Settlements & Verdicts
Licensed in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Virginia, Georgia and Florida.
Attorneys at Messa Law have secured substantial recoveries for hundreds of clients in multiple practice areas. Click on any of the practice areas below to see a list of the firm’s most substantial settlements or verdicts. Call, toll-free, 1-877-MessaLaw (637-7252), or submit a free online inquiry form.
Medical Malpractice
– $120 Million recovery for plaintiffs injured due to spinal bone screws implanted into the spine.
– $23 Million recovery for a birth injury case resulting in cerebral palsy.
– $18.5 Million settlement for failure to diagnose and treat an infection a hospital emergency department resulting in amputations.
– $17 Million recovery for a child left with a brain injury due to obstetrical negligence.
– $16.5 Million jury verdict for failure to investigate a seven-year-old child’s surgically correctable underlying heart condition.
– $15.1 Million recovery for a child left with a brain injury due to obstetrical negligence.
– $12.8 Million recovery for quadruplets injured at birth due to negligent prenatal medical care.
– $12.26 Million verdict on behalf of a patient disabled due to an infection following spine surgery.
– $11.9 Million settlement for Pediatrician failure to diagnose and treat virus resulting in brain damage.
– $11.6 Million recovery for a child left with a brain injury due to prenatal malpractice.
– $10 Million award for medical malpractice upheld due to unnecessary surgery and implanting an unapproved medical device in a man’s spine.
– $9.75 Million settlement in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on behalf of a child who developed cerebral palsy due to a delay in delivery.
– $8.9 Million settlement on behalf of a child whose physician failed to diagnose her proper abdominal condition resulting in a severe loss of bowel.
– $8.8 Million recovery for a child left with a brain injury due to obstetrical negligence.
– $8.6 Million verdict for the family of a child who suffered severe brain damage because her delivery was inexplicably delayed.
– $8.5 Million recovery for the family of a 30-year-old mother who died following the birth of her daughter because of negligent treatment of a postpartum hemorrhage.
– $8.4 Million Verdict federal court verdict to a 40-year-old mother of three young children for failure to timely treat her in the emergency room which left her paralyzed and brain injured.
– $8 Million medical malpractice recovery for spine surgery resulting in neurological injury.
– $7 Million medical malpractice settlement for a birth injury. A child was injured at birth due to failure to diagnose and treat placental abruption.
– $7 Million Recovery for the family of a young man who was prematurely discharged from the hospital after suffering a gunshot resulting in his death.
– $6.8 Million settlement in a New Jersey birth injury case involving cerebral palsy and the failure to timely deliver a baby. This achievement held the distinction of being the largest medical malpractice settlement in the entire state for 2017, as reported by TopVerdict.com.
– $6.6 Million jury verdict for a man who was paralyzed after being prematurely discharged with pain medication and a withdrawal diagnosis prior to receiving test results due to history of drug abuse, he became paralyzed due to an untreated infection
– $6.5 Million settlement for a 46-year-old woman after her doctor negligently performed an unnecessary procedure which resulted in a massive subarachnoid hemorrhage and irreversible brain damage.
– $6.4 Million settlement for a child left with a brain injury due to negligent labor/delivery medical care.
– $6 Million settlement against two hospitals, three physicians, and three nurses for a 48-year-old woman who died prematurely because of a delay in diagnosis and treatment of a rare blood disorder, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (“TTP”).
– $6 Million settlement for cardiac defect (tetralogy of fallot) in an infant which went undiagnosed and untreated, resulting in the infant’s death.
– $6 Million Recovery for a patient after a doctor failed to diagnose and treat a brain bleed.
– $5.8 Million jury verdict in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas involving the death of a woman who developed uterine cancer after her physicians failed to perform a necessary hysterectomy related to her uterine fibroids.
– $5.5 Million recovery for a nine-year-old girl whose physicians at two leading hospitals failed to diagnose her spinal cord tumor until it caused paralysis.
– $5 Million recovery in the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas on behalf of a child who lost vision in one eye due to the failure of an emergency medicine provider to diagnose corneal laceration.
– $5 Million settlement related to the failure to timely diagnose and treat stroke-related symptoms in an elderly woman.
– $5 Million settlement on behalf of a man who died of a cardiac arrest after his specialist physician failed to perform the appropriate diagnostic work-up in response to his active symptoms.
– $5 Million recovery for a 58-year-old woman rendered a paraplegic after the hospital emergency room staff failed to timely diagnose a spinal fracture.
– $5 Million settlement on behalf of a 69-year-old man who suffered a brain herniation and permanent brain damage after emergency room doctors performed a lumbar puncture without first performing a CT scan.
– $5 Million for the Estate of a 46-year-old woman who died because her doctors failed to diagnose and monitor a benign abdominal cyst, which over the course of the next several years became cancerous, spread, and killed her.
– $4.7 Million medical malpractice settlement when a hospital neglected to diagnose cancer resulting in death of a patient.
– $4.2 Million verdict for an elderly woman whose infection went untreated after a partial leg amputation resulting in the loss of the rest of her leg.
– $4.1 Million Verdict for a child who suffered a diminished vision in one eye because of botched eyelid surgery.
– $4.05 Million settlement for the family of a child who suffered severe brain damage because of post-delivery neglect by the hospital staff.
– $4 Million for the Estate of a 37-year-old woman who died because her doctor failed to properly work up and diagnose the cause of her severe, persistent headaches resulting in brain injury and death.
– $3.77 million recovery for the family of a 45-year-old woman who died because her doctors failed to work up and diagnose the cause of her severe back pain, resulting in spinal cord trauma, paralysis, need to live in a nursing home, and then death due to skin ulcers.
– $3.3 Million recovery for a young boy who suffered severe vision loss because of his doctors’ failure to recognize that his skull was not growing normally.
– $3.1M Partial Recovery for an emergency department’s failure to treat stroke despite multiple known risk factors and warnings leading a client to develop severe and potentially permanent injuries.
– $3.1 million medical malpractice settlement for Pennsylvania woman who developed neuropathic injuries after spine surgery.
– $3 Million settlement on behalf of the Estates of a young woman and her unborn child due to physicians’ failure to diagnose and treat an abdominal bleed that led to their untimely death
– $3 Million settlement related to the failure of emergency medicine providers to properly treat an asthmatic child leading to his death.
– $3 Million recovery in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, stemming from the failure to timely diagnose a spinal abscess.
– $3 Million settlement for a man who suffered irreversible and disabling brain damage due to the emergence of a massive brain bleed that could have been prevented if his symptoms were noted by trauma center medical staff.
