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Since 1860, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley has successfully practiced law in Cincinnati, across the United States, and beyond. In the past 30 years, the firm has been involved in a number of high-profile local, national, and international cases including:
- $49 million in settlements with multiple insurance companies and manufacturers for victims and their families of the 1977 Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Ky.
- $200 million settlement with Dow Chemical in 1983 for injuries to Vietnam War veterans resulting from exposure to the chemical defoliant Agent Orange.
- $165 million settlement with Pfizer Inc. in 1992 for recipients of the Bjork-Shiley artificial heart valve.
- $100 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Energy and its private contractor in 1994 for exposure to radioactive materials to workers and nearby residents of the Fernald Nuclear Weapons Plant.
- $3.2 billion settlement with Dow Corning in 1998 for women with silicone breast implants.
- $2.7 billion settlement with the Libyan government in 2003 for families of victims killed in the Pan Am Flight 103 crash over Lockerbie, Scotland.
- $145.5 million global settlement with DPL, Inc. in 2003 on behalf of shareholders, over losses in the utility's $1 billion investment portfolio.
- $5 billion settlement with German corporations and Swiss and Austrian banks for the World Jewish Restitution Organization, which the firm represented pro bono.
- $410 million settlement agreement in 2006 with mortgage lending giant Freddie Mac and three ousted executives, who were accused of securities fraud. The settlement was on behalf of the Ohio Public Employee Retirement System and Ohio’s State Teachers Retirement System.
- $206 billion in settlements in In Re Castano Tobacco Litigation (lead counsel for settlement negotiations and member of the executive committee)
- $926 million judgment in June 2008 in the class action lawsuit involving Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant near Denver, Colorado.
- $90 million settlement in the class action lawsuit involving child sexual abuse in the Diocese of Covington, Kentucky, concluded in May 2009.
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