PFAS Water Contamination Lawsuit Attorney in Parkersburg, West Virginia

Parkersburg, WV sits adjacent to DuPont's Washington Works plant — the origin of the entire PFAS personal injury litigation ecosystem. DuPont discharged PFOA-containing waste into Dry Run Creek and the Ohio River from the 1950s through the early 2000s, contaminating the drinking water of communities on both sides of the Ohio River. The 2004 C8 class settlement required DuPont to fund the C8 Health Project — the most comprehensive human PFAS health study ever conducted — which studied over 69,000 Parkersburg-area residents and documented the causal links between PFOA and kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease, ulcerative colitis, high cholesterol, and pregnancy complications. Rob Bilott's landmark litigation from 1998 onward produced the disclosure of DuPont's concealed internal studies, the C8 Health Project, and ultimately DuPont's $671 million personal injury settlement in 2017 covering approximately 3,500 claimants. Parkersburg-area residents who developed PFAS-linked conditions after the 2017 settlement cutoff, or who were not included in the settlement class, may have new individual claims under West Virginia's 2-year statute from the date of their post-settlement diagnosis.