial lake outburst flood as glacial melt has caused the volume of Lake Palcacocha to increase by at least 34 times since 1970, requiring investment in dams and drainage structures. Peruvian farmer Saul Luciano Lliuya sued German energy giant RWE, claiming it should pay for 0.5 per cent of the flood defences since the company emitted 0.5 per cent of global emissions since the industrial revolution despite not having a physical presence in Peru. The amount would have come out to about US$17,500 (S$22,560). Why did the court rule against the farmer? The court decision was based on calculating the risk Mr Lliuya's home faced from flooding. An expert opinion found that the 30-year damage risk to the plaintiff's house was 1 per cent. The court deemed this was not enough to take the case further. How does the court ruling make companies liable in similar lawsuits? While Mr Lliuya's house's risk did not pass the threshold, the court said that companies could be held liable for the impacts of their emissions. 'They really established a legal duty, a legal principle of corporate climate liability, which no court has ever done anywhere else in the world in a verdict like this,' Noah Walker-Crawford, a researcher at London School of Economics, Grantham Research Institute, said in a press conference after the verdict. 'So this is a really, really historic decision.' The court ruling stated that civil courts can rule on climate cases and that the German Civil Code overseeing property rights applies across borders and therefore, litigants around the world can file transnational cases against German companies. The court noted that RWE's permits do not exempt it from liability when infringing on the rights of others and the size of its global emissions meant it had a special responsibility for consequences due to climate change. It noted that being one of many emitters does not shield a company from liability. What did the court say about climate change? The court said the link between emissions and risks dates back to 1958, when US scientist Charles Keeling published a graph of the annual variation and accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere. It added that the 1965 report by US President Lyndon B. Johnson's Science Advisory Committee that found burning fossil fuels increases atmospheric CO2 also gave companies enough information to foresee harmful consequences of emissions and bear legal responsibility for them. It added that there is a linear causation between emissions and climate change and the complexity of climate change science does not prevent liability. What does RWE say about the case? In a statement to Reuters, a spokesman for RWE said the ruling did not set a precedent as it is understood in the UK legal system, and it added three other regional courts have taken a different legal view. Since the case was thrown out, the court did not rule on whether and to what extent RWE could be held responsible, the statement said, adding that the company has operated in accordance with applicable laws and climate policy should be resolved at the political level. REUTERS Find out more about climate change and how it could affect you on the ST microsite here.
Canada Standard
3 days ago
- Business
- Canada Standard
BREAKING: Landmark German Court Ruling Could Bring Corporate Climate Liability to Canada
A landmark court ruling against a German utility could open the door to corporate liability for climate pollution in Canada, a leading environmental lawyer says. In Hamm, Germany earlier today, the Higher Regional Court ruled that major emitters can be held liable for the consequences of climate change, even though it threw out the specific civil case by Peruvian mountain guide Sal Luciano Lliuya against energy giant RWE. "Today the mountains have won," Luciano Lliuya declared. "Even if my case doesn't go any further, it has reached an important milestone, and that makes me proud. This ruling shows that the big polluters driving the climate [emergency] can finally be held legally responsible for the harm they have caused." While the judges concluded that the flood risk to Luciano Lliuya's home below a melting glacier was not sufficient to warrant compensation, "it confirmed for the first time that major emitters can be held liable under German civil law for risks resulting from climate change," Germanwatch wrote. "This sets a legal precedent with far-reaching implications, potentially influencing similar cases in countries like Switzerland and Belgium, and applicable in other jurisdictions such as the UK, the Netherlands, the USA, or Japan." Or in Canada, said Ecojustice Climate Director Charlie Hatt. "There is every chance this principle will eventually become a precedent in Canadian courts, as well," Hatt said in a release. "Investors and fossil execs take note-it is only a matter of time before the bill for climate harms will come due." Already, "as governments and large corporations fail to control their climate pollution, claimants are increasingly finding success holding them accountable in the courts, including examples like the youth-led Mathur case here in Canada," he added. "The principle is simple: it is wrong to produce and burn fossil fuels in excess of the limits defined by climate science because it harms people, and anyone harmed may get a legal remedy against the wrongdoers." International legal experts heaped praise on what Jasper Tuelings, strategic advisor at the Climate Litigation Network, declared a "historic judgement". "The Peruvian mountain guide has paved the way for a new era of holding fossil fuel companies accountable," said Sebastien Duyck, senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law. "For too long, these heavy emitters have been able to harm our environment with no regard to the consequences," but "that time is over," Ducyk said. "Sal's breakthrough opens up a well of opportunities for the more than 40 similar cases ongoing. It makes it more likely that those living at the sharp edge of climate change, such as Saul and his community, can succeed in holding heavy emitters to account for the damage they cause." Source: The Energy Mix
