Moshe Maimon

Moshe Maimon of Levy Konigsberg led the trial team that won a $117 million verdict for Stephen Lanzo III, the first jury finding that Johnson & Johnson talc caused a plaintiff's mesothelioma. The New Jersey Appellate Division reversed the judgment in April 2021 over inadmissible expert testimony, and no retrial or final resolution has been publicly reported since, with J&J's talc bankruptcy filings stalling the litigation for years.

In the first consolidated multi-plaintiff talc trial, a Middlesex County jury awarded $37.3 million on September 11, 2019 to four people who developed mesothelioma after their parents powdered them with Johnson's Baby Powder as children, and a second jury added $750 million in punitive damages in February 2020, which Judge Ana Viscomi cut to $186.5 million under New Jersey's five-times cap. Moshe Maimon of Levy Konigsberg tried the case with Chris Placitella and Chris Panatier. On October 3, 2023 the Appellate Division reversed every judgment and ordered new trials, holding that the trial court had admitted three plaintiffs' experts without the gatekeeping New Jersey law requires.

A Bergen County jury awarded $30,312,204 in February 2008 to the family of Mark Buttitta, who died of mesothelioma at 50 after breathing asbestos fibers his father carried home from GM parts warehouses and after his own college summers working there. Moshe Maimon of Levy Konigsberg tried the case, and the New Jersey Appellate Division affirmed the full award on April 5, 2010.

An Alameda County jury found on March 13, 2019 that asbestos in Johnson's Baby Powder caused Teresa Leavitt's mesothelioma and awarded $29.4 million in compensatory damages, assigning 98 percent of the fault to Johnson & Johnson. Moshe Maimon of Levy Konigsberg tried the case with Joseph Satterley of Kazan McClain Satterley & Greenwood. It was the first talc trial to reach a verdict after the December 2018 press reports that the company had known of asbestos in its talc for decades. The California Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment in full on August 5, 2021.

A Middlesex County jury awarded $1.6 million in November 2013 to Steven Kaenzig, diagnosed with peritoneal mesothelioma at 44 after breathing asbestos-contaminated talc dust that his father brought home from the Shulton plant where Old Spice and Desert Flower powders were made, and to his wife Linda. Moshe Maimon of Levy Konigsberg was among counsel for the family. On March 27, 2015 the Appellate Division affirmed the judgment against the talc supplier Whittaker, Clark & Daniels, the first cosmetic talc mesothelioma verdict in the country to be upheld on appeal.