Peter H. Weinberger has successfully handled a wide variety of complex injury and wrongful death cases caused by medical malpractice, defective products, and motor vehicle accidents. In the medical malpractice field, he has tried and settled cases that have involved failures to timely diagnose diseases failed surgeries and birth injuries. In the field of defective products, he has concluded cases involving industrial plant explosions, defective insulation products, dangerous drugs, and defective machinery. Some of the complex motor vehicle cases have included collisions involving overloaded trucks, tractor-trailer collisions, and railroad crossing cases. Peter is experienced in counseling clients who have suffered catastrophic injuries requiring lifetime medical care and in evaluating and presenting the economic and non-economic losses associated with wrongful death.
Mr. Weinberger has been appointed as Plaintiff’s co-liaison counsel in the National Prescription Opiate Multidistrict Litigation case in the Northern District of Ohio Federal Court representing cities, counties, hospital groups, and third-party payers against the manufacturers and distributors of opiate medications such as OxyContin and Fentanyl. This case seeks to recover the enormous public costs associated with the opioid epidemic caused by the illegal marketing and distribution of these drugs. Peter has also served as a member of the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee in several cases centralized in Multi-District Litigation including in re Teflon and in re Gadolinium and is currently a member of the Plaintiff’s Executive Committee in the Olmesartan (Benicar) MDL.
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Personal Life
Pete and his wife, Laurie, have been married for more than 50 years and have two children, Kelly and Adam, and four grandchildren.
Pete has served in many leadership roles in professional and charitable organizations. He has been president of two local bar associations, president of the First Unitarian Church of Cleveland, and president of Chagrin Valley Country Club.
Pete serves as chairman of the leadership council of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.
