{"id":5779,"date":"2016-09-13T18:38:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T22:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/practiceareas\/pfoa-water-contamination-pennsylvania\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T16:54:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T20:54:21","slug":"pfoa-agua-contaminacion-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"practiceareas","link":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/areas-de-practica-2\/pfoa-agua-contaminacion-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"PFOA Water Contamination &#8211; Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10044\" src=\"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AWWA-Member-240x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\">Durante d\u00e9cadas, quienes vivieron y trabajaron en la Base de Reserva Conjunta de la Estaci\u00f3n A\u00e9rea Naval de Willow Grove, la Estaci\u00f3n de la Guardia A\u00e9rea de Horsham y el Centro de Guerra A\u00e9rea Naval se quejaron de que el agua que sal\u00eda de sus grifos los enfermaba. Estas quejas cayeron en gran medida en o\u00eddos sordos hasta mayo de 2016, cuando la Agencia de Protecci\u00f3n Ambiental esencialmente aconsej\u00f3 a los residentes del \u00e1rea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2016-05\/documents\/pfoa_health_advisory_final-plain.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no beber el agua<\/a>, porque estaba mezclado con grandes cantidades de \u00e1cido perfluorooctanoico (PFOA), un qu\u00edmico industrial relacionado con varias enfermedades a largo plazo. Por lo tanto, los residentes actuales y anteriores ahora est\u00e1n en condiciones de obtener una compensaci\u00f3n por sus lesiones y responsabilizar por sus acciones a las entidades que ensuciaron sus entornos pac\u00edficos. Pero debe actuar r\u00e1pido, antes de que el problema empeore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/our-attorneys\/\">N\u00e1poles Shkolnik PLLC<\/a> es una voz fuerte para las v\u00edctimas en situaciones como estas. Transmitimos su historia de una manera que la gente seguramente escuchar\u00e1, tanto en la sala del tribunal como en la mesa de negociaciones. Eso es porque entendemos nuestro papel dual en estas situaciones. Tenemos la intenci\u00f3n de obtener la m\u00e1xima compensaci\u00f3n para las v\u00edctimas y ayudar a garantizar que las corporaciones no puedan devastar nuestro medio ambiente para su propio beneficio o para su propia conveniencia, porque nosotros tambi\u00e9n vivimos aqu\u00ed.<\/p>\n<h2>\u00bfQu\u00e9 es el PFOA?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Water-District-PFC-Contamination-Digital.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-10711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Medium-300x250PFC-MK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"417\"><\/a><br \/>\nCurrent and former residents of Montgomery and Bucks Counties have probably heard a lot about perfluorooctanoic acid, but many people may not know exactly what this substance is or what dangers it can cause.<\/p>\n<p>PFOA is an industrial chemical that\u2019s widely used in many consumer products, including nonstick cookware, water-repellant clothes, and stain-resistant carpet, because it forms an invisible barrier between two objects. So, between about 1950 and 1990, the government used it at military bases in firefighting foam. The chemical is extremely stable, which makes it easy to use in industrial applications and also means that it remains in the environment for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>For the millions of people who live northwest of Philadelphia, and in <a href=\"\/practice-areas\/environmental-litigation\/westhampton\/\"><u>otras areas<\/u><\/a> as well, that means because small amounts of PFOA from firefighting foam leaked into the area\u2019s cooking and drinking water supply, they ingested poison without even knowing it.<\/p>\n<p>At extremely low amounts, PFOA is essentially harmless. But at even slightly elevated amounts, PFOA has been linked to a number of <a href=\"\/practice-areas\/personal-injury\/\">condiciones de salud graves y cr\u00f3nicas<\/a>, incluido:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cancer testicular,<\/li>\n<li>Bajo peso al nacer,<\/li>\n<li>Cancer de RI\u00d1ON,<\/li>\n<li>Sistema inmunol\u00f3gico d\u00e9bil,<\/li>\n<li>Enfermedad de tiroides,<\/li>\n<li>Colesterol alto,<\/li>\n<li>Enfermedad del higado,<\/li>\n<li>Preeclampsia (presi\u00f3n arterial alta durante el embarazo), y<\/li>\n<li>Colitis ulcerosa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Miles de personas ya han presentado demandas por da\u00f1os contra empresas qu\u00edmicas, como DuPont, que utiliz\u00f3 PFOA en productos de consumo, y estas demandas pueden ser solo el comienzo de la historia.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00bfCu\u00e1nto tiempo tengo para demandar?<\/h3>\n<p>Injured Pennsylvanians normally have two years to file tort claims to obtain compensation for their injuries. However, in PFOA cases, that does not mean two years after the first sip of contaminated water.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery rule states that victims have two years to sue after they learn about their damages and learn that PFOA may have caused them. However, the discovery rule is not a magic cure-all for legal issues with a claim. Instead, it is only a tool for aggressive personal injury attorneys to use in court.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00bfQu\u00e9 da\u00f1os est\u00e1n disponibles?<\/h3>\n<p>PFOA contamination victims in Pennsylvania are usually entitled to significant compensation, because of the serious nature of the injuries they sustain. This compensation includes money for monetary losses, including medical bills, as well as nonmonetary losses, such as pain and suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, many juries award significant punitive damages in these cases, to punish the tortfeasor (negligent actor) for relentlessly pursuing a course of conduct that put other people in danger.<\/p>\n<p>PFOA water contamination may cause serious injury. For a free consultation with an <a href=\"\/contact-us\/\">abogado con experiencia en lesiones personales en Nueva York<\/a>, p\u00f3ngase en contacto con Napoli Shkolnik PLLC. No cobramos honorarios legales por adelantado en casos de negligencia.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the who lived and work on and around Willow Grove Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base, the Horsham Air Guard Station, and the Naval Air Warfare Center complained that&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":5726,"menu_order":155,"template":"","practiceareas_category":[744],"class_list":["post-5779","practiceareas","type-practiceareas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","practiceareas_category-environmental-litigation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/practiceareas\/5779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/practiceareas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/practiceareas"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/practiceareas\/5779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"practiceareas_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/practiceareas_category?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}