Representative Cases and Settlements of Note

Posted on June 28, 2022, byPaul Napoli

In re: World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation, 21 MC 100 (AKH), United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Appointed Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel.  Napoli negotiated a historic settlement of more than ten thousand workers’ claims against the City of New York, its contractors and other defendants in the mass tort litigation where first responders, construction workers, and laborers became ill as a result of toxic exposures suffered during the debris removal and clean-up operations at the World Trade Center and related sites following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

In re: MTBE (Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether) Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1358, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Napoli attained more than $50 million in the settlement with ExxonMobil Corporation and other defendants on behalf of numerous municipalities and municipal water districts whose potable drinking water sources were endangered and contaminated by leaks of petroleum additive.

In Re: Nassau County Consolidated MTBE (Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether) Products Liability Litigation, Master Docket No.: 601516/09

Theodore Garille, Exec. Dir. for the Pascoag Util. Dist. v. Exxon Mobil Corp., et al. Providence Superior Ct., Case No. 02-2437 (Janice St. Ours v. Exxon Mobil Corp., et al. Providence Superior Ct., Case No. PC03-0079);

Gladys Marshall, et al., v. CSX Transportation, Inc., et al.;

In re: Diet Drug (Phentermine, fenfluramine, dexfenfluramine) Products Liability Litigation, United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Achieved a half-billion-dollar settlement on behalf of thousands of plaintiffs injured as a result of their ingestion of defective diet medications.

$52 Million Dollar Settlement for Environmental Contamination of Municipal Water Supplies of MTBE By Petroleum Refiners and Retailers

$875 Million Dollar Settlement on Behalf of Users of a Pharmaceutical That Caused Heart Defects

$118 Million Dollar Settlement on Behalf of Users of a Pharmaceutical that Caused Heart Defects

$220 Million Dollar Settlement on Behalf of Users of a Pharmaceutical that Caused Heart Defects

$712.5 Million Dollar Settlement of Injuries Sustained by Rescue and Recovery Workers at Ground Zero from Toxic Dust.

$24.5 Million Dollar Settlement of Injuries Sustained by Rescue and Recovery Workers at Ground Zero from Toxic Dust at Fresh Kills Landfill

$28 Million Dollar Settlement of Injuries Sustained by Rescue and Recovery Workers at Ground Zero from Toxic Dust While Working on the Barges and Piers

$47.5 Million Dollar Settlement of Injuries Sustained by Rescue and Recovery Workers at Ground Zero from Toxic Dust Recovered from The Port Authority Of New York and New Jersey