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About Brian Russell
Brian Russell is an associate attorney with Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP, dedicated to representing injured workers in New York. With more than 18 years of legal experience, Mr. Russell appears regularly before the New York State Workers' Compensation Board and the Appellate courts, having handled thousands of cases on behalf of workers seeking benefits for on-the-job injuries.
Mr. Russell earned his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University in 2000 and his Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School in 2004. His practice focuses on New York workers' compensation law, including total disability claims, Social Security disability benefits, and related appellate proceedings.
Mr. Russell is a member of the Injured Workers Bar Association and regularly attends continuing legal education programs on workers' compensation strategy and practice, including National Business Institute seminars on litigating workers' compensation cases and New York workers' compensation fundamentals.
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A Richland County jury unanimously awarded $32 million, including $10 million in punitive damages against Kraft Heinz, after finding that secondhand asbestos fibers carried home on work clothes caused Kathy Weist's fatal mesothelioma diagnosis.
A Boston jury found on Sept. 13, 2024 that Cimbar Performance Minerals misrepresented the safety of its Elite Talc 2000 and that its negligence helped cause a Utah man's mesothelioma, which was diagnosed seven years after he received talc during a 2014 pleurodesis. It is the first known verdict on that theory. The jury awarded about $39.1 million, and the trial judge later cut the future pain and suffering item from $21.5 million to $6 million. About $23.6 million stood.
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