Anderson, Calvin R

Benjamin H. Anderson is the founding member of Anderson Law Offices in Cleveland, Ohio.  Mr. Anderson is an experienced and well-seasoned trial lawyer who has devoted his career of over two decades to medical malpractice, personal injury, pharmaceutical and medical device litigation and class actions. He has tried numerous cases to verdict in courts around the country and has successfully resolved hundreds of medical malpractice cases and thousands of mass tort cases involving bad drugs and bad medical products.

Mr. Anderson has significant experience handling complex class and mass tort litigation.  He embarked on his mass tort experience in the 1980’s with the asbestos litigation, achieving successful results for hundreds of his clients.  He has also successfully tried cases as West Coast Coordinating Counsel in the Duragesic Patch litigation.  He has served on the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee and the Discovery Committee of the In re: Telectronics Pacing Systems, Inc., MDL-1057 pacemaker litigation which led to a non-binding $286 million summary jury trial decision and which ultimately settled for $95 million.  In the In re: Diet Pill ("Fen-Phen") litigation, MDL-1203, Mr. Anderson was on the Phentermine Discovery Committee and served as national counsel for the most severely injured fen-phen plaintiffs ("Class 2B claimants") of that litigation.  The Diet Pill Litigation was successfully resolved for $4.8 billion.  Mr. Anderson handled dozens of fen-phen "opt-out" claims securing millions of dollars for individual clients who chose not to be part of the global settlement.  Mr. Anderson jointly served as national counsel in the In re: Sulzer Hip litigation, MDL-1401, which resolved for over $1 billion.  Mr. Anderson also served in a Discovery Committee role in the In re: Vioxx litigation, MDL 1657 which settled for $4.85 billion.  Mr. Anderson also represented hundreds of claimants in the Educational Testing Systems (ETS) litigation, MDL-1643 which resolved for over $11 million.  Mr. Anderson served on the Discovery Committees in both the In re: Avandia litigation, MDL-1871, as well as the In re: Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents litigation, MDL-1909, and was appointed to serve on the Plaintiff's Steering Committee of In re: Oral Sodium Phosphate Solution-Based Products Liability Litigation (Fleet), MDL-2066.

Mr. Anderson has vast experience handling all forms of personal injury and medical malpractice cases with specific emphasis on birth injury litigation.  He has achieved record settlements and verdicts for children who have sustained brain injury and Erb’s Palsy/brachial plexus injuries due to obstetrical negligence.  He has settled and tried to verdict numerous seven-figure medical malpractice cases.

Mr. Anderson has been invited to speak on numerous occasions at attorney education conferences throughout the United States in the areas of medical malpractice and mass torts and has taught trial skills to attorneys attending NITA conferences and law students on law school trial teams and in moot court competitions.  Mr. Anderson is frequently asked by attorneys across the country to co-counsel on pharmaceutical and medical device cases as well as oon medical malpractice cases.  Anderson Law Offices is proud of that fact that its principal source of business continues to be through referrals from other attorneys and former clients.

Mr. Anderson is admitted to practice before all of the courts of California and Ohio, the U.S. District Court, Central and Northern Districts of California and the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio.  He is an active member of the American Association for Justice and was also appointed to the Board of Trustees for the Ohio Association for Justice which is the largest organization of trial lawyers in the State of Ohio. Mr. Anderson is very involved at Parkside Church in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, where he serves in several ministries.