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About Dennis Lansdowne
Dennis R. Lansdowne has been with Spangenberg Shibley & Liber since 1985, becoming a partner in 1990. He focuses on catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases, with particular depth in medical malpractice, and he has represented hundreds of people harmed by hospital, physician, nursing home, and other healthcare negligence. Dennis is known for his ability to explain complex medicine to juries, a skill he developed in part by teaching a medical negligence course at his alma mater, Cleveland Marshall College of Law. He also handles insurance coverage disputes on behalf of insureds ranging from individuals to large corporations.
Before joining Spangenberg, he clerked for Judge Robert B. Krupansky of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and was an associate at Jones Day. He graduated summa cum laude from Cleveland Marshall College of Law in 1981 and earned his B.A. from Cleveland State University in 1977. He is a past president of the Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys and a Master at the William K. Thomas Inn of Court.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Spangenberg Shibley & Liber
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A federal jury found CVS, Walgreens, and Walmart liable for creating an opioid public nuisance in northeast Ohio, leading to a $650 million abatement judgment, the first of its kind against pharmacy chains in U.S. history.
Hours before opening arguments in the first federal opioid bellwether trial, Cuyahoga and Summit counties in Ohio secured a $260 million settlement from distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson, plus manufacturer Teva.
A Hamilton County jury returned a verdict of nearly $28 million against Utilimap Corp. after the firm's inspectors skipped a rotted utility pole that collapsed and killed Duke Energy lineman Keith Jester in 2014.
A window washer for Euclid Cleaning Contractors fell thirty feet to his death while cleaning windows at a Cleveland-area high school when a cotton safety strap made in 1962 broke. His widow sued the employer for an intentional tort, and a Cuyahoga County jury returned a $550,000 verdict in 1994. The Eighth District affirmed in 1995.
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