On October 13, 2026, Harford, P.C. filed another complaint on behalf of 22 claimants injured from the Summer 2025 Legionnaires’ Disease Outbreak in Harlem. The defendants named in the complaint are the building owners and parties charged with maintenance at Harlem Hospital and the adjoining NYC Public Health Lab. The bacteria that infected the claimants emanated from the cooling towers located within those two properties.
The filing now brings the number of filed cases by Harford, P.C. in this outbreak to forty-six (46) claimants with even more cases coming shortly.
The Harlem Legionnaires’ disease outbreak occurred last Summer. It afflicted at least 114 people with Legionnaires’ disease and caused 7 people to die. It represents the largest Legionnaires’ disease outbreak since the notorious Opera House Hotel outbreak in the South Bronx in 2015. Many of the people represented by Harford, P.C. have sustained permanent life altering injuries resulting from this outbreak.
Harford, P.C. is no stranger to litigations arising from legionella outbreaks in the New York and New Jersey communities. Scott A. Harford represents clients that suffered Legionnaires’ disease from the South Bronx Opera Hotel outbreak, the Sugar Hill outbreak in upper Manhattan, Co-Op City, a financial district residential building, various nursing homes in New York, NYCHA residential facilities, and multiple apartment complexes in New Jersey.
Harford, P.C. is also now investigating more recent Legionella outbreaks in the Upper East Side and South Bronx.
If you or someone you know has been injured by exposure to Legionella bacteria, we are here to help you.
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