About Tia Garcia

Tia Garcia is a senior associate working in the Personal Injury Department. She previously worked in medical malpractice and insurance defense, and now concentrates on securing compensation for injured clients. She also investigates COVID-related nursing home resident deaths in New York, pursuing negligence claims against facilities that failed to adopt critical safety protocols to protect at-risk residents.

Representative results include a $290,000 settlement for the family of an elderly woman who contracted COVID-19 in a long-term care facility, and a $480,000 settlement for a nursing home resident who fell and suffered a broken arm. During law school at Case Western Reserve University, she helped reactivate the Hispanic Law Student Association. She earned her J.D. from Case Western Reserve University and her B.A. from the University of Cincinnati.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Napoli Shkolnik

These results are credited to Napoli Shkolnik. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

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.

D.S.C. (AFFF Products Liability MDL 2873, Judge Richard Gergel) · 2023Class ActionsRead the full story →

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.

D.S.C. (AFFF Products Liability MDL 2873, Judge Richard Gergel) · 2023Class ActionsRead the full story →

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.

New York State (National Prescription Opiate Litigation) · 2021Class ActionsRead the full story →

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.

S.D.N.Y. (Judge Alvin Hellerstein) · 2010Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

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.

E.D. Mich. (In re Flint Water Cases, 5:16-cv-10444, Judge Judith Levy) · 2020Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Case Western Reserve University School of Law
J.D.
University of Cincinnati
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of New York
State Bar of New Jersey

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