About Napoli Shkolnik
Napoli Shkolnik PLLC is a national plaintiffs' litigation firm founded by Paul J. Napoli (1967-2026) and Marie Napoli, handling mass tort, environmental contamination, opioid crisis, 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, medical malpractice, and personal injury cases for individuals, families, and municipalities across the country. The firm has been at the forefront of landmark opioid settlements worth billions of dollars and the Flint Water Crisis litigation.
Proven verdicts and settlements won by Napoli Shkolnik
As court-appointed co-lead plaintiffs' counsel in AFFF MDL 2873, Paul J. Napoli of Napoli Shkolnik negotiated a settlement requiring 3M Company to pay up to $12.5 billion to public water systems contaminated by PFAS compounds in firefighting foam, the largest drinking-water settlement in American legal history.
As court-appointed co-lead counsel in AFFF MDL 2873, Paul J. Napoli of Napoli Shkolnik helped negotiate a $1.185 billion class settlement with DuPont, Chemours, and Corteva to compensate public water systems across the United States for PFAS contamination tied to firefighting foam.
Hunter Shkolnik of Napoli Shkolnik represented Nassau County in negotiations that produced a $1.1 billion settlement with McKesson, Cardinal Health, and AmerisourceBergen, the three largest prescription drug distributors in the United States.
Paul Napoli served as court-appointed co-liaison counsel for nearly 10,000 firefighters, police officers, and construction workers who developed respiratory diseases after working at Ground Zero, securing a settlement worth up to $712.5 million against the city and its contractors.
Hunter Shkolnik of Napoli Shkolnik served as court-appointed co-liaison counsel for individual plaintiffs in the consolidated federal Flint water litigation, which produced a $600 million settlement from the State of Michigan in 2020.
A Virginia jury awarded $21.8 million to the family of Randall Redford, a maintenance-of-way worker who died of Acute Myeloid Leukemia after 38 years of diesel-exhaust exposure on Norfolk Southern's tracks, with Napoli Shkolnik attorney Chris Schnieders securing the verdict under FELA.
Joseph Napoli of Napoli Shkolnik won a $1.6 million total judgment for a hotel guest sexually assaulted by an unregistered massage therapist the Sixty Lower East Side provided without any background check.
After a six-month trial, a Suffolk County jury on December 30, 2021 found Teva Pharmaceuticals liable for creating a public nuisance through deceptive opioid marketing, one of the first such verdicts against a manufacturer anywhere in the country.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
Attorneys at Napoli Shkolnik
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