February 1, 2012 - Last year was marked by success for Levy Phillips & Konigsberg LLP, as a number of the firm’s esteemed members, as well as the firm itself, have garnered acclaim from top legal publications for their excellence in public service, further establishing LPK as one of the nation’s premier law firms.

January 30, 2012 - Stop Mesothelioma names Erica Iacono and Janice Malkotsis Advocates of the Month for January 2012 for organizing the annual 5K Walk/Run for Hope, an event that raises money for the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation (MARF).

January 31, 2012 - Attention Ohio Residents! State Sen. Jim Hughes and State Rep. Ross McGregor are sponsoring a False Claims Act for Ohio that would permit whistleblowers with evidence that the State of Ohio has been defrauded, to recover a portions of the money (15-30%) recovered by the State.

Cayuga Medical Center Settles Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Allegations for $3.5 Million

January 26, 2012 - A whistleblower government fraud case brought by both the Federal Government under the Federal False Claims Act and the State of New York against Cayuga Medical Center of Ithaca, New York was recently settled by a payment by the hospital of over $3.5M.

January 4, 2012 - Stop Mesothelioma, a Facebook page created and sponsored by Levy Phillips & Konigsberg LLP ("LPK"), has raised another $10,000 for mesothelioma research and efforts to ban asbestos. This brings the current total to over $50,000 based on LPK’s pledge to donate $1 for every "Like" the page receives up to $100,000. LPK has donated the most recent $10,000 to the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization ("ADAO"), a leading non-profit organization dedicated to giving a voice to victims of asbestos-related diseases.

December 13, 2011 - Missy Dorsey Bowles is taking a stand. Driven by faith and the memory of her father, she has become one of the most passionate advocates of mesothelioma research and awareness in her home state of West Virginia, having raised close to $30,000 in the last two years for the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation. For her inspiring display of determination and altruism, she is the Stop Mesothelioma Advocate of the Month for December 2011.

November 16, 2011 - Three New York nursing homes agree to repay more than $745,000 to New York State for alleged bed-billing fraud schemes. Whistleblower represented by the qui tam law firm Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, receives a $111,000-plus reward for reporting the nursing homes’ false billing.

November 15, 2011 - For his dedication to the mesothelioma community, Larry Davis has been named Stop Mesothelioma's first "Advocate of the Month." Stop Mesothelioma is a Facebook project created and sponsored by Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP ("LPK Law"), which pledges to donate $1 to mesothelioma research and efforts to ban asbestos for every "Like" the page receives up to $100,000.

November 14, 2011 - In just one week, a new Facebook page called Stop Mesothelioma has raised $40,000 in an unprecedented social media campaign. Levy Phillips & Konigsberg LLP ("LPK"), the creator and sponsor of the page, has pledged to donate $1 to mesothelioma research and efforts to ban asbestos for every "Like" the page receives up to $100,000.

November 9, 2011 - Members of the mesothelioma community showed the enormous power of social media by raising more than $10,000 in 24 hours on a new Facebook page called Stop Mesothelioma. Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP ("LPK"), the sponsor of the page, has pledged to donate $1 to mesothelioma research and efforts to ban asbestos for every "Like" the page receives up to $100,000.

November 1, 2011 - Whistleblower attorneys at Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, help uncover pervasive 10-year fraud on American taxpayers, perpetrated by the City of New York, winning a $14.7 Million reward for the firm's qui tam client, a physician who helped U.S. taxpayers recover $70 Million by sparking federal investigation into City’s alleged Medicaid fraud scheme.

September 26, 2011 - LPK's mesothelioma lawyers and staff members joined volunteers from the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation at the second annual rally held outside of NBC's Today Show studios to commemorate National Mesothelioma Awareness Day to spread the word about asbestos and mesothelioma.

September 1, 2011 - In a qui tam lawsuit, filed by whistleblower attorneys from Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, alleging multimillion-dollar Medicaid fraud on the part of the City of New York, Federal Judge affirmed all claims and rejected the defendant NYC's attempts to dismiss them on technical grounds.

