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John P. Comerford

135 Delaware Ave
5th Floor
Buffalo, NY 14202-2415
Phone: (716) 849-0701
Fax: (716) 849-0708

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John P. Comerford is a Partner at Lipsitz & Ponterio, LLC.  Mr. Comerford concentrates his practice in the areas of Asbestos Litigation, Construction Accidents, Lead Paint, Product Liability, Fire Loss, Insurance Claims, Automobile Accidents and Workers’ Compensation. He devotes the majority of his time to trial matters. Mr. Comerford has litigated cases throughout Upstate New York in cities which include Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany. 

Over the course of his career, he has helped hundreds of people recover financial awards for injuries. Mr. Comerford obtained a $2,000,000 jury verdict for a plant worker with lung cancer and asbestosis. He recently obtained a $2,000,000 settlement for a 61 year old housewife with mesothelioma exposed to asbestos from laundering her husband’s contaminated work clothes. Mr. Comerford assisted in trying an automobile accident case in Federal Court which settled for $890,000. He has also assisted homeowners and commercial property owners in cases directly against insurance companies. After a two week trial in Buffalo, New York, a jury ordered an insurance company to pay a Niagara Falls hotel owner $910,000 for wrongly denying his claim based on “arson.” Another Niagara Falls hotel owner recently received a settlement of $800,000 for water damage.
Mr. Comerford resides in Amherst, NY is married and is the father of three boys and two girls.

Admissions:

1996; New York, Massachusetts and U.S. District Court, Western District of New York

Education:

  • B.S., 1990, Cornell University
  • J.D., 1995, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School

Memberships:

  • American Association of Trial Lawyers
  • New York State Trial Lawyers' Association
  • Bar Association of Erie County
  • New York State Bar Association

Speaking Engagements:

Mr. Comerford made presentations on asbestos at the Plaintiffs Asbestos Litigation Seminar in Ft. Lauderdale (2003), Harris Martin Publishing in San Francisco (2004), and is scheduled to present for Mealy’s in 2004.


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