US EditionDuPont Agrees to $27M Settlement in Hoosick Falls Water Contamination Lawsuit
HOOSICK FALLS, NEW YORK, JUL 11 – The settlement includes $6 million for medical monitoring and $8 million for contaminated private wells, with total class action recoveries exceeding $90 million, lawyers said.
- DuPont agreed in July 2021 to a $27 million settlement resolving a nearly decade-long lawsuit over water contamination in Hoosick Falls, New York.
- The lawsuit, filed in 2016 and expanded in 2018 to include DuPont and 3M, claimed a local Teflon coating facility contaminated the water with PFOA, a persistent harmful chemical.
- The settlement allocated close to $21 million to property owners based on their land’s 2015 assessed value, approximately $8 million to renters with wells that were contaminated, and provided $6 million to support a decade-long medical monitoring program for residents exposed to the chemicals.
- Stephen Schwarz, co-lead counsel, expressed satisfaction in concluding what they consider the ultimate settlement of this matter, which is expected to deliver substantial advantages to the people living in Hoosick Falls and the surrounding Town of Hoosick, pending approval from a federal judge.
- The lawsuit raised awareness of PFOA’s health risks, including kidney and testicular cancer, and this settlement pushed total class action recoveries over $90 million.
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Chemical maker DuPont has agreed to a $27 million settlement to resolve a nearly decade-long lawsuit over the contamination of an upstate New York village’s water supply.
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Chemical maker DuPont agrees to $27M settlement in polluted water lawsuit in upstate New York
Chemical maker DuPont has agreed to a $27 million settlement to resolve a nearly decade-long lawsuit over the contamination of an upstate New York village’s water supply.
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