Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP

Samuel Meirowitz is an accomplished NYC personal injury lawyer, trial attorney and relentless advocate for his clients. He is a member of the “Top 100 Trial Lawyers” and was named a “Rising Star” in 2013 and 2014 by Super Lawyers and a Super Lawyer every year since 2016. In 2013, Mr. Meirowitz obtained what is believed to be the first multi-million dollar asbestos verdict seen in more than two decades in a New York federal court. In the highly contentious matter, Mr. Meirowitz was able to convince the jury to hold a boiler manufacturer responsible for 60 percent of the $3.8 million awarded, despite the defendant’s attempt to escape all blame by pointing fingers at the plaintiff’s employer and the U.S. Navy (in which the plaintiff admirably served from 1966-1970 during the Vietnam conflict). This verdict was upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

In an earlier group of cases brought before a jury, Mr. Meirowitz convinced reluctant corporations to pay substantial confidential settlement amounts to nine smokers resolving their claims that workplace exposure to the toxic mineral asbestos contributed to each man’s development of lung cancer. Sam is a big believer that: “cases settle when the defendant realizes that the jury is going to hold them responsible for their conduct.