It was wrong that three hard working, blue collar New York State construction workers should die of mesothelioma, and a New York Supreme Court jury said so by awarding $12.5 million dollars to their families last Tuesday. The jury decided that Harry Brown (a career Local 12 asbestos insulator), Patrick McCloskey (a career Local 638…

A lifetime of working around aircraft and automobile parts gave our client pleural mesothelioma, a deadly cancer. Using detailed research and hard negotiating skills, our Weitz & Luxenberg attorneys were able to get his family a multimillion-dollar total settlement from the companies responsible for his cancer. W&L attorneys have won verdicts and settlements for our…

A Suffolk Co. politician and hero of the labor community in Long Island became the recipient of a substantial legal settlement in September when Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. resolved his case against the makers of asbestos-contaminated equipment and products, the firm said. William Lindsay, of Glen Cove, Long Island, served in the Suffolk Co. Legislature…

W&L won a landmark trial for mesothelioma victims at the end of July 2013. The eleven-week trial culminated in a $190 million verdict, the largest for a consolidated asbestos case in New York history. The case is the most recent sizeable success for the firm, which has earned billions since it was established more than…

Mass tort and personal injury litigation firm Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. today announced a verdict in the case of Ivo John Peraica, an asbestos removal worker who died in December from cancer caused by asbestos. The New York Supreme Court jury that heard Peraica’s case returned its verdict Friday, awarding $35 million to the Croatian-born…

In the 1970s and 1980s a construction worker helped install underground water and sewer lines in California. This was his regular job, the way he made a living and fed his family. The lines included pipes manufactured with asbestos. Using asbestos meant the pipes would be easier to make and cheaper to produce (increasing profit…

Weitz & Luxenberg has reached a settlement in a major asbestos case, achieving an extremely favorable result for a recent mesothelioma client. This result follows in the footsteps of several other mesothelioma cases in which Weitz & Luxenberg has earned its clients substantial verdicts and settlements. Leonard Feldman spearheaded the effort, leading a team whose…

On June 21, Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., the nation’s premier asbestos law firm, was victorious in an asbestos-related lung cancer trial against defendants, The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company and Goodyear Canada. After a five- week jury trial in New York State Supreme Court, the jury returned a verdict on behalf of both Weitz & Luxenberg clients,…

Our client fought for his country while serving in the U.S. Navy. And Weitz & Luxenberg fought for him, negotiating a large financial settlement after he was diagnosed with mesothelioma. We have negotiated verdicts and settlements for our clients totaling $8 billion. Mesothelioma Strikes Veteran Married for nearly 50 years, this Hillsdale, New Jersey, resident…

A retired boilermaker from New York who was diagnosed with asbestos lung cancer chose Weitz & Luxenberg asbestos attorneys to obtain compensation from the asbestos companies that recklessly exposed him to asbestos. To date, Weitz & Luxenberg asbestos lawyers have secured about $3,800,000 in settlement proceeds. Exposed to Asbestos Decades Ago The man was first…