LOS ANGELES, Calif. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury this month handed Hennessy Industries, Inc. as successor to AMMCO Tools, Inc., its first-ever loss in an asbestos-exposure lawsuit despite the defendant company's self-assurances that the grieving family of an Army veteran and automotive parts store owner who died of mesothelioma had no chance of winning, victorious plaintiffs' law firm Weitz and Luxenberg, P.C., today announced.

NEW YORK, N.Y. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: Weitz and Luxenberg, P.C. has launched an investigation into injuries sustained by patients when catheters used during cardiac angiogram procedures to inject contrast dye into blood vessels malfunctioned by either splitting or separating, the firm announced.

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: Stockdale Law Firm, a well-known divorce and family law firm in El Dorado Hills, has announced it is transferring ownership at the end of August with the intent to carry on the success and trust it has built over the last 12 years. Previous owner Myrlys L. Stockdale moves to Office of Inspector General.

NEW YORK, N.Y. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: Weitz and Luxenberg today initiated an investigation into the harm suffered by patients whose private health and financial records were hacked during a recent data breach in Indiana, the law firm announced. Records of approximately 4 million patients found their way into criminal hands.

OJAI, Calif. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: 'Chosen Lawyers reaffirms its commitment to making 'Equal Justice Under Law' available to all people regardless of race, religion, gender, national origin or status,' proclaims Paymon Barati-Darmian, attorney and founder.

NEWS: Bernard Walsh, of Shapiro Goldman Babboni and Walsh, selected as a member of 'Florida Legal Elite 2015' by Florida Trend magazine. Attorneys who are included in this group were chosen by a lengthy and exhaustive process that begins with peer selection.

NEW YORK, N.Y. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: Personal records and insurance information on 18,000 North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System patients were compromised by a data breach that occurred last year in Texas but went undisclosed for many months, and now Weitz and Luxenberg P.C. is considering filing negligence, economic injury and failure-to-warn claims against Dallas-based Global Care Delivery, the law firm today announced.

NEW YORK, N.Y. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: Nationally prominent personal injury law firm Weitz and Luxenberg, P.C., today said that 95 percent of registered eligible patients are now enrolled in the Stryker modular hip settlement program. This program has been established to ensure that each injured patient will receive a share of more than $1 billion as compensation for problems encountered with Rejuvenate and ABGII metal-on-metal modular hip implants.

SARASOTA, Fla. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: On Thursday, June 4, attorney David L. Goldman of the law firm of Shapiro, Goldman, Babboni and Walsh gave the commencement speech to the 2015 graduating class of the Westcoast School of Human Development in Sarasota, Fla.

NEW YORK, N.Y. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: Weitz and Luxenberg P.C. is investigating another privacy breach in 2015 that has resulted in the theft of patients' personal information at several hospitals in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. These hospitals all used the billing services of Medical Management LLC, based in North Carolina, announced the law firm.