– $3 Million settlement on behalf of a deceased mother of two after doctors failed to diagnose and treat an epidural abscess that resulted in sepsis.
– $3 million recovery in a nursing facility case for the abuse and neglect of a bed-bound woman.
– $2.5 Million Recovery for the family of an ER patient who died due to failure to diagnose trauma to the heart.
– $2.5 Million settlement on behalf of a patient who suffered due to failure to timely diagnose rectal cancer.
– $2.5 Million Recovery for the family of an elderly woman who died from an injury that occurred during an endoscopy.
– $2.5 Million settlement for the family of a man who suffered severe anoxic brain injury while anesthesia was being administered during spinal surgery he remained in a vegetative state until his untimely death three months later.
– $2.4 Million for the Estate of a 50-year-old man who died because his doctors failed to work up and diagnose his severe allergy condition over a period of months, resulting in his tongue suddenly swelling, blocking his airway and causing him to die.
– $2.3 Million recovery for a claim against doctors who failed to diagnose a brain aneurysm on an MRI which ruptured, causing the death of a young woman.
– $2.25 Million Recovery for a man who lost vision due to malpractice during a valve replacement.
– $2.2 Million settlement for a 54-year-old woman who underwent an elective knee replacement that resulted in an injured femoral artery. Doctor’s failure to recognize and treat the injury led to multiple surgeries that resulted in lost function in her foot.
– $2 million settlement for family of a woman who received a delayed cancer diagnosis leading to her death.
– $2 Million settlement on behalf of the Estate of a patient who died as the result of a bowel perforation sustained during a routine colonoscopy.
– $2 Million verdict for body part mutilation inside a hospital.
– $2 Million settlement for a young man who was left permanently impaired after a hospital’s failure to timely diagnose and treat an emerging fat embolism, causing preventable and catastrophic brain damage.
– $2 Million settlement on behalf of an 18-year-old mother of two who died after doctors failed to diagnose and treat an epidural abscess that resulted in sepsis.
– $2 Million Recovery for a 71-year-old man who suffered a lacerated blood vessel during an interventional cardiology procedure.
– Multi-Million Dollar confidential settlement for family of a woman who bled to death following an elective interventional radiology procedure performed in a major area hospital. Negligent technique in the procedure caused both the dislodgement of pacemakers leads causing cardiac arrest and multiple tears in major blood vessels.
– $1.9M Recovery for physicians’ failure to timely diagnose and treat their patient’s respiratory infection resulting in prolonged hospitalization.
– $1.8 Million Recovery for a man who had a health complication due to a defective product.
– $1.75 Million verdict for the death of a one-day-old child.
– $1.7 Million recovery for the family of a woman whose mole removal was never followed up with a pathology evaluation, resulting in delayed diagnosis and treatment of malignant melanoma and eventual metastasis and death.
– $1.6 Million settlement for a man who sustained permanent brain damage caused by a vitamin B1 deficiency, due to the of the medical providers’ failure to include necessary vitamin additives in the total parenteral nutrition which they ordered and supplied, resulting in loss of ability to work and walk.
– $1.6 Million settlement on behalf of a 62-year-old male client whose primary physicians deviated the standard of care by failing to advise him of his high-risk factors for Prostate Cancer and failing to provide helpful prostate cancer screening. These failures resulted in a diagnosis of Stage IV Prostate Cancer with metastasis that is now, tragically, inoperable and incurable.
– $1.6 Million Verdict for man injured during spinal surgery.
– $1.5 Million Recovery due to a doctor’s failure to diagnose Cauda Equina Syndrome resulting in neurological injury and loss of mobility.
– $1.5 Million verdict for man who underwent an unnecessary and negligently performed back surgery based on a misdiagnosis. The plaintiff suffered permanent injury to his back and lost the ability to work and support himself financially.
– $1.5 Million recovery for a diabetes patient who suffered partial loss of vision due to a failure to perform a comprehensive eye exam, including a retina examination.
– $1.5 Million settlement for a birth injury resulting from the negligent use of forceps on baby’s skull during delivery, resulting in neurological injury to baby’s arm and leg.
– $1.5 Million settlement for the family of a woman was admitted to the hospital and treated for hypertension and high blood pressure. Doctors failed to properly monitor her blood pressure as it dangerously decreased causing her to suffer a stroke. She suffered significant neurological injuries and other related injuries over the course of the next five years of her life and ultimately died.
– $1.4 Million jury verdict resulting from a failure to diagnose fatal cancer
– $1.3 Million jury verdict for a woman who sustained injuries after negligent gynecological surgery.
– $1.3 Million recovery in spine surgery case. A 38-year-old man underwent an unnecessary spinal fusion surgery, resulting in permanent injuries.
– $1.25 Million Recovery for failure to diagnose stroke resulting in delay in treatment.
– $1.25 Million total recovery for a client who suffered permanent damage to his heart because of his physician’s negligence in prescribing a dangerous dosage of Vioxx.
– $1.25 Million settlement in Buck’s County for neurological injury to a 54-year-old woman. Injury came due to failure to timely diagnose and treat stroke, resulting in hemiplegia.
– $1.2 Million recovery for 81-year-old woman with brain injury.
– $1 Million Recovery for death resulting from plastic surgery procedure.
– $1 Million Recovery for the family of an elderly woman who died as a result of anesthetic complications during routine cataract surgery.
– $1 Million Recovery for a 50-year-old woman who suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm because the radiologist misread her brain CT scan as normal.
– $1 Million settlement on behalf of the Estate of a 24-year-old man who died due to a failure to diagnose and treat pneumonia in the Emergency Department of a New Jersey hospital.
– $1 Million settlement against a prominent health system in Pennsylvania for the death of a woman who’s premature extubation post-surgery led to the patient’s tragic and untimely demise
– $1 Million recovery in malpractice claim involving surgery for Cushing’s disease and injury management of an epidural catheter. Negligence caused epidural hematoma, which doctors failed to recognize and treat, resulting in permanent neurological injury.
– $1 Million recovery for negligently performed spine surgery in Wilmington, Delaware resulting in permanent disability to a 50-year-old wood worker. The doctor performed the surgery in a negligent manner by misplacing two of the pedicle screws which resulted in a permanent neurological injury.
– $1 Million settlement for family of a man who passed away following an emergency rooms failure to diagnose a cardiac arrhythmia, electrical abnormality of the patient’s heart, caused by Lyme disease.
