2008-05-29 17:29:20 -
www.weitzlux.com - Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. (www.weitzlux.com), known for achieving landmark verdicts and settlements in asbestos suits, is pleased to announce that attorney Frank M. Ortiz has joined the firm as a member of its Asbestos Litigation Unit.
"Weitz & Luxenberg has an outstanding reputation as one of the country's premiere asbestos litigation firms," said Mr. Ortiz. "This will
surely be the perfect extension of the work I have done in the past that I have been most proud of, which centered on helping clients whose lives were upended by the diseases they sustained from exposure to asbestos."
A former prosecutor for the New York County District Attorneys' Violent Predator Task Force, Mr. Ortiz's private trial practice has focused on cases involving asbestos, toxic torts, products liability and drug litigation.
Mr. Ortiz has successfully tried cases that have resulted in several multi-million dollar verdicts. Two of those cases involved the New York State Brooklyn Navy Yard Consolidation and the New York State Powerhouse Consolidation. Both were cited in the National Law Journal's Largest Verdicts list as the largest asbestos consolidations ever brought to trial at the time those cases were adjudicated. As fate would have it, Weitz & Luxenberg founder Perry Weitz and lead attorneys Robert Gordon and Jerry Kristal tried those cases alongside Ortiz, who didn't know at the time he would eventually work with them in the same legal practice.
Weitz & Luxenberg will afford Mr. Ortiz with the continued opportunity to prosecute those who have imperiled the public with the carcinogen asbestos. In May 2007, the firm obtained a jury verdict of $37 million for two smokers with lung cancer who had been exposed to asbestos (index #s 100016/99 and 113583/05, New York Supreme Court). The defendant was Robert A. Keasbey Company, a former insulation contractor and distributor of asbestos products. In 2006, the firm secured a $25 million jury verdict in a trial against DaimlerChrysler AG for a New York City brake reliner who lost his right lung to mesothelioma.
People who have been harmed by asbestos can contact Weitz & Luxenberg via our website, www.weitzlux.com.
About Weitz & Luxenberg P.C.
Weitz & Luxenberg, founded in 1986, is one of the leading plaintiffs' law firms in America. The firm has also played leading roles in national and local litigations involving asbestos, DES, silicone breast implants, medical malpractice, and general negligence, among others. A forerunner in the legal fight against environmental polluters, Weitz & Luxenberg has worked with clients harmed by MTBE and mercury, among other toxins. The firm has won numerous cases involving dangerous pharmaceuticals, including Vioxx, achieving a $13.5 million verdict against Merck & Co. The firm's other active pharmaceutical litigations include actions against the manufacturers of Bextra, ReNu, Celebrex, Ortho Evra and Seroquel.
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