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About D. Patrick Huyett
Pat Huyett is a partner at Anapol Weiss whose practice is devoted to representing plaintiffs in class action, mass tort, and whistleblower cases. Pat became a plaintiffs' lawyer after working at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, where he defended large corporate defendants in high-stakes litigation and gained a deep understanding of the strategies that companies deploy in defending these cases. His current cases include actions against online platforms Roblox and Discord, with a complaint filed in February 2025 on behalf of a 13-year-old boy exploited through these platforms and a subsequent complaint filed in April 2025 on behalf of a minor in Florida. Pat's desire to represent plaintiffs stems from his time serving as an enforcement attorney at the Federal Trade Commission, the agency charged with protecting the nation's consumers and promoting competition.
While at the FTC, Pat worked extensively on the agency's case against Martin Shkreli and his companies, which alleged that the defendants drastically raised the price of a life-saving drug and prevented lower-priced generic drugs from entering the market through a multifaceted anticompetitive scheme. The district court in the Southern District of New York ultimately banned Shkreli for life from the pharmaceutical industry and found him liable for $64.6 million. In litigating cases for plaintiffs, Pat also draws on his experience serving as a law clerk for two federal judges at the start of his career: the Honorable William H.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Anapol Weiss
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Anapol Weiss shareholder Kristen Gibbons Feden helped secure $1.6 billion in default verdicts for 104 women sexually abused as children by former Long Island pediatrician Stuart Copperman, one of the largest cumulative civil awards against a single individual in U.S. history.
On Nov. 3, 2014, Howmedica Osteonics, doing business as Stryker Orthopaedics, settled the claims of about 3,000 people who had surgery to remove recalled Rejuvenate and ABG II modular hip stems. The deal was announced in the Bergen County courthouse and paired with a parallel proceeding in the federal MDL in Minnesota. It sets a base award per failed implant plus enhancements for complications, with no fixed fund, and was expected to pay out more than $1 billion. Thomas Anapol of Anapol Schwartz sat on the court-appointed Plaintiff Steering Committee for the New Jersey litigation.
Sol Weiss and Larry Coben of Anapol Weiss served as co-lead class counsel in the landmark NFL concussion multidistrict litigation, securing a settlement valued at nearly $1 billion for thousands of retired players diagnosed with serious neurological conditions.
In early 2014, Biomet agreed to pay at least $56 million to settle about 1,000 federal lawsuits over its M2a 38 and M2a Magnum metal-on-metal hip implants, consolidated in the Northern District of Indiana. Qualifying patients who had the device revised received a base award of $200,000, adjusted by individual factors. Thomas Anapol was court-appointed Co-Lead Counsel with W. Mark Lanier and signed the agreement for the Plaintiffs' Executive Committee. The figure covers many unrelated plaintiffs, is a reported minimum rather than a final total, and is not itemized by person.
A 19-year-old woman from Oklahoma said her Uber driver raped her during a late-night ride in Arizona in November 2023. On February 5, 2026, a nine-person federal jury in Phoenix found Uber liable under an apparent-agency theory and awarded $8.5 million in compensatory damages. It was the first trial among more than 3,000 consolidated rideshare assault cases. The jury declined punitive damages and rejected the negligence and defective-design claims.
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