Recent Victories

$750,000 – Union carpenter sustained serious shoulder injuries when he fell after stepping on another contractor’s debris (March 2015)
$350,000 – Drugstore sidewalk fall accident, hip fracture with surgery, filed in Philadelphia (May 2014)
$3 million – Surgical infection, medical malpractice case in Philadelphia (January 2014)
$1 million – DUI accident, bar alcohol liability & medical malpractice case in Philadelphia (January 2014)
$1 million – Nail gun accident where nail gun discharged sideways resulting in a nail hitting user’s eye
$925,000 – Nail gun defect case
$2.75 million – Dock worker run over by a forklift at a cruise ship terminal
$4 million – Construction worker suffered serious brain injury after falling 20 feet due to lack of required fall protection
$1.1 million – Against a fraternity for negligently serving alcohol which resulted in a stabbing assault of two frat party attendees
Seven Figure Recovery – Man killed when his car fell off of a 3 floor parking garage due to a defective vehicle barrier protection system
Six Figure Recovery – Defective punch press machinery work accident case.
Six Figure Recovery – Against an all girls religious high school for negligent supervision of a teacher who engaged in sexual conduct with a student on school property
Six Figure Recovery – Man died following improper diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis
Six Figure Recovery – 71 year old man died due to an undiagnosed e-coli infection

Workplace and Construction Accident Case Results

$101 million – The collapse of a parking garage at the Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City that injured over 30 construction workers on the job and killed 4 men working on the project (largest construction accident settlement in U.S. history).
$13 million – The collapse of the Philadelphia Kimmel Center during its construction
$13 million – A workplace accident resulting in an above the knee amputation of the plaintiff’s right leg
$12 million – A construction accident on the job involving union roofer who fell from a roof because there was no fall protection and suffered quadriplegia
$8.5 million – A construction accident on the job involving union roofer who was working without fall protection and fell from a roof resulting in permanent paraplegic injury
$5 million – A construction accident on the job where union laborer was killed while working on the fourth floor of a building because there was no fall protection
$4 million – Construction worker suffered serious brain injury after falling 20 feet due to lack of required fall protection
$2.5 million – An on the job injury where an union carpenter fell on a construction site and was injured because of defective fall protection equipment
$2.5 million – A workplace accident on the job resulting in below-the-knee amputation of the plaintiff’s right leg
$2 million – An inadvertent release of dangerous chemicals at a local oil company, causing on the job burn and inhalation injuries to three union carpenters
$1.5 million – Injuries incurred in a workplace accident on the job where plaintiff sustained severe burn injuries as a result of an electrical explosion
$1 million – Injuries on the job incurred by a factory supervisor when his hand was crushed at work due to faulty equipment
$1 million – The on the job injury to a union carpenter who fell through an interior mobile scaffold while at work, suffering bilateral calcaneal fractures

Crime Victims/Sex Abuse Case Results

Six Figure Recovery – Molestation case against sitting state court judge who admitted to the abuse, resigned from the bench and was then disbarred
Six Figure Recovery – Student sexually harassed and assaulted by high school teacher
Six Figure Recovery – Against an all girls religious high school for negligent supervision of a teacher who engaged in sexual conduct with a student on school property

Wrongful Death Case Results

$2.5 million – Wrongful death by electrocution of a union electrician on the job, when electrical switchgear malfunctioned
$1.5 million – Wrongful death of a tow truck driver who died on the job when he was accidentally run over by his own tow truck
Seven Figure Recovery – Wrongful death of a union carpenter who died on the job after falling through temporary decking at a local bridge

Defective Premises Case Results

$2.75 million – Slip and fall case where client suffered serious personal injuries from a fall
$1.1 million – Against a fraternity for negligently serving alcohol which resulted in a stabbing assault of two frat party attendees
Seven Figure Recovery – Man who was killed when his car fell off of a 3 floor parking garage due to defective vehicle barrier protection system
Six Figure Recovery – A horrific incident where a woman was killed after her apartment complex was demolished while she remained in the building
Six Figure Recovery – A woman violently attacked by bar security personnel without provocation
Six Figure Recovery – Fatal shooting of a tenant at an apartment complex
Six Figure Recovery – Slip and fall at an airport

Car Accident Case Results

$9 million – A car crash resulting in a passenger suffering permanent quadriplegic injuries
$4.4 million – A car crash where the motor vehicle accident resulted in two passengers being killed and another injured, after a restaurant served too much alcohol to the driver of their vehicle
$2 million – A tragic case where a man suffered serious permanent injuries when a tree fell onto his car while he was driving along a public road in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
$1 million – A car accident resulting in serious personal injuries to the plaintiff

Medical Malpractice Case Results

Six Figure Recovery – Man died following improper diagnosis and treatment of endocarditis
Six figure Recovery – 71 year old man died due to an undiagnosed e-coli infection
Six Figure Recovery – negligent transection of common hepatic duct during surgery
Six Figure Recovery – negligent care of elderly man resulting in hip fractures after fall from hospital bed

Our personal injury attorneys serve accident victims in the following areas: Allegheny County, PA; Berks County, PA; Bucks County, PA; Chester County, PA; Delaware County, PA; Lehigh County, PA; Montgomery County, PA; Northampton County, PA: Philadelphia County, PA; Atlantic County, NJ; Burlington County, NJ; Camden County, NJ; Cumberland County, NJ; Gloucester County, NJ; Salem County, NJ; New Castle County, DE; Kent County, DE; Atlantic City, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; Newark, NJ; Doylestown, PA; Media, PA; West Chester, PA; Norristown, PA; Camden, NJ; Wilmington, DE; Newark, DE; Georgetown, DE; and New Castle, DE. They also work with lawyers nationwide and can obtain special admission in other states on a case by case basis.

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