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About Darron E. Berquist
Darron E. Berquist is the managing attorney for the firm’s asbestos practice serving clients nationwide and a dedicated New York City mesothelioma lawyer . In addition to representing individuals with asbestos-caused diseases such as mesothelioma, lung cancer, and ovarian cancer , he assists the firm’s pharmaceutical and product liability groups, particularly on matters related to expert witnesses. Darron manages the litigation side of the firm’s asbestos practice, overseeing every matter that is actively litigated and positioned to be tried, across dockets in the Northeast, California , Louisiana , Florida , and other jurisdictions nationwide. His responsibilities include case ' and deadline oversight, retention and coordination of the firm’s expert witnesses, and the mentorship and training of the practice’s younger attorneys and paraprofessional staff.
He has continued to work up and try his own cases throughout and remains the primary lawyer on an active docket of his own. A defining feature of the firm’s mesothelioma litigation practice , and of Darron’s own approach, is continuity of counsel. Rather than working a case up and handing it to a separate trial team and then to an appellate team, the same lawyers stay with a client from the first meeting through discovery, motion practice, trial, and appeal. Darron considers that continuity both a tactical advantage, because t
Proven verdicts and settlements at The Lanier Law Firm
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A St. Louis jury in July 2018 awarded 22 women and their families $4.69 billion, the largest U.S. verdict of that year, finding that asbestos in Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder products caused ovarian cancer; a Missouri appellate court upheld $2.11 billion in 2020.
After a six-week federal trial, a jury found three of the nation's largest retail pharmacy chains created a public nuisance by flooding Lake and Trumbull Counties, Ohio with opioid pills, and a judge ordered $650 million to fund a 15-year abatement plan.
A Dallas federal jury awarded $1.04 billion to six California patients harmed by Johnson and Johnson's metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implants, with W. Mark Lanier leading an eight-week trial that produced one of the largest product-liability verdicts of 2016.
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 Dallas federal jury awarded six New York patients $247 million against Johnson and Johnson and its DePuy unit, finding that the metal-on-metal Pinnacle hip implant system was defectively designed and that the company concealed known risks from patients and surgeons.
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