Nationally known law firm Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. secured a verdict of $5.2 million in damages on behalf of an 82-year-old Orange County, California, man and his wife who sued a Fortune 500 company they charged with contributing to his increased risk of developing mesothelioma. Fluor Corporation and two of its subsidiaries were found to…

Weitz & Luxenberg was able to secure a large financial settlement for our client who lived and worked in New Jersey. During his lifetime, our client was repeatedly exposed to products containing asbestos. He developed mesothelioma cancer from that exposure and died at the age of 74. Our attorneys secured the settlement collectively from more…

A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury this month handed Hennessy Industries, Inc. as successor to AMMCO Tools, Inc., its first-ever loss in an asbestos-exposure lawsuit despite the defendant company’s self-assurances that the grieving family of an Army veteran and automotive parts store owner who died of mesothelioma had no chance of winning, victorious plaintiffs’…

A multimillion-dollar settlement was awarded to the family of a New Jersey woman who was exposed to asbestos dust and contracted both pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma cancer. Attorneys at Weitz & Luxenberg have negotiated a total of $17 billion in verdicts and settlements for our clients. Her initial exposure came from working as a child…

Weitz & Luxenberg is committed not only to offering the most aggressive trial representation possible, but also to achieving justice for our clients when trial courts unjustly turn away their cases. Mesothelioma victim Johnny Kesner Jr.’s California suit is a case in point. The defendant claimed it bore no responsibility for the mesothelioma Mr. Kesner…

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…