Publication Source Archive: New York Newsday

More than 80 current and former residents of Bethpage or their estates have filed a new lawsuit against Northrop Grumman alleging that contaminants from the company’s former site have lead to specific medical injuries and death,according to court records. That action seeks $500 million in damages for residents’ past and continued exposure to the contaminants.…Read the article

The suits claim the businesses fueled the opioid epidemic through a fraudulent marketing campaign that misrepresented the drugs’ safety and effectiveness. They seek compensation for the governmental costs of dealing with opioid addiction, which include higher expenditures on Medicaid, rehabilitation programs, law enforcement and even a greater number of autopsies. Paul Napoli of Manhattan’s Napoli…Read the article

Napoli Shkolnik, which has an office in Melville, filed the lawsuit in state Supreme Court against several defendants who allegedly contaminated wells in the Hampton Bays Water District. The firm previously represented the town and the water district in a federal lawsuit against the manufacturers of fuel additive MTBE that contaminated Long Island groundwater and…Read the article

The Southampton Town Board plans to hire Napoli Shkolnik PLLC to represent them in a PFOA/PFOS public water well contamination case. Our law firm previously represented the water district and town in groundwater contamination case involved fuel additive MTBE. The settlement from that case is now helping to filter out the PFOS from the Hampton…Read the article