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Levy Baldante 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.
Rick Brown, Levy Baldante paralegal named Volunteer of the Year by the Philadelphia Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Foundation
$5.3 Million verdict named one of Pennsylvania’s 50 largest verdicts in 2007
Reported in The Legal Intelligencer
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A $5.3 million jury award was obtained for the estate of Dennis Hillard and his wife Angela, by Levy Baldante 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, Baldante, Finney, Rubenstein, Cohen & Chizmar, P.C..
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