– Confidential Multi-Million dollar settlement against a prominent area hospital on behalf of a three-month old child who received negligent medical care that resulted in the amputation of her right hand and forearm. Chromosomal abnormalities caused several disabilities for the infant, including cognitive deficiencies and paraplegia. At the time of her hospitalization, however, despite her limitations, she had two working hands. After her hospitalization, the child had lost 50% of the only mobility she had.
– Confidential Seven-figure settlement in Philadelphia County for the family of a man who died after physicians failed to properly diagnose and provide treatment for an aortic aneurysm. The man sought treatment at a hospital two days before his death.
– Confidential Seven Figure Settlement for family of a man whose surgeon disregarded pathology findings of a small lung malignancy and removed the entire lung when removal of only a small area of malignancy was indicated, causing the patient to experience respiratory distress leading to four months of excruciating suffering and ultimately the patient’s untimely and unnecessary death.
– Confidential seven-figure settlement in a New Jersey wrongful death action on behalf of the Estate of a 72-year-old man who suffered a painful and preventable death after his doctor failed to test for, diagnose, and treat pneumonia.
– Confidential settlement secured for a 55-year-old woman who suffered irreversible blindness in her left eye as the result of her physician’s negligence during a routine cataract procedure.
– Maximum insurance policy limit for a 48-year-old licensed professional suffered an injury to his eye, a specialist failed to diagnose a retinal detachment, the Plaintiff underwent multiple eye surgeries which resulted in complications and scarring on his retina. His eye was deemed to have no useful vision and no depth perception, leaving him unable to resume his career due to his inability to perform the duties required of his position.
– Confidential six-figure settlement on behalf of the Estate of a 79-year-old woman who died after her physicians missed the symptoms and subsequently delayed treatment of a post-surgical bleed that led to her untimely death.
– $975,000 Recovery after a hospital failed to provide the correct dosage of medication to the patient.
– $965,000 podiatry settlement was obtained for a man who injured his ankle while at work. Doctors performed a negligent surgery where screws were misplaced in his ankle joint, causing the man serious and permanent injuries.
– $950,000 recovery in the case of a woman who suffered due to the misuse of oxygen required surgery and resulted medical complications and brain injury.
– $900,000 settlement in a Philadelphia County action for the family of a 58-year-old man who died due to a heart attack after attempting to seek treatment. His physician did not send him for emergency care despite his abnormal EKG and family history of heart disease.
– $875,000 settlement on behalf of a young girl who suffered birth injury from negligent delivery resulting in right brachial plexus injury, Erb’s palsy, and partial limb paralysis.
– $850,000 settlement for a woman who was left permanently disfigured after her doctors and nurses missed textbook signs of an allergic reaction.
– $800,000 settlement for failure to diagnose aortic dissection, resulting in cardiac arrest and sudden death.
– $750,000 verdict at trial for negligence in a spinal fusion surgery. Negligence resulted in neurological injury to snack cake route driver.
Many additional medical malpractice recoveries not listed.
Motor Vehicle Accidents
– $35 Million recovery for a man was ejected from the seat of a tractor trailer after brakes and seatbelt failed resulting in catastrophic injuries including quadriplegia.
– $30.55 Million settlement in a dram shop case where two people died in a crash caused by a drunk driver.
– $28.75 Million verdict for a child that was rendered paraplegic in a motor vehicle crash.
– $18 Million recovery when trucker caused a crash resulting in death of woman and infant.
– $15.8 Million Verdict for a pedestrian that suffered brain damage after being hit by a car.
– $15 Million verdict against multiple defendants in a truck crash case that resulted in the death of a four-year-old girl.
– $12.9 Million jury verdict against the Philadelphia Joint Board Workers’ Union on behalf of a man struck by a trade union vehicle operated by an intoxicated, non-union employee. HIGHEST MOTOR VEHICLE VERDICT IN PENNSYLVANIA IN 2019.
– $8 Million Recovery for a man who was hit by a paratransit vehicle.
– Confidential eight-figure settlement in Central Pennsylvania on behalf of a family grieving the loss of two loved ones in a horrific trucking crash. The crash was caused by a truck driver, leading to the tragic death of a young woman and infant.
– Confidential seven-figure settlement in a products liability and motor vehicle crash case resulting in the deaths of a mother and a teenage girl when a cement truck crashed into the family vehicle at an excessive rate of speed.
– Confidential seven-figure settlement on behalf of a 19-year-old girl who sustained paralyzing spinal cord injuries when a vehicle in which she was a back-seat passenger collided with a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction on a Northeast Pennsylvania interstate highway.
– $6.9 Million recovery from crash with tow truck resulting in brain injury to a 70-year-old man, requiring nursing home care.
– $6.9 Million settlement for a motorcyclist permanently injured in a collision.
– $6.9 Million Recovery for a man who was hit on a motorcycle by a work truck.
– $6.4 Million recovery for the family of a man killed in a tractor-trailer wreck.
– $5.4 Million Recovery for a woman who suffered a degloving injury after being hit by a garbage truck.
– $5.3 Million recovery in trucking crash with catastrophic injuries
– $5.2 Million motor vehicle crash settlement for a pedestrian rundown by a garbage truck.
– $4.8 Million recovery for the family of a man killed in a tractor-trailer wreck.
– $4.65 Million settlement with bus company Atlantic Express and a bus driver after a bus crash that caused a woman to sustain injuries, including traumatic brain injury, cervical spine herniations, injuries to her right shoulder, and the development of major depressive disorder. She cannot return to her studies or to her job and will require specialized therapies and medical treatments for the rest of her life.
– $4.5 Million Recovery for a man who was hit by a police SUV while driving an airport tug on the tarmac.
– $3.8 Million settlement for a Fortune 500 executive who was rendered completely disabled after being sideswiped while traveling on vacation.
– $3.5 Million settlement for a motor vehicle crash leaving a man with cervical spine injuries and herniations requiring back and neck surgery.
– $3.05 Million Recovery for the family of a pedestrian of a man who was hit and killed by a rideshare vehicle.
– $3 Million settlement for the victim of a crash caused by a distracted Verizon bucket-truck driver.
– $2.75 Million settlement for motorcycle crash involving 64-year-old man and Lex Electric work vehicle.
– $2.5 Million recovery for the family of a young girl killed as a passenger in a vehicle driven by her drunk friend.
– $2.5 Million Recovery for a man who was hit on a motorcycle by a work truck.
– $2 Million recovery for a woman who suffered a mild traumatic brain injury in motor vehicle collision.
