Daniel Wasserberg

Founding Partner at Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP
New York, NY22 years experienceAdmitted 2004

About Daniel Wasserberg

Daniel Wasserberg is a Founding Partner of Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP. With more than two decades of experience, he is motivated to assist victims of injustice by fighting corporate entities that prioritize profit over public health. His practice focuses on consumer protection, environmental advocacy, and corporate accountability through high-stakes plaintiffs' litigation.

Daniel has built a national practice handling personal injury, asbestos, mesothelioma, and toxic tort matters. He has been recognized annually as a New York Metropolitan Super Lawyer from 2013 to the present, was previously a Super Lawyers Rising Star (2013-2018), was named to the Top 100 Civil Litigators by the National Trial Lawyers in 2017, and has been listed among the Top 10 Asbestos and Mesothelioma Lawyers by the National Trial Lawyers.

Daniel earned his Juris Doctor from Indiana University School of Law in 2003 and his Bachelor's degree with a business certificate from Indiana University. He is admitted to practice in Texas (2004), New York (2010), New Jersey (2018), and Illinois (2020), as well as before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Northern District of Illinois. He is a Leader's Forum member of the American Association for Justice and a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and the New York Trial Lawyers Association.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP

These results are credited to Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

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.

South Carolina Court of Common Pleas, 5th Judicial Circuit, Richland County (No. 2020-CP-40-02597) · 2021Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$23.6 millionVerdictTop 20 in Massachusetts · #14

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.

Massachusetts Superior Court, Boston · 2024Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Indiana University Maurer School of Law
JD, 2003
Indiana University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of TX, admitted 2004
State Bar of NY, admitted 2010
State Bar of NJ, admitted 2018
State Bar of IL, admitted 2020
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Awards & recognition

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