Florida Law Firm Resume

2006 Firm Resume  |  Levin Papantonio Thomas Mitchell Rafferty & Proctor, P.A.

Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Rafferty, & Proctor &, P.A. is a firm of 31 attorneys and 92 staff members, have been involved in complex litigation and class action lawsuits for over a decade.  Named one of America's most winning law firms by the National Law Journal and perhaps best known for its history of plaintiff jury verdicts and its key role in the tobacco and diet-drug national settlements, the Levin, Papantonio firm has represented clients throughout the nation, including thousands of Asbestos cases, more than 2,000 Breast Implant cases, more than 4,000 Fen-Phen cases, and hundreds of clients involved in each of the following: Hemophiliac-AIDs, Rexzulin, Baycol, PPA, Baycol, Zyprexa, Fosamax, Zoloft, the DePuy hip recall and Vioxx. 

Firm attorneys have served on the Plaintiffs' Management Committee, Discovery Committee, and Expert Witness Committee for the In Re: Diet Drugs Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1203, as well as Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for the In Re: Propulsid Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1355.  The firm was on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, and established and managed the document depository for the In Re: Factor VIII or IX Concentrate Blood Products Litigation, MDL No. 986.  Mr. Papantonio was Florida liaison counsel for the In Re: Silicone Gel Breast Implant Litigation, MDL 926. 

The firm has been actively involved in several other mass torts and class actions, including litigation involving L-Tryptophan, Dalkon Shield, The Amtrak Derailment (In Re: Amtrak ASunset Limited@ Train Crash in Bayou Canot, Alabama, on September 22, 1993, MDL No. 1003), Microsoft (In Re: Microsoft Corp. Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1332), AOL (In Re: America Online, Inc., Version 5.0 Software Litigation, MDL No. 1341), MCI (In Re: MCI Non-Subscriber Telephone Rates Litigation, MDL No. 1275), Florida Tobacco Litigation, Insurance (Annie Mae Phelan v. Life Insurance Company of Georgia, Inc., et al., Class Action CV 94-002696), and other discrimination and consumer fraud class actions. 

Attorneys Fred Levin, Mike Papantonio, Troy Rafferty and Leo Thomas are listed in the publication Best Lawyers in America.  Mr. Papantonio is a fellow with the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers.

Levin Papantonio has served its clients in the following litigation:

RECENT JURY VERDICTS 

• BIVINS  v. ZURICH AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY  -  CASE NO.: 04 CA 000228 - In the Circuit court for Walton County, Florida , $2.6M  Jury verdict for plaintiff  -  Sept. 1, 2006
• Crocker v. Emmons Steel Erectors, Inc. - CASE NO. 2002-CA-882 - Circuit Court  for Escambia County, FL  -  Death of construction foreman $2.4 Million verdict  -  Aug. 3, 2006
• Jane Doe v. Kevin Moncla  - CASE NO.: 2004-CA-000274 S  - Circuit Court for Okaloosa County, Florida, Jury Verdict for $3.250M in privacy invasion case -   March 2006
• Sanchez v. Parke Davis District Court of Nueces County, Texas, Case No.00-6523-F  - pharmaceutical injury trial - Rezulin Verdict $43,000,000.00 - Dec. 21, 2001
• Morgado v. Warner-Lambert, Case No.: 403243-01 in the  Supreme Court of the State of New York ,  County of New York  -  pharmaceutical injury trial - Rezulin,  $2 million verdict - March 3, 2003
• Mo' Money Associates, Inc. v. Gateway, Inc. - Case No. 3:01cv110 - in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Case No.  - Commercial dispute verdict $3.622M - July 17, 2002

RECENT SETTLEMENTS

• In Re Cisco Systems, Inc Securities Litigation, File No.C-01-20418 -JW  - U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California -  Co-Lead Counsel, $99.8 million settlement in securities fraud class action settlement - Sept. 2006
• In Re High Sulpher Content Gasoline Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1632, In the U.S. Distict Court For the Eastern District of Louisiana, PSC and Co-Lead Trial Counsel, class settlement for $99M. - Sept. 2006

  SAMPLES v. CONOCO, Case No. 88016 in the Circuit Court for Escambia  C ounty, Florida , $90 M settlement Nov. 2004. 

• In Re Zyprexa Products Liability Litigation - MDL No. 1596, in U.S. Court for the Eastern District of New York - Plaintiffs Steering Committee - Mass Settlements totaling $700 M - Dec. 2005
• PHYLLIS HODGES  VS.  WYETH, INC. -  Civil File No.  2002-VS-043365A  -  In The State Court for Fulton County ,  Georgia   -  Diet Drug Jury Trial  resulting in  Mass confidential settlements before verdict rendered -  Jan.  2005 
• Various confidential PPA settlements totaling over $17M with different defendants

LEADERSHIP (current list)

• In re Vioxx Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1657 (E.D. Louisiana) (Plaintiff Steering Committee, Co-Chair Discovery Committee, Science Committee, Lead and Co-Lead Counsel on hundreds of individual cases) 
• In re Accutane Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1626 (M.D. Florida) (Co-Chair Discovery Committee) 
• In re Bextra and Celebrex Marketing Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1699 (N.D. California) (Plaintiff's Steering Committee, Co-Chair Discovery Committee, Science Committee) 
• In re Cisco Systems, Inc., Securities & Derivative Litigation, MDL 1527 (N.D. California) (Co-Lead Counsel) 
• In re Guidant Defibrillators Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1708 (District of Minnesota) (Plaintiff's Steering Committee, Discovery Committee, Trial Team Committee) 
• In re Medtronic, Inc., Implantable Defibrillators Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1726 (District of Minnesota) (Plaintiff's Steering Committee, Co-Chair Discovery Committee) 
• In re Ortho Evra Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1742 (N.D. Ohio) (Plaintiff's Steering Committee) 
• In re Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1535 (N.D. Ohio) (Plaintiff's Executive Committee, Co-Chair Discovery Committee)   
• In re Fosamax Products Liability Litigation, MDL 1789 (S.D. N.Y.) (pending Co-lead counsel assignment)