– $1.875 Million settlement for a couple who sustained serious orthopedic injuries when their stopped car was rear ended by a speeding work van and propelled across traffic lanes until it crashed against a utility pole on the side of the road.
– $1.8 Million recovery for family of woman crushed to death by a motor vehicle
– $1.75 Million verdict in Camden County, NJ for a man who sustained permanent lumbar disc and nerve injuries due to a car crash.
– $1.5 Million settlement on behalf of our client who sustained several injuries after being struck on the driver side of his work vehicle by a landscaping dump truck that ran a red light.
– $1.5 Million recovery on behalf of the Estate of a 20-year-old woman who was killed after being run over in the street by a garbage truck.
– $1.325M for a newly engaged couple who were hit by a pizza delivery driver’s car while they were crossing the street, resulting in brain injury to the 27-year-old woman from which she largely recovered.
– $1.25 Million Recovery for a man who was hit and killed by a car.
– $1.2 Million Recovery for a man who suffered orthopedic injuries after being hit by an armored vehicle.
– $1.075 Million partial settlement involving a motor vehicle crash due to a shopping center’s negligence in Plymouth Meeting, PA.
– $1.05 Million settlement for a man who was hit by a paratransit bus making a sudden illegal left-hand turn while he was driving his motorcycle. The Plaintiff suffered significant severe and permanent injuries including multiple fractures.
– $1 Million Recovery for a man who was injured by a truck that was backing into a loading dock.
– $1 Million partial settlement involving a motor vehicle crash due to a shopping center’s negligence in Plymouth Meeting, PA. The owners and the property management company of the center failed to maintain proper landscaping and signage causing obstruction of vision for both drivers. The negligence caused a crash resulting in traumatic aortic dissection and multiple orthopedic fractures for the defendant.
– $1 Million settlement for a 55-year-old factory worker who was seriously injured when a Ford F-450 truck struck her while she was attempting to cross a four-lane highway at nighttime. Ms. Munoz-Garcia suffered several fractures, requiring multiple surgical procedures and amputation of two toes on her right foot.
– $885,000 settlement for a trucking crash, which resulted in multiple serious injuries. The plaintiff was driving on the New Jersey Turnpike at night, during a rainstorm and decided to pull onto the shoulder until the storm letup.
– $850,000 recovery in trucking crash case for a man hit by a tractor-trailer. He suffered from serious injuries, including severe orthopedic injuries.
– $850,000 settlement for the victim of a crash caused by a negligent GARDA armored truck driver.
– $800,000 settlement for a man who was involved in a workplace crash causing neck and back injuries, resulting in multiple surgeries.
– $775,000 verbal threshold verdict for the victim of a crash who sustained permanent and debilitating neck and back injuries after her car was blindsided at an intersection
– $750,000 verdict for plaintiff Julia Pison who sustained severe injuries, including a traumatic brain injury, after her car was “t-boned” by another vehicle.
– $750,000 jury verdict award to a 50-year-old woman in a single-car rollover resulting in a cervical disc injury.
– $750,000 recovery for a motor vehicle/truck crash where plaintiff suffered a fractured pelvis, fractured leg, and head trauma. The vehicle was hit on the right rear bumper, causing the vehicle to cross into oncoming traffic, where it was impacted again.
– $550,000 settlement for a man who was working as a machine operator on a rail gang when the brakes of the scrapper machine he was riding failed, collided with another machine, and derailed. Problems with the brakes on the equipment were reported before the crash. The plaintiff suffered a herniated disc in his neck and required spinal fusion surgery.
– $525,000 recovery for a man was rear-ended in New Jersey causing him to permanently lose his sense of smell.
Many Additional Motor Vehicle Recoveries Not Listed.
Products Liability
– $50 Million Verdict for Army veterans and Special Forces Green Beret, Luke Vilsmeyer, against 3M for its defective Combat Arms earplugs.
– $35.5 Million recovery for death of two children caused by a fire stemming from a defective heating appliance and smoke detectors that failed to sound an alarm.
– $35 Million settlement for a man was ejected from the seat of a tractor trailer after brakes and seatbelt failed resulting in catastrophic injuries including quadriplegia.
– $20 Million settlement for a client injured due to ingestion of the diet drug Fen-Phen.
– $13.175 Million award for two iron workers due to an explosion caused by a defective compressor.
– $12 Million Recovery for a man who suffered a degloving due to a defective conveyor belt at work.
– $12 Million settlement fire in a modular home resulting in death of a family.
– $11.2 Million fire product liability settlement resulting in death of children due to defective smoke detectors.
– $11.2 Million Settlement for damages and medical care after a woman’s arm was mangled in a machine.
– $9.15 Million settlement for fire caused by defective curling iron resulting in child’s death.
– $8 Million settlement after child was killed in a fire caused by a defective power strip.
– $7 Million settlement products liability case for a Union carpenter who sustained career-ending injuries after a defective pair of drywall stilts broke underneath him.
– $7 Million Recovery for the family of a man who died in a car crash due to a defective vehicle.
– $6.5 Million Recovery for a person who suffered injuries in a fire that resulted due to defective heater and electric system.
– $6.4 Million for a parent and child injured in a fire.
– Confidential eight-figure settlement against a leading smoke detector manufacturer and major mobile home company where a family of seven perished in a fire. The victims, including five children, suffered severe burns and smoke inhalation causing their deaths. The victims’ mobile home came equipped with smoke detectors with ionization technology failing to timely warn of the fire.
– Confidential seven-figure settlement in a products liability and motor vehicle accident case involving a cement truck resulting in the deaths of a mother and twin sister of a teenage girl.
– $5.75 Million Recovery for a man who was injured when he was hit in the face by a crane.
– $5.4 Million Recovery for a woman who suffered a degloving injury after being hit by a garbage truck.
– $5.25 Million settlement against a popular manufacturer and retailer of smoke detectors on behalf of the family of a grandmother and her toddler granddaughter who perished in a fire after four ionization smoke detectors failed to detect a growing fire in their two-story home.
– $4 Million Settlement for the family of an elderly woman who died due to a defective personal emergency response system.
– $3.7 Million for death of a nine-year-old boy due to a fire in an apartment building.
– $3.3 Million settlement for truck driver who sustained severe electrical burns when his dump trailer contacted uninsulated electric utility lines.
– $3.25 Million Recovery for a young girl who lost part of her pinky on a defective slide.
– $2.9 Million settlement for a burn injury action involving a 3-year-old girl who was burned by a defective electric potpourri pot. The Defendants were aware that the pot was defective and had injured other young children but continued to market and sell it.
