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Levy Angstreich often receives press attention for successful verdicts and settlements that have been achieved for its clients. The firm also receives press relating to its involvement in the community, as well as for professional articles published by its attorneys and lectures given by its members. This section highlights some of our firm’s more notable accomplishments.
$5.3 Million verdict named one of Pennsylvania’s 50 largest verdicts in 2007
Reported in The Legal IntelligencerSee Full News Story/Download Article (PDF) A $5.3 million jury award was obtained for the estate of Dennis Hillard and his wife Angela, by Levy Angstreich shareholder, Lawrence Finney in Wyoming County’s largest ever jury verdict and one of Pennsylvania’s largest jury verdicts in 2008.
$6,000,000 settlement in wrongful death and survival action
Pennsylvania Supreme Court hears arguments to uphold $3,760,000 verdict obtained on behalf of 12,000 City of Philadelphia employees
Reported in the The Legal Intelligencer April 15, 2008 See Full News Story/Download Article (PDF) Levy Angstreich shareholder, Steven E. Angstreich argued before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday, April 14, 2008 to appeal a decision by the Commonwealth Court which reversed a verdict obtained by Angstreich on behalf of 12,000 City of Philadelphia employees in McShea v. City of Philadelphia class action. The law suit alleged that that the city had breached the terms of the city employee pretax “Section 457” savings plan by various acts of mismanagement.
Daughter ordered to repay $25,000,000 obtained through undue influence
March 16, 2007 Reported in The San Antonio Express-NewsSee Full News Story/Download Article (PDF) On March 14, 2005 Suzanne Mathews filed a Petition with the Probate Court No. 1 in Bexar County, Texas seeking to be appointed temporary and permanent guardian over Lillian Glasser, her 86 year old mother. Less than one month later Lillian, a long standing resident of the State of New Jersey, awoke to find herself involuntarily committed by Mathews to the Nix Hospital for Behavioral Health Services in San Antonio, Texas and more than $25,000,000 in assets transferred from her accounts to a family limited partnership, controlled by Mathews and her husband. Desperate to return home to her family and friends in New Jersey, Lillian repeatedly called her nephew Rick Smith for assistance. On behalf of his aunt Smith filed suit seeking the intervention of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Middlesex County, through his counsel Thomas S. Harty, a shareholder of Levy Angstreich Finney Baldante Rubenstein & Coren, P.C..
U.S. Court dismisses Indian claim to 3,044 acres in Burlington County, New Jersey
Donald B. Veix, Jr., Managing Member of the Princeton Office of Levy, Angstreich together with Colorado co-counsel obtained a significant victory for the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Band of Mohican Indians when The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, by way of Senior District Judge Rodriguez, issued a 40-page Opinion in a significant case involving a claim by an unrecognized Indian tribe to 3,044 acres in Shamong Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. It claims that it is the successor-in-interest to an Indian group for which the Colony of New Jersey set aside a large tract of land in Burlington County in 1758 which became known as the Brotherton Reservation. The plaintiff, Unalachtigo Band of the Nanticoke-Lenni Lenape Nation previously filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of New Jersey which was dismissed. The present action was filed in December, 2005 in Federal Court and named the State of New Jersey and the Honorable Jon S. Corzine, Governor as defendants.
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