{"id":2770,"date":"2021-01-08T20:47:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/law360-quotes-paul-napoli-on-17-5m-afff-settlement\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:41:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:41:44","slug":"law360-quotes-paul-napoli-on-17-5m-afff-settlement","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/whitepapers\/law360-quotes-paul-napoli-on-17-5m-afff-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Law360 Quotes Paul Napoli on $17.5M AFFF Settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Johnson Controls entity agreed to pay $17.5 million to resolve claims from hundreds of homeowners in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, that their water was contaminated by chemicals in a firefighting foam, in what attorneys said Thursday is the first agreement of its kind in sprawling multidistrict litigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This settlement marks a significant step in victims&#8217; efforts to secure just compensation for those impacted by PFAS contamination caused by [firefighting foam] AFFF,&#8221; Paul Napoli, an attorney with Napoli Shkolnik PLLC, who represents the plaintiffs, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"download-button\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/15dP1tBVK8wrjjLCXU8vqJ9bK7G29wjpF\/preview\" download=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Johnson Controls entity agreed to pay $17.5 million to resolve claims from hundreds of homeowners in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, that their water was contaminated by chemicals in a firefighting foam,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":120,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[96,275,306,388],"whitepaper-source":[63],"class_list":["post-2770","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-pfoa-water-contamination","whitepaper_category-environmental-contamination","whitepaper_category-pfas","whitepaper_category-firefighting-foam","whitepaper-source-law360"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2770","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\/2770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.napolilaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}