Michael L. Rosenberg

Michael L. Rosenberg has been with Seeger Weiss LLP since its inception in 1999. He has managed the firm’s Newark office since its opening that same year. Michael devotes the majority of his time representing clients injured by a variety of pharmaceutical products, including Accutane, Zometa, Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents, Pain Pumps, Ortho Evra, Vioxx and PPA.

Michael has negotiated individual settlements on behalf of hundreds of clients injured by pharmaceutical products, including various PPA-containing over-the-counter cough and cold medicines; Baycol, a cholesterol-lowering drug manufactured by Bayer; Ortho-Evra, the birth control patch manufactured by Johnson & Johnson; and Magnevist and Omniscan, gadolinium-based contrast agents manufactured by Bayer and Johnson & Johnson, respectively.

Michael played an integral role in the settlement of personal injury claims against the manufacturers of Dexatrim, a PPA-containing weight loss product, on behalf of 500 stroke victims who claimed that their strokes were caused by Dexatrim. The settlement is valued at approximately $200 million. Michael was selected to be a member of the Delaco Trust Advisory Committee tasked with overseeing the administration of the settlement.

Michael was part of the successful trial teams that won several jury verdicts totaling in excess of $20 million against Hoffman La-Roche, Inc. The Atlantic County, New Jersey juries found that Hoffman La-Roche, Inc. failed to adequately warn the plaintiffs and their doctors about the risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease associated with Accutane, and that their failure to warn was the proximate cause of the plaintiffs’ Inflammatory Bowel Disease, a permanent condition, shortly after they stopped using Accutane.

Michael is also president and founder of the Benjamin M. Rosenberg Foundation, a non-profit, charitable organization devoted to various children’s causes. The Benjamin M. Rosenberg Foundation was founded in memory of Michael’s beloved son, Benjamin Matthew, who passed away unexpectedly in May, 2008 at the age of two.