Topic: Marc Bern

Costa Concordia Rescuers Find 16th Body

Rescuers searching the stricken Costa Concordia found a body on bridge 3 Tuesday, bringing the number of confirmed dead from the wreck to 16, civil...

Editorial: Free lawyers wanted

The special master named to run the soon-to-reopen the 9/11 victim compensation fund has begun to unveil her plans - and she appears to be on an...
Ground Zero responders are being warned to stay away from personal injury lawyers trying to cash in on the recently passed 9/11 Zadroga health...
The law firm that pocketed more than $100 million suing the city over Sept. 11 is trying to cash in on the just-passed Zadroga 9/11 health bill.....
The long, expensive, emotionally racking lawsuits filed by more than 10,000 World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers have come to an end, as...

Worth-less lawyers

Manhattan Federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein got to the heart of the trouble with the proposed $712 million World Trade Center lawsuit settlements at...
Tough choice ahead for sick 9/11 responders, who have 90 days to say yes to $657M settlement In the years after the 9/11 terror attacks, 10,000 people who helped clear mountains of debris from Lower Manhattan filed lawsuits blaming ...
New York Court Sends Sept. 11 WTC Health Claims to Federal CourtNearly 300 workers who want to sue the city for illnesses or injuries suffered at ground zero will have their claims heard in federal court, a state appeals panel has ruled ...
Nearly 300 workers who want to sue the city for illnesses or injuries suffered at ground zero will have their claims heard in federal court, a state appeals panel has ruled.The Appellate Division decision Thursday reversed a lower court ruling that ...
Trial lawyer Marc Bern trolls for targets by browsing arcane medical journals in search of drugmakers bound for trouble; then he collects clients by placing ads in tabloid newspapers. He instantly alerted an ally in the tort business, lawyer Paul Napoli of ...