Case: John Wisekal as personal representative of the estate of Darian Wisekal v. Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings et al. Case no.: 12-80806 Description: Medical negligence Filing Date: July 30, 2012 Plaintiff attorneys: Sean Domnick, Domnick & Shevin, Palm Beach Gardens; and Stephen Rosenthal, Podhurst Orseck, Miami Defense attorney: Carol A. Hogan, Jones Day, Chicago Verdict Amount: $15.8 […]
Lawyer whose firm represented relatives of SilkAir 1997 crash victims says he is suspicious of speculation about MH370 Aviation experts have criticised the way Malaysian authorities have fueled what is likely to be misleading speculation about what caused flight MH370 to go missing. Steve Marks, a lawyer at the US firm Podhurst Orseck, which represented […]
Bart Jansen, USA TODAY 3:49 p.m. EST March 8, 2014 On Dec. 21, 1997, rescue workers aid divers in the water after an attempt to search for remnants of Silkair Boeing 737-300, which killed all 97 passengers and seven crewmembers. An aviation lawyer who worked on cases with problems similar to the Malaysia Airlines disaster […]
BY SIOBHAN MORRISSEY Special to the Miami Herald Capital One asks, “What’s in Your Wallet?” the Podhurst Orseck firm can confidently answer: Your banker’s hand. Capital One is one of nearly two dozen banks sued by the Miami firm for allegedly overcharging millions of customers in overdraft fees. To date, 19 of those banks have […]
PHILADELPHIA — (Mealey’s) In an Aug. 29 order, a Pennsylvania federal judge announced that the National Football League and players have reached a $765 million settlement in the concussion injury multidistrict litigation (In re: National Football League Players’ Concussion Injury Litigation, No. 12-2323, E.D. Pa.; See July 2013, Page 42). U.S. Judge Anita B. Brody […]
MIAMI (CBS4) – At San Francisco International Airport pieces of an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 lay scattered along a runway near the plane’s burned shell. While federal investigators look for answers as to what caused the deadly crash, South Florida aviation attorney Steven Marks is also paying close attention to what they find. “It doesn’t […]
Robert C. Josefsberg, a Miami attorney known for his half century of counsel to governors, judges, and clients ranging from a rock star to the poorest of the poor, has been selected to receive The Florida Bar Foundation’s 2013 Medal of Honor Award for a lawyer, the Foundation’s highest award. The late Chesterfield Smith, in […]
The Ninth Circuit ignores 127 years of precedent allowing U.S. agents to search those trying to enter the country. By: Roy K. Altman April 3, 2013 7:11 p.m. ET On March 8, a federal appeals court stripped U.S. border agents of one of their most effective tools—the power to search, at random and indiscriminately, the […]
U.S. lawyer Steven Marks defended the rights of the families of victims in almost 100 air accidents, including some of the major civil aviation tragedies in the last twenty years. Through the years, having specialized in investigating the causes for those disasters, he has developed a conviction: in order to identify the culprits and obtain […]
U.S. courts’ reluctance to hear overseas airline crash cases forced the firm to extend its reach globally. by Zoe Tillman ztillman@alm.com Podhurst Orseck co-founder Aaron Podhurst can trace his firm’s expertise in aviation litigation to a single event — the 1972 crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 401 in the Florida Everglades, which killed 101 people […]
