WEITZ & LUXENBERG, P.C.
Law Firm Devoted to the Client
Law firm founded on principles.
The Weitz & Luxenberg law firm was built on a philosophy that every client's case is the most important, and that each of our clients deserves our very best work.
After 23 years of practice involving dangerous drugs, medical malpractice, general negligence, and toxic substances, among others, the firm continues to set an unmatched standard of excellence for mass tort litigation, achieving more verdicts than most firms in America. We are also the largest personal injury and mass tort plaintiffs’ firm in New York.
History of Success
Our Drug and Medical Device Litigation unit has won numerous cases involving dangerous pharmaceuticals, achieving a $13.5 million verdict against Merck & Co. the makers of Vioxx. The firm’s other active pharmaceutical litigations include actions against the manufacturers of Bextra, ReNu, Ortho Evra, Gadolinium dye, Stryker Hip Implants and Medtronic's Sprint Fidelis Leads.
Landmark Asbestos Cases
Such work builds on the firm's very first area of litigation, asbestos, where it established itself with landmark cases dating back to 1991. It was then that we won a historic consolidated trial involving men who had worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in the 1940s and 1950s. Weitz & Luxenberg represented 36 clients in that case, securing verdicts of $75 million. Recent victories include a jury verdict in May 2007 of $37 million for two smokers with lung cancer who had been exposed to asbestos.
Along the path to such successes, the 60 lawyers at Weitz & Luxenberg continually work with the needs of society in mind, recently expanding work on behalf of communities whose underground water supplies are contaminated by chemical plants, oil companies, and factories around their houses.
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