Anthony Irpino

Since 1996, when he founded Irpino Law Firm, Anthony Irpino has been a creative and energetic advocate of victim’s rights in difficult and complex liability cases, helping to earn plaintiffs more than $350 million in settlements.

His fourteen years’ experience working on behalf of plaintiffs have been focused on complex litigation in areas such as nursing home abuse, wrongful deaths, and Jones Act/Maritime law.

Anthony has a reputation as a leader in class action litigation, serving as class counsel for plaintiffs in more than forty (40) class action, multi-district litigation and mass joinder lawsuits involving pharmaceutical litigation, Hurricane Katrina, chemical releases, explosions, fires, contaminations and evacuations, among many others.

Because of his devotion to class action procedure, Anthony is an expert in strategic matters related to class actions and mass joinder cases. In most class actions he’s been involved in, Anthony has served in leadership roles of leading discovery, obtaining class certification, initiating and overseeing the Proof of Claim Process, and trial work.

Anthony has been class counsel in five (5) class action cases that have been tried to judgment. Of particular note is a chemical leak case, in Re: New Orleans Train Car Leak and Fire Litigation, which resulted in a 3.35 billion dollar judgment. Additionally, in a train derailment and evacuation case, Mary Self, et al. v. Illinois Central Railroad, Anthony was co-lead trial attorney, arguing the case before a jury and winning a favorable judgment for his clients.

Currently, Anthony serves in the following capacities on these Class Actions:

• Co-Lead counsel in the Memorial Class Action
• Lead Counsel in the Lindy Boggs Class Action
• Co-Lead counsel in the Memorial Class Action
• Chair of the Document Depository and Privilege Log Committee in the Vioxx Class Action
• Court appointed Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee Member and Administrative Committee Chairman in the Fosamax Class Action
• Chair of the Depository Committee in the Chinese Dry Wall Class Action
• Court Appointed Executive Committee Member in the Cox Cable Class Action
• Chair of the Class Certification Committee as well as the Law and Briefing Committee in the Teacher’s Class Action

A native of Chicago, where his family owns a successful construction and real estate business, Anthony graduated from Tulane Law School and decided to plant roots in New Orleans. He is admitted to practice before all Louisiana courts, both state and federal, the United States District Court for the Eastern, Western, and Middle Districts, and the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Louisiana State Bar Association, the New Orleans Bar Association, and the Louisiana Association for Justice.

Outside of helping people in his professional life, Anthony helps others in his personal life as well. He is actively involved with the Ozanam Inn, H.E.L.P. (Homeless Experience Legal Protection) Program, and the Harry S. Thompson Center, where his energies are focused on providing legal services and guidance to the elderly, disabled, and homeless.

Anthony is keenly aware of the needs of low-income families and the homeless and supports affordable housing programs, sponsoring education for children of low-income families and providing meals and clothing for the homeless. In addition to giving free notary services for low-income people, Anthony and the Irpino Law Firm also provide subsidies for Chaplin work in hospitals and jails.

2010

$900,000 Settlement: Premises Liability.

$200,000+ settlement: Property Damage.

$300,000 settlement: Property Damage.

$100,000 settlement: Property Damage.

$560,000 settlement: Automobile Accident.

$200,000 settlement: Property Damage & Business Interruption.

$180,000+ judgment: Breach of Contract. English Turn POA v. Kempton, et al., 
CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS, Case #: 06-10998, Div. “I”

$230,000+ settlement: Automobile Accident.

$300,000 settlement: Property Damage & Business Interruption.

$200,000+ jury verdict: Elevator Accident. Gilbert v. Schindler Elevator, et al., 
CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS, Case #: 05-4050, Div. “B”

$200,000 settlement: Automobile Accident.

$1.5 million settlement: Wrongful Death.

2009

$820,000 settlement: Business Interruption Claim.

$735,000 settlement: Property Damage Claim.

$650,000 settlement: Business Interruption Claim.

$590,000 jury verdict: Automobile Accident. Steib v. Gemini Insurance Co., et al., 
CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS, Case #: 04-17374, Div. “N”

$145,000 settlement: Automobile Accident.

$1.15 million settlement: Property Damage.

 

 

 

 

2008

$2 million settlement: Philip Bayer, et al. v. Omni Hotels Management Corporation, et al., (mold contamination – class action); serving as Co-Lead Counsel. CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS, Case #: 2003-17354, Div. “H”

$195,000 settlement: Automobile Accident.

$160,000 settlement: Chemical Exposure.

2007

$4.85 billion settlement: In Re: Vioxx Products Liability Litigation, (pharmaceutical litigation against Merck for Vioxx); Head of Privilege Log Sub-Committee, Head of Depository Sub-Committee, member of Science Committee and member of Discovery Committee. USDC, EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA, MDL No. 1657

$330 million settlement:  Turner, et al. v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc., (Property contamination and exposure – class action); serving as Court Appointed Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee Member, Chairman of Class Action Committee and member of Discovery and Damages Committees. USDC, EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA, CA No. 05-4206, Section “L”

$560,000 jury verdict: Property Damage Claim.

$425,000 settlement: Construction Defect Case.

$390,000 settlement: Automobile Accidents

$212,500 judgment: Property Damage Claim.

2006

$57 million jury verdict: Property Contamination.

$1 million+ settlement: Asbestos Exposure.

$575,000 settlement: Property Damage Claim

$530,000 settlement: Prescription Drug – Product Liability

2005

$400,000 settlement: Offshore Injury.

$215,000 settlement: Employee Benefits Case.

$200,000 settlement: Chemical Exposure.

$$350,000 settlement: Mold Contamination & Exposure.

120,000 judgment: Mold Contamination & Exposure.

2004

$6 million+ settlement: Offshore Injury.

$1 million+ settlement: Clothing Burns – Product Liability.

$1 million+ settlement: Mold Contamination & Exposure.

$350,000 settlement: Automobile Accident.

2003

$92 million+ jury verdict: Gaylord Chemical

$1 million settlement: Latex Glove – Product Liability.

$700,000 settlement: Automobile Accident.

$250,000 settlement: Automobile Accident.

2002

$1 million+ settlement: Property Contamination

1999

$20 million settlement: Gail Clement, et al. vs. Occidental Chemical Corporation, et al., (1994 explosion, fire and chemical release- class action); served as associate attorney to Court appointed Plaintiff’s Steering Committee Member, Co-Liaison Counsel, Discovery Chairman and Co-Lead Counsel. 29TH JDC FOR THE PARISH OF ST. CH

1998

$35 million settlement: Beverly Louis, et al. vs. Koch Industries, Inc., et al., (1995 chemical release- class action); served as associate attorney to Court appointed Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee Member, Discovery Chairman and Lead Trial Attorney. 29TH JDC FOR THE PARISH OF ST. CHARLES, NO. #44-848, DIVISION “E” – SETTLED.

ARLES, DOCKET NO. #42,624 c/w all cases, DIVISION “E”- SETTLED.

1997

$3.35 billion jury verdict: Tank Car Fire. In Re: New Orleans Train Car Leak and Fire Litigation, CDC Orleans Parish, Case No. #87-16374, Div. “B”(1987).