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About Sullivan Papain Block McManus Coffinas & Cannavo

Sullivan Papain Block McManus Coffinas & Cannavo P.C. is one of New York's largest plaintiffs' personal injury firms, founded in 1926, with departments covering automobile accidents, construction site injuries, medical malpractice, product liability, municipal liability, mass torts, and aviation and maritime claims. The firm has recovered over $2 billion for clients in the last ten years and serves as General Counsel to the Uniformed Firefighters Association of New York, having secured more than $615 million for 9/11 rescue and recovery workers on a pro bono basis.

Proven verdicts and settlements won by Sullivan Papain Block McManus Coffinas & Cannavo

$25 billionSettlement

Sullivan Papain was among the firms representing New York State against Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, Brown & Williamson, and Lorillard, securing a $25 billion recovery through the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.

New York State (Master Settlement Agreement) · 1998Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$712 millionSettlement

Sullivan Papain served as court-appointed co-liaison counsel in the World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation, helping secure a settlement of more than $712 million for roughly 10,000 police officers, firefighters, and construction workers who developed serious respiratory and other illnesses after working in the toxic ruins of the World Trade Center.

U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · 2010Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$29.5 million (settled September 2016 rather than risk appellate reduction; $183 million gross verdict)Verdict

A Bronx jury in February 2016 awarded $183 million to five FDNY firefighters and the families of those killed after the city was found 80% liable for removing personal safety ropes years before a 2005 Bronx tenement fire that forced six firefighters to jump from a fourth-floor window.

Bronx Supreme Court, New York · 2016Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Proven verdicts and settlements from other New York firms

Levy Konigsberg LLP
Levy Konigsberg LLP
$325 million verdict ($25 million compensatory plus $300 million punitive; reduced to $120 million by the trial court in November 2020; reversed and judgment entered for Johnson & Johnson in July 2022) · $325 Million Talc Mesothelioma Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson, Cut to $120 Million and Then Reversed on Causation
Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf
Gair, Gair, Conason, Rubinowitz, Bloom, Hershenhorn, Steigman & Mackauf
$272.5 million · $272.5 Million for the Victims of the Tribeca Crane Collapse
Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore
Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore
$172 million · $172 Million Bronx Verdict After EMTs Arrived Without Oxygen or Defibrillator and Told Family to Wait
Weitz & Luxenberg
Weitz & Luxenberg
$10.9 billion · Weitz and Luxenberg Helps Win $10.9 Billion Roundup Settlement for 125,000 Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Claimants
The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.
The Perecman Firm, P.L.L.C.
$9.9 million · Union Laborer's Ten-Foot Fall From a Rolling Scaffold Settles for $9.9 Million

Attorneys at Sullivan Papain Block McManus Coffinas & Cannavo

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