Our attorneys won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit for a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) maintenance man who selected us to represent him in his lawsuit. Our client spent more than 35 years working on maintaining the HVAC system for his employer, a utility company. We were able to establish that he was employed in an…

The attorneys at Weitz & Luxenberg recently won a multimillion-dollar settlement for a New Jersey man after his work exposed him to hazardous asbestos. He was exposed due to both the equipment he worked on and the environment he worked in. We helped him get justice. He contracted the deadly cancer, mesothelioma, while working in…

After a lifetime as a union carpenter, working on commercial buildings in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania areas, our client and his wife retired to Florida to enjoy a life of golf together. This was destroyed when the carpenter received the devastating news that he had mesothelioma, an incurable form of cancer. One of our…

A medical doctor worked hard all his life and became a successful businessman. Then tragedy struck and he was diagnosed with mesothelioma — a terrible cancer. Exposure to products containing asbestos that began in his childhood, continued through construction jobs, and even occurred while he did lab work during pharmacy school all contributed to his…

Weitz & Luxenberg attorneys Benno Ashrafi and Leonard Sandoval recently secured a $25 million dollar trial verdict for Houshang Sabetian, a former Iranian oil refinery worker who developed testicular mesothelioma as the result of asbestos exposure while working at oil refineries and fields in Iran. The jury awarded $14 million to Mr. Sabetian for his…

Weitz & Luxenberg was recognized as a National Tier 1 firm in the 2019 “Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions – Plaintiffs” category by U.S. News & World Report – Best Lawyers. The firm was recognized in the same category regionally in both New York City and New Jersey, and for Personal Injury Litigation in New York…

Our client was repeatedly exposed to underground asbestos cement water and sewer pipe products during his employment as an underground pipe layer. When those products caused our client’s death from mesothelioma, our attorneys at Weitz & Luxenberg fought to get him compensation from the manufacturers of those deadly products. “Our client’s wish was to provide…

During his 14 years of service in the U.S. Navy, our client was constantly handling parts and equipment containing asbestos and exposed to the dust on these parts and equipment. Because of this repeated exposure, our client contracted malignant mesothelioma. He contacted Weitz & Luxenberg for legal representation. Our team of lawyers worked with him…

As soon as this 60+ year-old Pennsylvania power plant employee received a diagnosis of pleural mesothelioma, he reached out to Weitz & Luxenberg for legal help. And it’s a good thing he did. He reached out because he learned that his fatal cancer was caused by only one thing —exposure to asbestos. And that exposure…

Weitz & Luxenberg attorneys Mark Bratt, Leonard Sandoval, and Benno Ashrafi recently secured a significant trial verdict for the family of Alfred Mata, who developed malignant mesothelioma as a result of his father Francisco’s work with water pipes that contained asbestos. Successful Verdict After a 12-day trial, a Long Beach, California jury awarded $11.4 million…