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. 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.
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 Asbestos-affected workers from Johns-Manville plants. 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.<ref name=mrmeso/>

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