{"id":2461,"date":"2018-04-24T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T19:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/pfoa-pfos-water-contamination-lawsuit-filed-in-hyannis\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:26:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:26:42","slug":"pfoa-pfos-water-contamination-lawsuit-filed-in-hyannis","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/whitepapers\/pfoa-pfos-water-contamination-lawsuit-filed-in-hyannis\/","title":{"rendered":"PFOA\/PFOS Water Contamination Lawsuit Filed in Hyannis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"\/article\/pfoa-pfos-water-contamination-class-action-filed-in-ma\/\">lawsuit<\/a> names as defendants five manufacturers of firefighting foams containing perfluorinated chemicals PFOS and PFOA, which are believed to have contaminated wells serving residents in <a href=\"\/practice-areas\/environmental-litigation\/pfc-water-contamination-massachussets\/\">Hyannis, Hyannisport and West Hyannisport<\/a>. The foams were previously used at the nearby Barnstable County<br \/>\nFire and Rescue Training Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs are seeking the establishment of a medical monitoring protocol, which would allow members of the class action suit to receive medical testing for<br \/>\ndiseases potentially connected to their exposure to the water at the defendants\u2019 expense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe idea is that you shouldn\u2019t have to pay for the testing,\u201d Napoli Shkolnik <a href=\"\/napoli-attorney\/louise-r-caro-fl\/\">Louise Caro<\/a> said. \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t have to pay for testing for these diseases that are attributed to the exposure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawsuit names as defendants five manufacturers of firefighting foams containing perfluorinated chemicals PFOS and PFOA, which are believed to have contaminated wells serving residents in Hyannis, Hyannisport and West&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":417,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[81,96],"whitepaper-source":[223],"class_list":["post-2461","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-louise-caro","whitepaper_category-pfoa-water-contamination","whitepaper-source-cape-cod-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}