July 25, 2011 - Birth defects lawsuit brought by Dominican families in Delaware Superior Court against a US-based power company, for allegedly dumping toxic coal ash waste onto a beach in the Dominican Republic, is set to proceed to trial after the defendants' motion to dismiss the case was denied.

July 11, 2011 - Lead poisoning lawyer Daniel J. Woodard from Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, obtained a $4.8 Million damages award in a lead paint poisoning case on behalf of a twelve year old girl who was brain damaged as a result of exposure to lead-based paint from peeling and chipping paint in her Brooklyn apartment.

May 31, 2011 - New York medical malpractice lawyers from Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, obtain a $3 Million settlement on behalf of a 57-year-old woman whose breast cancer was misdiagnosed allowing the cancer to spread to her bones and brain and nearly taking away her life.

May 27, 2011 – A nationwide class action has been filed on behalf of potentially thousands of ERISA retirement plan participants who may have been overcharged fees in connection with the division of their retirement benefits during their divorce.

April 7, 2011 - Mesothelioma attorneys from Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, speak at the 4th Annual Emerging Trends in Asbestos Litigation Conference in Chicago, Illinois, which gathered over two hundred lawyers representing mesothelioma victims, asbestos companies, and insurers from across the nation.

March 23, 2011 - Hundreds of people are expected to gather for the 3rd annual Norm Kulig 2Young2Go Foundation Get the Lead Out Race, which is to take place on April 2, 2011, at the Wissahickon High School in Ambler, Pennsylvania. The event raises money for the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation, a non-profit organization that funds research for treatment and cure for mesothelioma, and the University of Pennsylvania Lung Center, a medical research facility working on finding a cure for mesothelioma.

March 23, 2011 - New York Supreme Court Justice upholds recommendation of the Asbestos Litigation Special Master directing the immediate production of records in the possession of a pump manufacturer in mesothelioma lawsuit brought by a retired New York City Housing Authority police officer.

March 11, 2011 - A nationwide shareholder derivative suit has been filed by the class action attorneys from Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, on behalf of five shareholders suing The Hartford Group mutual funds over excessive shareholder-service fees.

March 8, 2011 - Federal Judge in the United States District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, rules that future damages in actions under Section 36(b) of the Investment Company Act are recoverable.

February 28, 2011 - Hundreds of people are expected to gather for the 6th Annual 5K Walk/Run for Hope, which is to take place on April 10, 2011, in Eisenhower Park in East Meadow, Long Island. The event is to raise money for the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation, a non-profit organization that funds research for treatment and cure for mesothelioma. Mesothelioma lawyers of Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, are proud supporters of the event, one of several sponsored by the firm this year.

February 10, 2011 - New Jersey Superior Court Judge orders a paint manufacturer, which was named in a mesothelioma lawsuit as a discovery-only defendant, to produce documents shedding light to the cancer-causing asbestos exposure by a former employee of the company.

January 27, 2011 - Lead poisoning attorney from the New York and New Jersey-based personal injury law firm of Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, obtains a settlement of $1 Million on behalf of a nine-year-old boy poisoned by lead paint at the age of two. The settlement is believed to be the largest settlement for a single lead poisoned child in the State of New Jersey.

January 20, 2011 - Lead poisoning lawyer from the New York-based personal injury law firm of Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, obtains a settlement of $3 Million on behalf of a mother and her thirteen-year-old son poisoned by lead paint when he was three. The settlement is believed to be the largest settlement for a single lead poisoned child in New York State.

January 14, 2011 - Medicaid fraud attorneys at Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, announce that the US Government has partially intervened in a qui tam lawsuit brought by the law firm against the City of New York, alleging false claims related to 24-hour Home Care Services.

January 13, 2011 - Federal Judge from New York’s Southern District Court rules in favor of a former Navy boilerman who developed mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos contained in ship equipment supplied by a government contractor. The ruling denied a defendant’s attempt to seek legal immunity under the government contractor defense, and thus preserving the rights of Navy servicemen, who have developed asbestos-related diseases from their military service, to bring lawsuits against product manufacturers.

