{"id":2423,"date":"2018-03-16T18:18:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T22:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/palm-beach-county-selects-napoli-shkolnik-for-opioid-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:25:25","slug":"palm-beach-county-selects-napoli-shkolnik-for-opioid-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/whitepapers\/palm-beach-county-selects-napoli-shkolnik-for-opioid-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm Beach County Selects Napoli Shkolnik for Opioid Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palm Beach County has joined a growing legal battle against drug companies to recoup the costs of fighting an opioid epidemic that is killing more than 1,000 people every year in South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners voted 4-2 Tuesday to select a legal team consisting of The Ferraro Law Firm; Napoli Shkolnik PLLC; and Stull, Stull &amp; Brody.<\/p>\n<p>Lawsuits aimed at the pharmaceutical industry have accused drug companies of misleading patients and doctors about the dangers of prescription medication, producing a public health emergency that is straining government services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing these companies truly understand is money,\u201d said Paul Napoli, one of the lawyers who will be representing the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palm Beach County has joined a growing legal battle against drug companies to recoup the costs of fighting an opioid epidemic that is killing more than 1,000 people every year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":455,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[59,75,166],"whitepaper-source":[201],"class_list":["post-2423","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-paul-napoli","whitepaper_category-opioids-litigation","whitepaper_category-florida-opioid-lawyers","whitepaper-source-sun-sentinel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}