– $2.75 Million Recovery for the family of a man who died from carbon monoxide poisoning due to a defective heater.
– $2.5 Million Recovery for a woman who suffered injuries due to the sudden acceleration of a defective vehicle.
– $2.225 Million settlement for an 11-year-old burn victim who sustained second and third degree burns after her nightgown ignited from a space heater.
– $2 Million settlement for a young man who lost his middle finger and injured his index finger on his dominant right hand due to a defective Ryobi table saw.
– $1.8 Million Recovery for a man who had a health complication due to a defective product.
– $1.55 Million total recovery for a laborer who suffered head injury due to defective scaffolding, which caused a crank handle to spin around and strike him in the face and forehead.
– $1.5 Million total settlement in defective smoke alarm that didn’t sound, resulting in death of a child in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
– $1.4 Million Recovery for a man who was permanently injured due to a defective electric wheelchair.
– Seven figure confidential settlement for a young, disabled, wheel-chair dependent man who was seriously injured when he was thrown from his powered wheelchair when the improperly installed seat belt failed.
– $750,000 jury verdict award to a 50-year-old woman in a single-car rollover resulting in a cervical disc injury.
– $700,000 jury verdict award to a construction worker against the manufacturer of a ladder which broke under his feet. This manufacturer had never previously lost a trial in its history.
– $680,000 total recovery for a laborer who suffered a badly fractured ankle while carrying a pipe on a hotel construction site.
– $650,000 total recovery for steam fitter who suffered burns on his arms while at work at U.S. Steel Fairless Hills Plant.
– $600,000 settlement for plaintiff who was ejected from his vehicle after a rollover, causing multiple orthopedic injuries and lacerations of the head.
– $550,000 settlement in an electric shock accident resulting in permanent nerve damage to arm and hand.
– Confidential settlement reached between plaintiff and a major American pharmaceutical company as part of a class-action consumer fraud case regarding the company’s concealment of material information about the substandard and defective nature of certain over-the-counter drugs, including their potentially harmful effects.
Many Additional Product Liabilities Recoveries Not Listed.
Work Injuries
– $35 Million settlement for a man was ejected from the seat of a tractor trailer after brakes and seatbelt failed resulting in catastrophic injuries including quadriplegia.
– $18.5 Million Recovery the family of a man who died from a worksite injury.
– $13.175 Million award for two iron workers due to an explosion caused by a defective compressor.
– $12 Million Recovery for a man who suffered a degloving due to a defective conveyor belt at work.
– $11.2 Million Settlement for damages and medical care after a woman’s arm was mangled in a machine.
– $8.265 Million settlement for a husband and father of two who suffered permanent paralysis (paraplegia) as the result of a two-story fall on a construction site.
– $7.2 Million settlement verdict for an electrocution case in Camden County.
– $7 Million products liability settlement for a Union carpenter who sustained career-ending injuries after a defective pair of drywall stilts broke underneath him.
– $5.4 Million Recovery for a woman who suffered a degloving injury after being hit by a garbage truck.
– $4.5 Million Recovery for a man who was hit by a police SUV while driving an airport tug on the tarmac.
– $3.3 Million settlement for truck driver who sustained severe electrical burns when his dump trailer contacted uninsulated electric utility lines.
– $3 Million jury verdict for a carpenter who sustained serious and permanent injuries after a temporary staircase on a construction site collapsed underneath him.
– $3 Million recovery for a defective product on a worksite causing physical and emotional injuries.
– $1.6 Million settlement for an ironworker injured in fall at construction site.
– $1.55 Million total recovery for laborer who suffered head injury due to defective scaffolding, which caused a crank handle to spin around and strike him in the face and forehead.
– $1.375 Million for a Chester County man injured on a work site when the operator of the lift of the work cage he was in slammed the cage causing Mr. Wilson’s left side to hit the left rail of the work cage resulting in injuries to his legs and back.
– $1 Million Recovery for a man who was injured by a truck that was backing into a loading dock.
– $1 Million settlement to a delivery truck driver, for injuries he suffered after his foot was run over by a forklift operator employed by Dream Well in 2012.
– $1 Million settlement on behalf of a client who sustained permanent physical and emotional injuries after falling through an unsecured temporary floor on an OSHA non-compliant construction site.
– $850,000 settlement on behalf of a man who fell through a warehouse roof on a job site where he was employed causing injuries that required multiple surgeries. The plaintiff’s employer and property manager has knowledge of the defective condition of the roof which resulted in the man’s fall and subsequent injuries.
– $840,000 construction injury settlement awarded to a house painter who sustained severe injuries including a concussion with post concussive syndrome and multiple fractures resulting in traumatic arthritis to the wrist, after falling nine feet through an unguarded hole on a job site, making him unable to work or support his family.
– $800,000 settlement for a man who was involved in a workplace accident, causing neck and back injuries, requiring multiple surgeries.
– $725,000 settlement for a man injured on a saw at work.
– $700,000 jury verdict awarded to a construction worker against the manufacturer of a ladder which broke under his feet. This manufacturer had never previously lost a trial in its history.
– $685,000 settlement for a construction fall involving the failure to remove dangerous snow and ice from a construction site.
– $680,000 total recovery for a laborer who suffered a badly fractured ankle while carrying a pipe on a hotel construction site.
– $650,000 total recovery for steam fitter who suffered burns on his arms while at work at U.S. Steel Fairless Hills Plant.
– $475,000 settlement for a carpenter who suffered injuries to his shoulder and back while at work, due to a failure to take steps to have proper fall protection at work.
Many Additional Work Injuries Recoveries Not Listed.
Truck Crashes
– $35 Million settlement for a man was ejected from the seat of a tractor trailer after brakes and seatbelt failed resulting in catastrophic injuries including quadriplegia.
– $18 Million recovery when trucker caused a crash resulting in death of woman and infant.
– $15 Million verdict against multiple defendants in a truck crash case that resulted in the death of a four-year-old girl.
– Confidential eight-figure settlement in Central PA on behalf of a family grieving the loss of young woman and infant in a horrific trucking crash.
– Confidential seven-figure settlement in a products liability and motor vehicle crash case involving a cement truck and concrete mixer resulting in the deaths of a mother and twin sister of a teenage girl.
– $6.9 Million recovery from accident with tow truck resulting in brain injury to a 70-year-old man, requiring nursing home care.
– $6.9 Million Recovery for a man who was hit on a motorcycle by a truck.
– $6.4 Million recovery for the family of a man killed in a tractor-trailer wreck.
