Criminal Law

• Wrongful Death
  At GPW, not only do we handle more common types of cases, but we have the ability to handle unusual and the complex litigation requiring specialized knowledge and strict attention to detail. Our attorneys have handled cases involving toxic exposure to solvents; hip, knee and ankle replacements; misdiagnosis; wrongful death; radon exposure; and deformities resulting from plastic surgery.
• Sex Crimes
  Mr. Chervenick began his legal career as an assistant district attorney in Pittsburgh, where he was in the General Trial Unit and later the Crimes Person Unit, wherein he primarily tried sexual assault cases. For ten months, Mr. Chervenick was the ADA in City Court, where he prosecuted more than 8,000 preliminary hearings.
• Assault

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
  The case of Borel v. Fibreboard Paper Products Corporation et. al. was a landmark court case that set the precedent for product liability and personal injury claims for asbestos workers and their families. Clarence Borel had been an asbestos worker for 33 years who had developed asbestosis and mesothelioma by 1969. His initial complaint sought damages against 11 asbestos-insulation manufacturers: Fiberboard Paper Products, Johns-Manville, UNARCO, Ruberoid, Eagle-Pitcher, Pittsburgh Corning, Owens-Corning, Combustion Engineering, Philip Carey Corporation, the Armstrong Contracting & Supply Corporation, and the Standard Asbestos Manufacturing & Insulation Company. Prior to this case, an injured worker’s only recourse was to file a workers compensation claim against his employer for his lung disease. The doctrine of strict liability (Section 402A) aided in Borel’s case, holding product manufacturers liable for neglecting to warn about their hazardous products and stay up-to-date on the latest scientific research. The verdict came back in favor of Borel (who did not live to see the outcome of the trial), which triggered over 25,000 asbestos lawsuits over the next decade. Workers suffering from mesothelioma, lung cancer and asbestosis could now file product liability suits not only against their employers, but against product manufactures as well. This set the stage for asbestos lawsuits as we know them today.

Property Law

• Premises Liability
  Trevor A. McKnight is an associate attorney at Goldberg, Persky, & White, P.C., with a focus in asbestos litigation, products liability, and premises liability.
• Property Damage

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  At Goldberg, Persky & White, we have been dedicated to protecting the rights of individuals for over 30 years. In that time we have been pioneers in asbestos litigation, but we have also handled many personal injury cases.
• Medical Malpractice
  Below are a few of the major areas your case may fall into, but it’s not exhaustive. Injuries don’t fit into neat boxes, and it takes skilled medical malpractice attorneys like ours to piece together the often complex facts of an individual case to protect the rights of our clients.
• Auto Accidents

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
  Asbestos litigation is the longest and most expensive mass tort in United States history. Since the first lawsuits began in the 1920s, there have more than 700,000 claimants, 8,000 defendants, and billions of dollars in damages. Many asbestos manufacturers filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy which allowed them to set up Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts to pay the personal injury claims to those suffering because of their asbestos exposure. As of 2017, over 100 companies have filed for bankruptcy. Today, asbestos lawsuits continue because the latency period between the time of initial asbestos exposure and disease development can span decades. Recent reports have indicated that mesothelioma rates could be on the rise until at least 2020.