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About Carla Pinto
Carla A. Pinto is an associate attorney with Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP and a member of the firm's personal injury team. The daughter of Portuguese immigrants, she handles a broad range of injury matters including motor vehicle accidents, slip-and-fall cases, construction accidents, bicycle accidents, wrongful death claims, and related estates and guardianship proceedings.
Before joining Meirowitz & Wasserberg, Ms. Pinto practiced as an associate at a prominent personal injury law firm in Nassau County, where she focused on estates, death compromises, and guardianship matters in connection with personal injury and wrongful death recoveries.
Ms. Pinto earned her Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies from St. John's University and her Juris Doctor from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in 2015. She attended law school at night while working full-time as a paralegal. Fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, Ms. Pinto serves as the first Secretary of the New York Portuguese American Leadership Conference and is a member of the Queens County Women's Bar Association and the Nassau County Bar Association Women in the Law Committee.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP
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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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