About Liza Milgrim
Liza A. Milgrim is a member of the firm who joined Sullivan Papain in 2005 and became a member in 2014. She handles some of the firm's most challenging premises liability, construction site, and motor vehicle cases and has won several multi-million-dollar settlements. She is fluent in Spanish and is active in the Long Island Hispanic Bar Association, where she currently serves as President, as well as the Dominican Bar Association and Puerto Rican Bar Association.
She has been featured in City and State's Power 100 list (2020 and 2021) and received multiple civic proclamations for her community work. She earned her J.D. from St. John's University School of Law (2002) and her B.A. from Brandeis University. She is based in the Garden City office.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Sullivan Papain Block McManus Coffinas & Cannavo
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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.
Paul Napoli served as court-appointed co-liaison counsel for nearly 10,000 firefighters, police officers, and construction workers who developed respiratory diseases after working at Ground Zero, securing a settlement worth up to $712.5 million against the city and its contractors.
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.
William Berroyer Sr. tripped on an unsecured 15-foot telephone cord under a conference table at the IRS office in Hauppauge, New York, in July 2008 and suffered a spinal cord injury. After a four-day bench trial under the Federal Tort Claims Act, Judge Arthur D. Spatt found the United States negligent and entered a $712,000 judgment for Mr. Berroyer in January 2014. His wife, Ruth, received a separate $150,000 award for loss of services.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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