– $5.4 Million Recovery for a woman who suffered a degloving injury after being hit by a garbage truck.
– $5.3 Million recovery in trucking crash with catastrophic injuries
– $5.2 Million motor vehicle accident settlement for a pedestrian rundown by a garbage truck.
– $4.8 Million recovery for the family of a man killed in a tractor-trailer wreck.
– $3.3 Million settlement for truck driver who sustained severe electrical burns when his dump trailer contacted uninsulated electric utility lines.
– $3 Million settlement for the victim of a crash caused by a distracted Verizon bucket-truck driver. The plaintiff, Ms. Pinkerton, suffered a mild traumatic brain injury and multiple herniated discs in her neck and back.
– $2.5 Million Recovery for a man who was hit on a motorcycle by a work truck.
– $1.5 Million settlement on behalf of our client who sustained several injuries after being struck on the driver side of his work vehicle by a landscaping dump truck that ran a red light.
– $1.5 Million recovery on behalf of the Estate of a 20-year-old woman who was killed after being run over in the street by a garbage truck.
– $1 Million Recovery for a man who was injured by a truck that was backing into a loading dock.
– $1 Million settlement for a 55-year-old factory worker who was seriously injured when a Ford F-450 truck struck her while she was attempting to cross a four-lane highway at nighttime. Ms. Munoz-Garcia suffered several fractures, requiring multiple surgical procedures and amputation of two toes on her right foot.
– $885,000 settlement for a trucking accident, which resulted in multiple serious injuries. The plaintiff was driving on the New Jersey Turnpike at night, during a rainstorm and decided to pull onto the shoulder until the storm letup.
– $850,000 recovery in trucking accident case for a man hit by a tractor-trailer. He suffered from serious injuries, including severe orthopedic injuries.
– $850,000 settlement for the victim of a crash caused by a negligent GARDA armored truck driver.
– $750,000 recovery for a motor vehicle/truck accident in Berks County, PA (Reading) where plaintiff suffered a fractured pelvis, fractured leg and head trauma. The vehicle was hit on the right rear bumper, causing the vehicle to cross into oncoming traffic, where it was impacted again.
– $475,000 settlement for a carpenter who suffered injuries to his shoulder and back while at work, due to a failure to take steps to have proper fall protection at work.
Many Additional Truck Crash Recoveries Not Listed.
Wrongful Death
– $235 Million total recovery for passengers injured and deceased in the 2015 Amtrak derailment in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia. Joseph Messa and Thomas Sweeney secured a significant portion of the total settlement for their client, a husband and father who was permanently injured due to the derailment.
– $35.5 Million recovery for death of two children caused by a fire stemming from a defective heating appliance and smoke detectors that failed to sound an alarm.
– $30.55 Million settlement in a dram shop case where two people died in a crash caused by a drunk driver.
– $18 Million recovery when trucker caused a crash resulting in death of woman and infant.
– $15 Million verdict against multiple defendants in a truck crash case that resulted in the death of a four-year-old girl.
– $11.2 Million fire product liability settlement resulting in death of children due to defective smoke detectors.
– $9.15 Million settlement for fire caused by defective curling iron resulting in child’s death.
– $8 Million settlement after child was killed in a fire caused by a defective power strip.
– Confidential eight-figure settlement against a leading smoke detector manufacturer and major mobile home company where a family of seven perished in a fire.
– Confidential Seven Figure Settlement for family of a man whose surgeon disregarded pathology findings of a small lung malignancy and removed the entire lung when removal of only a small area of malignancy was indicated, causing the patient to experience respiratory distress leading to four months of excruciating suffering and ultimately the patient’s untimely and unnecessary death.
– Confidential seven-figure settlement in a products liability and motor vehicle accident case resulting in the deaths of a mother and a teenage girl when a cement truck crashed into the family vehicle at an excessive rate of speed.
– Confidential seven-figure recovery in a rural county for the family of a teenage girl who was killed after the car she was riding in was struck by an oncoming train while the car drove through a railroad crossing that did not have crossing gates.
– Confidential seven-figure settlement in a NJ wrongful death action on behalf of the Estate of a 72-year-old man who suffered a painful and preventable death after his doctor failed to test for, diagnose, and treat pneumonia.
– $8.5 Million recovery for death of mother after delivery due to failure to treat post-delivery bleed.
– $8.5 Million settlement for the family of a seven-year-old girl who was killed in a fire caused by a defective curling iron that lacked proper safety precautions to prevent a fire from occurring. The curling iron was plugged into a defective power strip that lacked an industry standard fuse that would have disabled the power running to the curling iron in the event of a short.
– $7 Million Recovery for the family of a young man who was prematurely discharged from the hospital after suffering a gunshot resulting in his death.
– $6.4 Million recovery for the family of a man killed in a tractor-trailer wreck.
– $6 Million settlement against two hospitals, three physicians, and three nurses for a 48-year-old woman who died prematurely because of a delay in diagnosis and treatment of a rare blood disorder, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (“TTP”).
– $5.75 Million recovery for a wrongful death to a two-year-old girl died at a Philadelphia daycare center.
– $5 Million settlement in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas on behalf of a man who died of a cardiac arrest after his specialist physician failed to perform the appropriate diagnostic work-up in response to his active symptoms.
– $4.8 Million recovery for the family of a man killed in a tractor-trailer wreck.
– $4.7 Million wrongful death settlement when a hospital neglected to diagnose cancer resulting in death of a patient.
– $4 Million recovery after a restaurant continued serving a visibly intoxicated man, leading to his death.
– $4 Million for the Estate of a 37-year-old woman who died because her doctor failed to properly work up and diagnose the cause of her severe, persistent headaches resulting in brain injury and death.
– $3.77 million recovery for the family of a 45-year-old woman who died because her doctors failed to work up and diagnose the cause of her severe back pain, resulting in spinal cord trauma, paralysis, need to live in a nursing home, and then death due to skin ulcers.
– $3.7 Million for death of a nine-year-old boy as a result of a fire in an apartment building.
– $3.5 Million jury verdict in the Eastern District of PA on behalf of a widow whose husband tragically lost his life while performing repairs under a truck.
– $3 Million settlement in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas related to the failure of emergency medicine providers to properly treat an asthmatic child leading to his death.
– $3 Million settlement on behalf of the Estates of a young woman and her unborn child who died when a physician failed to diagnose and treat an abdominal bleed.
– $2.5 Million recovery for the family of a young girl killed as a passenger in a vehicle driven by her drunk friend.
