Erin Brockovich stands up to corporate greed

Activist and spokesperson focuses her energies on Actos bladder cancer

Erin Brockovich earned her reputation reining-in a multi-billion-dollar corporation that negligently put people at risk of getting cancer.

She has since become an outspoken advocate for consumers harmed by the negligence of huge companies, those whose slavish devotion to profits causes them to put safety second. Or last. Dead last.

Erin’s mission – now, as then – is to see that companies are held responsible when individual consumers and entire communities are exposed to thoughtless danger.

Allies in the fight against negligence

Erin Brockovich is a pioneer, but she has never stood in the fight alone. One such ally – proud to join Erin in her work – is Weitz & Luxenberg, a nationally-recognized mass-tort law firm that shares Erin’s drive to stand up to negligent companies. Weitz & Luxenberg has represented thousands of clients against corporations that have injured them or endangered their families and communities.

For her part, Erin Brockovich appreciates the attorneys of Weitz & Luxenberg because of their stellar legal work and because she trusts them to take the fight right to the corporations that have injured and endangered the very same people she still works to defend.

Actos and its maker, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, put diabetics at risk

Actos recently was unmasked as a dangerous product capable of causing bladder cancer in the diabetics who took it.

Takeda Pharmaceuticals, the maker of Actos, marketed the drug to treat diabetes by regulating blood sugar. Instead, diabetics who took Actos every day for years discovered they were as much as 40 percent more likely to develop bladder cancer, according to medical studies. These findings come as a shock to diabetics who trusted that Actos was a dependable drug.

Weitz & Luxenberg stepped in to help once Takeda’s product was exposed. Weitz & Luxenberg attorneys have experience guiding clients through complex legal issues like large-scale drug cases. Even now they are shepherding dozens of clients through the legal maze of Actos bladder cancer litigation.

‘I have worked with them and I trust them.’

While Erin Brockovich is fighting corporations like Takeda on the publicity front, Weitz & Luxenberg is doing the same from the trenches of the legal battlefield.

Weitz & Luxenberg now is taking cases involving Actos and bladder cancer and preparing to help clients obtain compensation against a company that put their health at risk. It’s important that these cases go forward not only because Actos victims need to be made whole, but because each case has the potential to send a message to Takeda and other drug manufacturers that there is a steep price to be paid when the health of consumers is disregarded.

Weitz & Luxenberg ranks among the best at achieving extremely favorable results in large-scale torts cases. Thousands of clients have trusted Weitz & Luxenberg to relieve the financial pressure brought on by injuries like bladder cancer – and so can you.

If anyone should know, it’s Erin Brockovich. Here’s what she has to say about Weitz & Luxenberg: “After experiencing firsthand the way Weitz & Luxenberg operates and the tenacious way they take on defendants who have willingly placed people in harm’s way, I felt proud when they asked me to join forces.”