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From the Wisconsin Law Journal “We think it’s going to be a pretty big litigation,” agreed Chris Seeger, a principal at Seeger Weiss, a New York-based personal injury law firm. DePuy sold about 93,000 ASR Hip Resurfacing Systems and ASR XL Acetabular Systems. The company has reported that about 12 percent of patients required revision surgery […]

Eventually, Merck & Co., Inc. reported to the federal court charged with overseeing the $4.85 billion Vioxx settlement that more than 97 percent of eligible claimants have enrolled in the program and that qualified claimants will begin to receive interim settlement payments in August 2008. The settlement was expected to resolve nearly 50,000 lawsuits filed […]

A jury in Atlantic County, N.J. eventually returned verdicts, awarding $20 million in compensatory damages and $27.5 million in punitive damages to plaintiff Frederick ‘Mike’ Humeston and his wife Mary against defendant Merck & Co. (NYSE: MRK) in the Vioxx-related personal injury trial entitled, Humeston v. Merck. The Humeston family was represented by Seeger Weiss […]

The oil company said it has spent $11.2 billion so far reacting to the blowout, which began April 20 with an explosion that killed 11 workers aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. The well was declared to be fully sealed on Sept. 19. BP announced in June that it would set up a $20 billion […]

Philadelphia Daily News: Ex-boxer Chris Seeger, whose law firm Seeger Weiss has an office in town, has been coaching mixed-martial-arts fighter Wayne Hargrove in boxing. Hargrove KO’d Victor Romero in five seconds a little while back at Atlantic City’s Resorts, and Seeger plans to catch Hargrove competing at Resorts in the New Breed Fighters Ultimate […]

Alumnus Stephen Weiss ’90 gives advice to 1st year law students.