WEITZ & LUXENBERG, P.C.
New York Law Firm in the News

Weitz & Luxenberg is a law firm that is proud to work for you. We continue to make national news headlines and rank among leading law firms in asbestos and mesothelioma, personal injury, and dangerous drug litigation.

Weitz & Luxenberg on National Law Journal's "Plaintiffs' Hot List"

Weitz & Luxenberg is featured in the National Law Journal`s "Plaintiffs' Hot List," a selection of twenty five go-to law firms for when the going gets tough.

$47 Million Award in Asbestos Case
The New York Times

Weitz & Luxenberg represented a pennsylvania dying of cancer. A Manhattan jury awarded him $47 million for medical expenses, pain and suffering after finding that work he had done in New York for Consolidated Edison and the Long Island Lighting Company had exposed him to asbestos, a carcinogen.

Halliburton Tries to Settle Asbestos Suits
Jonathan D. Glater

Lawyers from Weitz & Luxenberg representing both the company and plaintiffs outlined a strategy that would allow Halliburton to resolve tens of thousands of asbestos-related health claims it inherited when it bought Dresser Industries in 1998 — and resolve them without taking the usual step of having the whole company file for bankruptcy.

The Supreme Court considers an asbestos case
Anthony J. Sebok

Sometimes it is easy to see why the U.S. Supreme Court takes up certain cases, and sometimes the justices` motives are quite obscure.

Mom awarded $8.5 million, Hospital botched son's birth
Matt Leingang, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

A jury has awarded $8.5 million to a woman who claimed Rochester General Hospital caused irreparable damage to her baby by botching the delivery. "All the warning signs were there that this wasn't going to be a healthy delivery," said the plaintiff's attorney, Allan Zelikovic, with the firm of Weitz & Luxenberg in New York City.

Serzone User Sues Drug Maker
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., the world's fifth-largest drug maker by sales, was sued by an Ohio woman who claims the company`s anti-depressant drug Serzone can cause fatal liver damage and other injuries.

'Worldwide' Class Action Seeks Damages, Withdrawal of Serzone
Drug Recall Litigation Reporter

A federal class action lawsuit filed in Illinois seeks to establish a worldwide class of millions of people who have taken the anti-depressant Serzone since it went on the market in 1994. The drug has allegedly caused 23 cases of liver failure and 109 cases of liver damage. Sixteen of those users who developed liver failure either died or had to have a liver transplant, the plaintiffs claim. Galyean v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Inc., No. 02C 2748, complaint filed (N.D. Ill., Apr. 16, 2002).

Nationwide Class Action Against Makers of Serzone
Business Wire

On April 16, 2002, Kenneth B. Moll & Associates, Ltd., filed a nationwide class action lawsuit, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, against Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Inc., the manufacturer of Serzone (nefazodone hydrochloride).

News in Brief

-Perry Weitz has been selected as one of the "45 Under 45" by The American Lawyer magazine. This honor celebrates 45 attorneys under the age of 45 who are the rising stars of the private bar.

-State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has joined Weitz & Luxenberg as "of counsel". He was formerly of counsel at Schneider, Kleinick, Weitz, Damashek & Shoot, a personal injury firm. Partner Arthur Luxenberg said Mr. Silver will work on general negligence at the firm`s Manhattan office when the Assembly is not in session.

-Robert Gordon Appointed to State Court Advisory Committee in Baycol Multi-District Litigation by Federal Judge Davis

New York Jury Awards Meso Victim $53 Million
Mealey`s Litigation Report

In one of the largest compensatory verdicts in favor of a single plaintiff in the history of asbestos litigation, a New York jury on Feb. 8 awarded a mesothelioma victim and his family $53 million for his asbestos exposure as a brake mechanic. Representing the Browns are Jerry Kristal, Michael P. Roberts and Richard Meadow of Weitz & Luxenberg in New York.

Denise Dunleavy Chosen as One of Nation`s Top 50 Women Litigators
Margaret Cronin Fisk, National Law Journal

Fifty litigators who succeed in and out of the courthouse. This list represents not only the best litigators nationally, but the best litigators period.

Four Asbestos Plaintiffs Are Awarded $64.65 Million
National Law Journal

The prognosis for the four plaintiffs in this asbestos personal injury case is grim, according to their attorney, Robert J. Gordon. Each is expected to die soon from an incurable form of cancer.

$44 Million Awarded To Families Of Five Killed By Asbestos
National Law Journal

George Adinolfi was a sheet metal worker at various construction sites in New York from 1958 to 1965. In 1991, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lungs whose only known cause is exposure to asbestos. Mr. Adinolfi died the next year. He was 52 years old.

Brooklyn Navy Yard Asbestos Verdict
Tom Troy, National Law Journal

THE SUFFERING of an electrician who died of asbestos-related cancer after years of employment in New York`s power plants has prompted a jury to award his family $ 9.8 million.

Weitz & Luxenberg Wins Asbestos Powerhouse Verdict
National Law Journal

THROUGHOUT THE year there was a series of enormous plaintiffs` verdicts coming out of New York in asbestos personal injury cases. In the Brooklyn Navy Yard cases, federal juries in Manhattan awarded $ 30.7 million to 60 plaintiffs in January and $ 7.6 million to 15 plaintiffs in April. And a New York state jury awarded $ 75 million to 36 plaintiffs in March.

see also:

Mesothelioma $47 Million Record of Success: Mesothelioma Personal Injury Verdict Against Con Ed
Con Ed Mesothelioma Settlement and Verdict from Weitz & Luxenberg

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