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About Peter Weprin
Peter Weprin serves as Of Counsel to Meirowitz & Wasserberg, based in the firm's New York City office. He is part of the toxic tort team focusing on mesothelioma, lung cancer, and other asbestos exposure cases.
Peter began his legal career at age 16 as an intern at his uncle's personal injury law firm. After earning his Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School in 1999, he was admitted to the New York Bar in 2001. Before returning to plaintiffs' work, Peter served as Senior Counsel at a Fortune 500 company and as a Managing Director specializing in biotech cancer drug financing, giving him a unique perspective on both corporate and medical aspects of his current practice.
Peter is admitted to practice in New York and Pennsylvania, and before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at the City University of New York (Queens) and at the Interboro Institute.
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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