– $2.3 Million recovery for a claim against doctors who failed to diagnose a brain aneurysm on an MRI which ruptured, causing the death of a young woman.
– $2 Million settlement on behalf of the Estate of a patient who died as the result of a bowel perforation sustained during a routine colonoscopy.
– $2 Million settlement for a medical malpractice case involving a mother of two who died after doctors failed to diagnose and treat an epidural abscess that resulted in sepsis.
– $2 million settlement for family of a woman who received a delayed cancer diagnosis leading to her death.
– Multi-Million Dollar confidential settlement for family of a woman who bled to death following an elective interventional radiology procedure performed in a major area hospital. Negligent technique in the procedure caused both the dislodgement of pacemakers leads causing cardiac arrest and multiple tears in major blood vessels.
– $1.9 Million settlement for the family of an underage man was killed in MV crash after being served alcohol.
– $1.75 Million verdict for the death of a one-day-old girl.
– $1.7 Million recovery for the family of a woman whose mole removal was never followed up with a pathology evaluation, resulting in delayed diagnosis and treatment of malignant melanoma and eventual metastasis and death.
– $1.5 Million recovery on behalf of the Estate of a 20-year-old woman who was killed after being run over in the street by a garbage truck.
– $1.5 Million total settlement for the untimely and tragic death of a child in Gloucester County, New Jersey after a defective smoke alarm failed to sound.
– $1 Million Recovery for death resulting from plastic surgery procedure.
– $1 Million settlement on behalf of the Estate of a 24-year-old man who died as a result of a failure to diagnose and treat a pneumonia in the Emergency Department of a NJ hospital.
– $1 Million settlement against a prominent health system in Pennsylvania for the death of a woman whose premature extubation post-surgery led to the patient’s tragic and untimely demise
– $900,000 settlement for a Philadelphia County wrongful death action on behalf of the family of a woman died due to hospital negligence.
– Confidential six-figure settlement on behalf of the Estate of a 79-year-old woman who died after her physicians missed the symptoms and subsequently delayed treatment of a post-surgical bleed that led to her untimely death.
Many Additional Wrongful Death Recoveries Not Listed.
Injuries to Children
– $35.5 Million recovery for death of two children caused by a fire stemming from a defective heating appliance and smoke detectors that failed to sound an alarm.
– $28.75 Million verdict for a child that was rendered a paraplegic in a motor vehicle accident.
– $23 Million birth injury case resulting in cerebral palsy.
– $18 Million recovery when trucker caused a crash resulting in death of woman and infant.
– $17 Million recovery for a child left with a brain injury due to obstetrical negligence.
– $16.5 Million jury verdict for failure to investigate a seven-year-old child’s surgically correctable underlying heart condition.
– $15.1 million recovery for a child left with a brain injury due to obstetrical negligence.
– $15 million verdict against multiple defendants in a truck crash case that resulted in the death of a four-year-old girl.
– $12.8 Million recovery for quadruplets injured at birth due to negligent prenatal medical care.
– $11.9 Million settlement for a young girl after her pediatrician failed to diagnose and treat the H1N1 flu virus (swine flu), causing her to require emergency hospital treatment. During her hospitalization, hospital staff failed to properly diagnose her respiratory failure and intubate her, resulting in significant oxygen deprivation which caused permanent brain damage.
– $11.6 Million recovery for a child left with a brain injury due to prenatal medical care.
– $11.2 Million fire product liability settlement resulting in death of children due to defective smoke detectors.
– $9.75 Million settlement in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on behalf of a child who developed cerebral palsy due to a delay in delivery.
– $9.15 Million settlement for fire caused by defective curling iron resulting in child’s death.
– $8.9 Million settlement on behalf of a child whose physician failed to diagnose her proper abdominal condition resulting in severe loss of bowel.
– $8.8 Million recovery for a child left with a brain injury due to obstetrical negligence.
– Confidential eight-figure against a leading smoke detector manufacturer and major mobile home company where a family of seven perished in a fire.
– Confidential multi-million-dollar settlement against a prominent area hospital on behalf of a three-month old child who received negligent medical care that resulted in the amputation of her right hand and forearm.
– $8.6 Million settlement verdict for a family of a child who suffered severe brain damage because her delivery was inexplicably delayed.
– $8.5 Million settlement for the family of a seven-year-old girl who was killed in a fire caused by a defective curling iron that lacked proper safety precautions to prevent a fire from occurring. The curling iron was plugged into a defective power strip that lacked an industry standard fuse that would have disabled the power running to the curling iron in the event of a short.
– $8 Million settlement after child was killed in a fire caused by a defective power strip.
– $6.8 Million settlement in a New Jersey birth injury case involving cerebral palsy and the failure to timely delivery a baby. This achievement held the distinction of being the largest medical malpractice settlement in the entire state for 2017, as reported by TopVerdict.com.
– $6.4 Million recovery for a child left with a brain injury due to negligent labor/delivery medical care.
– $6.4 Million for a parent and child injured in a fire.
– $6.1 Million settlement on behalf of a client who tragically lost her eye at just three years of age when her right eye was impaled by a protruding metal latch on a daycare playground fence.
– $6 Million settlement for cardiac defect (tetralogy of fallot) in an infant which went undiagnosed and untreated, resulting in death of the infant.
– $5.75 Million settlement for wrongful death of a two-year-old at a Philadelphia daycare center.
– $5.5 Million recovery for a nine-year-old girl whose physicians at two leading hospitals failed to diagnose her spinal cord tumor until it caused paralysis.
– $5 Million settlement in the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas on behalf of a child who lost vision in one eye due to the failure of an emergency medicine provider to diagnose corneal laceration.
– $4.5 Million Settlement for a minor who was sexually abused as a student by a staff member at her public school.
– $4.1 Million Verdict for a child who suffered diminished vision in one eye due to a botched eyelid surgery.
– $4.05 Million settlement for the family of a child who suffered severe brain damage due to post-delivery neglect by the hospital staff.
– $3.7 Million settlement for death of a nine-year-old boy due to a fire in an apartment building.
– $3.25 Million Recovery for a young girl who lost part of her pinky on a defective slide.
– $3 Million settlement in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas related to the failure of emergency medicine providers to properly treat an asthmatic child leading to his death.
– $3 Million recovery for a young boy who suffered severe vision loss due to his doctors’ failure to recognize that his skull was not growing normally.
– $3 Million Settlement after a child is struck by a vehicle while crossing the street.