December 13, 2010 - Delaware Superior Court Judge upholds family’s choice of forum in a toxic tort lawsuit arising from a father’s wrongful occupational exposure to reproductively toxic chemicals which resulted in his child's severe birth defects.

December 7, 2010 - New Jersey Judge denies a motion brought by a tile manufacturer, named as a defendant in a take-home asbestos exposure lawsuit, seeking to have New York State law applied to the issue of allocation of damages among companies responsible for the plaintiff’s mesothelioma cancer.

December 6, 2010 - Federal Judge of the US District Court of the Southern District of New York dismisses a motion for summary judgment filed by a valve manufacturer Crane Co., one of the defendants named in a mesothelioma lawsuit brought by LPK client Michael Curry, who has developed mesothelioma as a result of asbestos exposure during his service onboard the USS Kitty Hawk.

August 20, 2010 - The New Jersey Appellate Division has affirmed Bonnie Anderson's $7.5 million verdict against Exxon Mobil. Bonnie Anderson, who suffers from peritoneal mesothelioma, was exposed to asbestos from laundering the asbestos-contaminated clothing of her husband who worked at the Exxon Bayway Refinery in New Jersey. This is a landmark decision that will serve to protect the rights of anyone who develops an asbestos-related disease caused by take-home asbestos exposure.

July 30, 2010 - New York personal injury lawyer from LPK obtains a $4.25 Million settlement for a motorcyclist who was hit by a truck and, as a result, sustained severe personal injuries, including permanent neurological injuries with confinement to wheelchair or walker.

June 25, 2010 - In a federal class action brought by two long-time Marlboro smokers residing in Massachusetts on behalf of a class of an estimated 60,000 similarly situated Massachusetts residents, the Honorable Nancy Gertner has granted class certification, clearing the way for a landmark trial against Philip Morris. The case is unique in that the plaintiffs are not seeking money damages and they do not have symptoms of lung cancer. Instead, they are seeking a medical monitoring program which would allow lung cancer to be detected while it is more curable.

April 5, 2010 - New Jersey Appellate Division upholds the state’s largest $30.3 Million mesothelioma compensation verdict in a lawsuit brought by LPK’s client Susan M. Buttitta both individually and on behalf of the estate of her late husband Mark Buttitta, who died of mesothelioma, a rare and terminal cancer caused by asbestos exposure. The verdict is the largest mesothelioma compensation award ever obtained in New Jersey’s long history of asbestos litigation.

December 21, 2009 - A class action has been filed by dividend policyholders against The Phoenix Life Insurance Co and The Phoenix Cos claiming breaches of the companies’ statutory and contractual duties when the dividends were reduced in order to enrich the stockholders of the insurers' parent company.

December 9, 2009 - After eleven days of trial, a medical malpractice lawyer from Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP, obtains a $4 Million settlement for a client who was seriously injured after the defendant, a New York hospital, failed to treat his ischemic stroke in a timely fashion.

August 24, 2009 – In a medical malpractice lawsuit brought against a major NYC-based cancer center, New York Supreme Court Justice orders the disclosure of documents, which, the hospital's doctors argued, were privileged and immune from disclosure.

March 18, 2009 - New Jersey Appellate Division upholds an earlier decision denying Chrysler and Honeywell’s motion to compel an autopsy on the body of LPK’s client Harold St. John, who died of mesothelioma on February 28, 2010, and whose casket was removed from his gravesite four days later. His family will finally be able to bury him after fourteen days of dismay and despair.

December 4, 2008 - New York Supreme Court Justice upholds a $5 Million mesothelioma compensation verdict awarded to a former Navy boilerman. The jury award is believed to be the largest ever mesothelioma compensation verdict in Upstate New York and the first ever mesothelioma compensation verdict in Syracuse, New York.