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On October 24, 2008, LPK Lead-Paint Poisoning Attorney Daniel J. Woodard obtained a verdict totaling $2,435,000.

In a Decision and Order dated December 4, 2008, New York Supreme Court Justice James W. McCarthy upheld a five million mesothelioma verdict awarded to an Ithaca, New York resident who served as a Navy boilerman in the early 1960s aboard the U.

JURY VERDICT SUMMARIES
Plaintiff: Douglas Pokorney Defendants: Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation Court: Supreme Court, Onondaga County Judge: Hon. James W.

On June 20, 2008, attorneys from the law firm of Levy, Phillips & Konigsberg obtained a verdict in Supreme Court, Bronx County totaling $8,500,000 in a case involving a child who was 15 years old at the time of trial and 7 years old when he was first lead poisoned. For a period of approximately two years, while residing and spending substantial amounts of time in two separate Bronx County apartment buildings, the child was exposed to peeling lead based paint and lead based paint dust.

On May 28, 2008, a Middlesex County jury rendered a verdict of $7˝ million for the pain and suffering and loss of consortium claims resulting from Bonnie Anderson’s asbestos-related peritoneal mesothelioma. Bonnie Anderson was exposed to asbestos as a result of “take home” asbestos fibers unknowingly brought home on the work clothes of her husband John Anderson during the decades that he worked at the Exxon Bayway Refinery in New Jersey.

The plaintiff says the company failed to warn him about the chemical exposure of ink thinners he was exposed to at work, one of the causes for kidney failure. A New York Appeals Court recently ruled that Antonio Lopez has the right to sue the makers of products containing chemicals which he was exposed to and poisoned his kidneys.

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New York, NY – February 18, 2008 – Levy, Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, premier New York malpractice attorneys, represented Annie Rose Noel, a part-time nanny, who suffered kidney injuries while recovering from a myomectomy at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan. The original surgery was a myomectomy, a surgical removal of fibroids from her uterus.

NEW YORK, NY - February 13, 2008 – A New York City jury awarded $2.25 million in the case of 73 year old Leonard Shafer who had exposure to asbestos in his workplace as a civilian employee at the New York Naval Shipyard (Brooklyn Navy Yard) in the 1950's.

"We prepare our cases with the expectation that we are going to try the case and carry through to appeal, if that is what is required," says Alan J. Konigsberg, managing partner.