The Complete Guide to Mesothelioma & Your Legal Rights

Our Complete Guide To Mesothelioma is An Informational Resource To Diagnosis, Treatment Options and Legal Rights After A Mesothelioma Diagnosis John Lipsitz and Michael Ponterio’s shared commitment to seeking justice for victims of the asbestos industry led them to form Lipsitz, Ponterio & Comerford, LLC in 1995. John Comerford joined the firm the same year […]

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Jillian M. Ponterio Joins Lipsitz, Ponterio & Comerford

Lipsitz, Ponterio & Comerford, LLC, is pleased to announce that Jillian M. Ponterio has joined the firm as an associate attorney. Ms. Ponterio will focus her practice on the representation of individuals suffering from occupational diseases, including mesothelioma and lung cancer.
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Lipsitz & Ponterio Publishes its Fall 2017 Newsletter

Topics include: Lipsitz & Ponterio Client Awarded $1.2 Million in Medical Malpractice Case; Summer Job Led to Mesothelioma - Lipsitz & Ponterio Settles Case for  $3.1 Million; Workers' Comp Benefits: Widow Whose Husband Was Exposed to Deadly Chemicals; Lipsitz & Ponterio Moves to the Liberty Building and more......
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Appeals Court Upholds $3 Million Verdict in Asbestos Case

The court, in a decision anxiously awaited by industry and business groups across the country, ruled against Crane Co., the Connecticut manufacturer found partially responsible for Suttner’s death. Suttner, who retired from GM in 1996 after more than 30 years of employment, was diagnosed with mesothelioma two years before his death.

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Buffalo Law Firm Wins Major Appeal in Asbestos Case in New York’s Highest Court

New York’s highest court upheld a wrongful death verdict on behalf of a Buffalo-area widow who lost her husband to mesothelioma. In a landmark, forty-eight page majority opinion, Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam reaffirmed that New York’s longstanding rule that a manufacturer who sells products in New York assumes a serious responsibility to warn end-users about non-obvious dangers of intended uses of its products.

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Buffalo targets lead paint problem with new program

Buffalo is promising a more aggressive and coordinated approach to the city’s lead paint problem, putting a greater onus on landlords to ensure that houses are safe while also promising more lead testing, screening and remediation by government agencies

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Lipsitz & Ponterio Publishes its Spring 2016 Newsletter

Topics include: Experienced Trial Team Handles Automobile Accident Cases; Judge Awards $5.6 Million to Former Durez Employee; Asbestos Deaths are Higher than State and National Averages in WNY; Local Judge Recognizes Depth of Mesothelioma Victim's Pain and Suffering; Lipsitz & Ponterio Represents Individuals Injured by Home Waxing Kits; and more...

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For families, justice elusive over deadliness of asbestos

And then, in 2014, at the age of 56, his career as a project manager flourishing, Joseph L. Muir learned that he had mesothelioma. He died a year later but lived long enough to see a jury in Buffalo attribute his illness to asbestos exposure and his two summers 40 years ago working at Durez.

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Another Voice: Negligence by landlords requires a legal remedy

It’s no surprise that young children in Western New York suffer from the highest rate of lead poisoning in upstate New York. Eighty-seven percent of the homes in Erie County were built before 1978, the year the federal government banned toxic lead-based paint from use in residential structures.

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WNY Metro Group Papers: Giving the Sick A Second Chance At Life

With a grandfather and father who graduated from Buffalo Law School and went on to be lawyers, John Lipsitz had no intention of following in their footsteps. Though he lacked interest in law growing up, he attended UB Law School. After graduating, he received a job representing inmates at prisons across New York State for […]

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Erie County Jury Awards Three Million Dollars to Former Ashland Oil Employee

An Erie County jury delivered a verdict in favor of the family of Lee Bernard Holdsworth in the amount of $ 3 million dollars. Mr. Holdsworth was diagnosed with mesothelioma in February 2012 and died on January 17, 2013, in the care of Hospice of Buffalo. He is survived by his wife of over fifty years, three children and ten grandchildren.

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Buffalo Challenger: Cancer Risks from Coke Oven Emissions & Coal Tar Pitch

The production and refining of coal tar and its use in various other products involves a substantial risk of exposure to a group of chemicals known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Exposure to these substances can lead to a variety of diseases, including lung and other respiratory cancers, bladder cancer and skin cancer.

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Buffalo Jury Awards $ 2.5 Million Dollars to Chemist in Mesothelioma Case

A former laboratory chemist suffering from mesothelioma was awarded a $2.5 million dollar verdict by an Erie County jury. In his products liability trial against Ford Motor Company, plaintiff James Ginter presented evidence showing that when he used the FAST (Friction Assessment Screening Test) Machine manufactured by Ford Motor Company he was exposed to respirable asbestos. Exposure to asbestos ultimately caused Mr. Ginter's mesothelioma.

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Syracuse Jury Awards $1 Million Dollars to Tugboat Engineer

The law firm of Lipsitz & Ponterio, LLC is pleased to announce that after a two week trial presided over by State Supreme Court Justice James W. McCarthy, a Syracuse, New York jury delivered a verdict in favor of the Estate of Richard Schuderer in the amount of $1 million dollars.

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Public Justice News Story – Proposed Settlement with CBS & Toy Retailers to Give Refunds for ‘CSI’ Toy Fingerprint Kits That May Contain Asbestos

Public Justice and the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization announced on July 1 that a proposed settlement of a nationwide class action against CBS Broadcasting, Inc. and major toy retailers, if approved, will give cash refunds to consumers and effectively implement a nationwide recall of toy science kits, based on the popular “CSI” television drama series, that may contain asbestos.

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