Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$30 million
Practice Area(s):
Environmental & Mass Tort
The firm led by Harold Berger served as co-lead counsel and
obtained a $30 million settlement for damages resulting from a very
large oil spill.
Status:Settled
Practice Area(s):
Environmental & Mass Tort
The firm served as counsel in a consolidation of wrongful death
and other catastrophic injury cases brought against two
manufacturers of turkey products, arising out of a 2002 outbreak of
Listeria Monocytogenes in the Northeastern United States, which...
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$507.5 million
Practice Area(s):
Environmental & Mass Tort
On September 16, 1994, a jury trial of several months duration
resulted in a record punitive damages award of $5 billion against
the Exxon defendants as a consequence of one of the largest oil
spills in U.S. history. The award was reduced to $507.5...
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$1.25 billion
Practice Area(s):
Environmental & Mass Tort
Through membership on the executive committee in cases brought
by Holocaust survivors against the three largest Switzerland-based
banks, this litigation was settled for $1.25 billion. A
significant opinion in the case can be found at: 105 F. Supp.2d...
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$4.5 billion
Practice Area(s):
Environmental & Mass Tort
Through the firm's co-lead counsel role, cases against German
industry and banks for the use of slave and forced labor during the
Nazi era were ultimately settled in the context of international
negotiations which created a fund for victims of $4.5...
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$215 million
Practice Area(s):
Environmental & Mass Tort
As co-lead counsel, the firm successfully litigated a case in
which a nationwide class of elementary and secondary schools and
school districts suffering property damage as a result of asbestos
in their buildings were provided relief. Pursuant to an...
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$3.03 million
Practice Area(s):
Environmental & Mass Tort
Berger & Montague represented a class of 220 persons
asserting injury in a subway crash. Despite a statutory cap
of $1 million on damages recovery from the public carrier, and
despite a finding of sole fault of the public carrier in the...
Status:Settled
Settlement Amount:
$25 million
Practice Area(s):
Environmental & Mass Tort
As lead/liaison counsel, the firm successfully litigated the
case and reached a settlement in 1981 of $25 million in favor of
individuals, corporations and other entities suffering property
damage as a result of the nuclear incident involved