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Steven Kazan
Steven Kazan is an attorney and lead partner of Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood, located in Oakland, California. The firm’s primary focus is asbestos and mesothelioma litigation, a cancer whose only known cause is exposure to asbestos. Kazan was the plaintiff attorney in some of the first ever damage awards in an asbestos product lawsuit. Litigation related to asbestos injuries and property damages has been claimed to be the longest-running mass tort in U.S. history.〔(Rand Institute, 2005 )〕
== History and Asbestos Litigation ==
In 1973, Kazan served as the plaintiff's attorney for the first ever damage award in an asbestos product lawsuit. The damage award was $79,000. Then, in 1974, Kazan formed his own law firm and filed suit on behalf of Reba Rudkin, who developed Asbestosis after working for 29 years at Johns-Manville's plant in Pittsburg, California. Following this case, Kazan went on to represent over one hundred Abestos-affected workers from Johns-Manville plants.〔
In 1982, Kazan won a $150,000 verdict for Bob Speake, one of the workers from the Johns-Manville plant in Pittsburg. Mr. Speake’s case is regarded as a “threshold verdict” because it created the opportunity for punitive damage verdicts against Johns-Manville. Kazan eventually had 393 cases pending against the company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Johns-Manville-products-Corp-v-Superior-Court )〕 Six months after the Speake verdict, Johns-Manville filed for bankruptcy, one of the first companies to do so as a result of asbestos litigation.〔
In 1991, the firm won the largest non-punitive award in an asbestos case in California on behalf of a dying plumber and his wife.
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