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About Lawrence R. Cohan
Lawrence Cohan is a partner at Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky and chairs the firm’s Mass Tort and Toxic Tort Departments. Larry's practice involves toxic and mass torts including asbestos, PFAS, paraquat, talc, benzene, lead Camp Lejeune, chemicals and other dangerous products, medical malpractice, pharmaceutical and medical device liability, including defective hip implants, vaccine-related injuries, products liability, class action, FELA, and other complex personal injury matters. As a leader in many complex cases, Larry has forged new law in the trial and appellate court levels in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. Larry was Plaintiffs’ Lead Counsel for the multidistrict litigation (MDL) on the infamous “human tissue” scandal case. He served on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for the Morcellator MDL in Kansas City, Kansas.
Larry is currently serving on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee of the MDL entitled IN RE: Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Products Liability Litigation. Larry is the co-chair of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committees’ Public Water Provider Sub Committee and has prepared two of the first ten cases selected for Bellwether trial. Larry has served for decades on boards of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Associations. He completed his term as president of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, the oldest and largest local trial lawyer association in the country.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky
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The families of 98 people killed in the June 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida, recovered over $1 billion through a class settlement run by a court-appointed Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, with final approval reached in under a year.
After Amtrak Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia in May 2015, killing eight and injuring more than 200, Kline & Specter's Thomas R. Kline led the plaintiffs' negotiations that produced a $265 million settlement fund for the victims.
A Pennsylvania-record $227 million settlement resolved claims brought by 19 victims of the June 2013 Center City building collapse, in which an improperly braced wall fell during demolition and crushed the adjoining Salvation Army thrift store, killing seven people.
A Montgomery County jury awarded the estate of Ellen Gregory Robb $124.26 million in November 2014 against her husband, a former Penn economics professor who killed her in 2006 and pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Of the total, $100 million was punitive damages. The proceeds were for the couple's daughter, the estate's beneficiary. The award stood after Robb's post-trial challenge, though collection was limited to his retirement and investment assets.
Four construction workers were killed and more than 30 injured when five floors of a parking garage under construction at the Tropicana Casino Resort in Atlantic City collapsed in October 2003, leading to what attorneys described as the largest construction-accident settlement in U.S. history at that time.
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