When contamination reaches a community's drinking water, soil, or workplace, the people affected are usually the last to find out.
Silver Golub & Teitell (SGT) represents residents, workers, and communities across New England whose health and property have been harmed by toxic chemicals and holds companies responsible for the harm they caused.
What Are Environmental Class Actions?
Environmental contamination rarely harms one person at a time. It reaches an entire neighborhood drawing on the same groundwater, every customer of a water utility, or a whole workforce issued the same equipment. A class action lets those affected pursue their claims together, making it possible to take on corporate polluters and to seek remedies, such as long-term medical monitoring, that individual lawsuits rarely achieve.
SGT is at the forefront of litigation over per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the "forever chemicals" linked to cancer and other serious health effects, as well as benzene and other carcinogens. The firm's environmental cases include matters involving PFAS contamination of private wells and soil in a New England community, PFAS in public water supplies serving hundreds of thousands of Connecticut residents, and PFAS in the protective turnout gear worn by firefighters.
Proving these cases means tracing contamination back to its source and establishing what it does to human health. SGT works with environmental scientists, toxicologists, and medical experts, litigates in both state and federal courts, and has the persistence to sustain hard-fought cases against large corporate defendants.
A successful environmental class action can recover the cost of remediation and lost property value, fund long-term medical monitoring for people facing an increased risk of disease and require a company to stop the contamination and clean up what it left behind.
These cases are brought on behalf of people who share a common exposure: homeowners whose wells or soil have been contaminated, customers of a public water system, or workers exposed to toxic chemicals on the job. SGT represents residents, property owners, workers, and communities throughout New England.
SGT takes on emerging environmental issues before other firms are willing to, and has won rulings that expand what people harmed by contamination can recover.
Contact Our Class Action Lawyers About Your Case
To learn more about your rights, call SGT at (203) 325-4491 or contact us online to speak with a Connecticut class action lawyer about your case. An SGT attorney will review your information and may follow up to discuss how the firm can help.
