Welcome to Robbins and Reynolds P.A.! $47 Million Award in Asbestos Case The New York Times   A Manhattan jury awarded a Pennsylvania man who is dying of cancer $47 million for medical expenses, pain and suffering on Wednesday after finding that work he had done in New York for Consolidated Edison and the Long Island Lighting Company had exposed him to asbestos, a carcinogen.   Halliburton Tries to Settle Asbestos Suits Jonathan D. Glater Lawyers representing both the company and plaintiffs outlined a strategy that would allow Halliburton to resolve tens of thousands of asbestos-related health claims it inherited when it bought Dresser Industries in 1998 — and resolve them without taking the usual step of having the whole company file for bankruptcy.   The Supreme Court considers an asbestos case Anthony J. Sebok Sometimes it is easy to see why the U.S. Supreme Court takes up certain cases, and sometimes the justices' motives are quite obscure.   Mom awarded $8.5 million, Hospital botched son's birth   Matt Leingang, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle A jury has awarded $8.5 million to a woman who claimed Rochester General Hospital caused irreparable damage to her baby by botching the delivery. "All the warning signs were there that this wasn't going to be a healthy delivery," said the plaintiff’s attorney, Allan Zelikovic, with the firm of Weitz & Luxenberg in New York City.   SERZONE USER SUES DRUG MAKER The Record (Bergen County, NJ) Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., the world's fifth-largest drug maker by sales, was sued by an Ohio woman who claims the company's anti-depressant drug Serzone can cause fatal liver damage and other injuries.   'Worldwide' Class Action Seeks Damages, Withdrawal of Serzone Drug Recall Litigation Reporter A federal class action lawsuit filed in Illinois seeks to establish a worldwide class of millions of people who have taken the anti-depressant Serzone since it went on the market in 1994. The drug has allegedly caused 23 cases of liver failure and 109 cases of liver damage. Sixteen of those users who developed liver failure either died or had to have a liver transplant, the plaintiffs claim. Galyean v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Inc., No. 02C 2748, complaint filed (N.D. Ill., Apr. 16, 2002).   Nationwide Class Action Against Makers of Serzone   Business Wire On April 16, 2002, Kenneth B. Moll & Associates, Ltd., filed a nationwide class action lawsuit, in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, against Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Inc., the manufacturer of Serzone (nefazodone hydrochloride).   News in Brief   Perry Weitz has been selected as one of the "45 Under 45" by The American Lawyer magazine. This honor celebrates 45 attorneys under the age of 45 who are the rising stars of the private bar. -State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has joined Weitz & Luxenberg as of counsel. He was formerly of counsel at Schneider, Kleinick, Weitz, Damashek & Shoot, a personal injury firm. Partner Arthur Luxenberg said Mr. Silver will work on general negligence at the firm's Manhattan office when the Assembly is not in session. -Robert Gordon Appointed to State Court Advisory Committee in Baycol Multi-District Litigation by Federal Judge Davis   New York Jury Awards Meso Victim $53 Million   Mealey's Litigation Report In one of the largest compensatory verdicts in favor of a single plaintiff in the history of asbestos litigation, a New York jury on Feb. 8 awarded a mesothelioma victim and his family $53 million for his asbestos exposure as a brake mechanic. Representing the Browns are Jerry Kristal, Michael P. Roberts and Richard Meadow of Weitz & Luxenberg in New York.   Denise Dunleavy Chosen as One of Nation's Top 50 Women Litigators Margaret Cronin Fisk, National Law Journal Fifty litigators who succeed in and out of the courthouse. This list represents not only the best litigators nationally, but the best litigators period.   Four Asbestos Plaintiffs Are Awarded $64.65 Million National Law Journal The prognosis for the four plaintiffs in this asbestos personal injury case is grim, according to their attorney, Robert J. Gordon. Each is expected to die soon from an incurable form of cancer.   $44 Million Awarded To Families Of Five Killed By Asbestos National Law Journal George Adinolfi was a sheet metal worker at various construction sites in New York from 1958 to 1965. In 1991, he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lungs whose only known cause is exposure to asbestos. Mr. Adinolfi died the next year. He was 52 years old.   Brooklyn Navy Yard Asbestos Verdict Tom Troy, National Law Journal THE SUFFERING of an electrician who died of asbestos-related cancer after years of employment in New York's power plants has prompted a jury to award his family $ 9.8 million.   Weitz & Luxenberg Wins Asbestos Powerhouse Verdict National Law Journal THROUGHOUT THE year there was a series of enormous plaintiffs' verdicts coming out of New York in asbestos personal injury cases. In the Brooklyn Navy Yard cases, federal juries in Manhattan awarded $ 30.7 million to 60 plaintiffs in January and $ 7.6 million to 15 plaintiffs in April. And a New York state jury awarded $ 75 million to 36 plaintiffs in March.   Dying worker's awarded 47M from LILCO, Con Ed Helen Peterson, New York Daily News A former boilermaker with just months to live was awarded $47 million yesterday by a jury that blamed his lung cancer on years of working with asbestos.   Exposure case produces $ 53.5 million award National Law Journal ON FEB. 8, 2002, a New York jury awarded $ 53.5 million in the case of a man who died from a cancer linked to asbestos exposure. Damages Totalling $104 Million Awarded in Consolidated Asbestos Cases   National Law Journal Copyright 2008 Robbins and Reynolds P.A.