– $2.9 Million settlement for a burn injury action involving a 3-year-old girl who was burned by a defective electric potpourri pot. The Defendants were aware that the pot was defective and had injured other young children but continued to market and sell it.
– $2.225 Million settlement for 11-year-old burn victim who sustained second and third degree burns after her nightgown ignited from a space heater.
– $1.5 Million recovery for birth trauma. Negligent use of forceps on baby’s skull during delivery, resulting in neurological injury to baby’s arm and leg.
– $1.29 Million settlement for the father of a young autistic man who was killed by police after being left unattended at a shopping mall. The young man was brought to the mall by an employee of a facility that was responsible for his oversight 24 hours a day.
– $1.05 Million settlement for a minor in a New Jersey dog bite case.
– Confidential seven figure settlement for a child who lost part of their pinky.
– $568,375 jury verdict on behalf of a 17-month-old boy who suffered disfiguring injuries from a dog-bite on the patio of the American Sardine Bar at 18th and Federal Streets in the Point Breeze section of Philadelphia.
– Confidential policy-limit settlement on behalf of a nine-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted in a Philadelphia home day care center. The child was assaulted when her day care provider left the center and did not provide appropriate and qualified adult supervision to care for the children.
Many Additional Injuries to Children Recoveries Not Listed.
Premises Liability
– $6.1 Million settlement for a little girl who lost her right eye after it was impaled by a gate-latch in disrepair at daycare.
– $5 Million Recovery for an elderly woman who slipped and fell in an airport resulting in a traumatic brain injury.
– $5 Million settlement for a woman who suffered a traumatic brain injury at the age of 41 when she slipped and fell on ice leading from the parking lot to her apartment.
– $4 Million jury verdict in Atlantic County, NJ, related to a slip-and-fall incident resulting in a severe ankle injury.
– $2.5 Million verdict against Big Boulder Ski Resort on behalf of an injured snowboarder who sustained a serious leg injury after skiing down an improperly marked closed trail.
– $1.5 Million slip and fall settlement for a 76-year-old nurse practitioner who was seriously injured when she slipped and fell on an ice patch in front of a nursing home on her way to work, she experienced numerous complications necessitating additional surgeries, hospitalizations, and rehabilitation.
– $1.2 Million recovery for 81-year-old Woman with brain injury due to an injury at Philadelphia International Airport.
– $1.075 Million partial settlement involving a motor vehicle accident due to a shopping center’s negligence in Plymouth Meeting, PA.
– $954,000 jury verdict for a man who slipped and fell on ice on a condominium sidewalk where his family resides.
– $750,000 settlement for a hotel employee who was rendered disabled while falling into a hidden construction ditch in the employer’s parking lot.
– $550,000 total recovery for man whose foot was badly fractured in piece of gym equipment.
– $500,000 premises liability/slip and fall settlement for a woman who fell at a shopping center job site.
Many Additional Premises Liability Recoveries Not Listed.
Fires, Burns, Explosions
– $35.5 Million recovery for death of two children caused by a fire stemming from a defective heating appliance and smoke detectors that failed to sound an alarm.
– $13.175 Million award for two iron workers due to an explosion caused by a defective compressor.
– $12 Million settlement fire in a modular home resulting in death of a family.
– $11.2 Million fire product liability settlement resulting in death of children due to defective smoke detectors.
– $9.15 Million settlement for fire caused by defective curling iron resulting in child’s death.
– $8 Million settlement after child was killed in a fire caused by a defective power strip.
– $6.5 Million Recovery for a person who suffered injuries in a fire that resulted due to defective heater and electric system.
– $6.4 Million Recovery after children and adults were injured in an apartment fire.
– Confidential eight-figure against a leading smoke detector manufacturer and major mobile home company where a family of seven perished in a fire.
– $5.25 Million settlement against a popular manufacturer and retailer of smoke detectors on behalf of the family of a grandmother and her toddler granddaughter who perished in a fire after four ionization smoke detectors failed to detect a growing fire in their two-story home.
– $4 Million Settlement for the family of an elderly woman who died due to a defective personal emergency response system.
– $3.7 Million for death of a nine-year-old boy due to a fire in an apartment building.
– $2.9 Million settlement for a burn injury action involving a 3-year-old girl who was burned by a defective electric potpourri pot. The Defendants were aware that the pot was defective and had injured other young children but continued to market and sell it.
– $2.225 Million settlement for 11-year-old burn victim who sustained second and third degree burns after her nightgown ignited from a space heater.
– $1.5 Million total settlement in defective smoke alarm that didn’t sound, resulting in death of a child in Gloucester County, NJ.
– $1.4 Million for a company whose business equipment, inventory, tools and personal possessions as well as a portion of the property UPA was leasing was destroyed in a fire.
– $1 Million recovery for faulty smoke detectors resulting in the death of a child in Camden County, NJ.
– $550,000 settlement in an electric shock accident resulting in permanent nerve damage to arm and hand.
Many Additional Fires, Burns, and Explosions Recoveries Not Listed.
Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Injuries
– $120 Million total settlement for plaintiffs injured due to implantation of spinal bone screws into the spine during spinal fusion procedures. AcroMed marketed the orthopedic bone screws to alleviate back pain, but thousands of patients claimed that the screws exacerbated the pain, often breaking after they were implanted in the patients’ spines.
– $20 Million total settlement for clients injured due to ingestion of the diet drug Fen-Phen.
– $10.9 Million verdict for a woman who was taking Topamax when she became pregnant and whose son underwent four surgeries after birth to correct his cleft lip that resulted from the medication. The verdicts are the first two of more than 130 cases filed against Janssen Pharmaceuticals in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
– $4.02 Million verdict for a woman who was taking Topamax when she became pregnant and whose son underwent four surgeries after birth to correct his cleft lip that resulted from the medication.
– $1.8 Million Recovery for a man who had a health complication due to a defective product.
– $1.25 Million total recovery for a client who suffered permanent damage to his heart due to his physician’s negligence in prescribing a dangerous dosage of Vioxx.
– $1 Million recovery for damage to the heart valve of a New Jersey woman from the ingestion of diet drugs/Fen-Phen.
– Confidential settlement reached between plaintiff and a major American pharmaceutical company as part of a class action consumer fraud case relating the company’s concealment of material information about the substandard and defective nature of certain over-the-counter medications, including their potentially harmful effects.
– Hundreds of Millions recovered for multiple medical devices and pharmaceutical cases including orthopedic spine, hip, and knee implants, vioxx, paxil, hernia mesh, vaginal mesh, roundup, fen-phen, and others
– Significant outcomes in mass tort litigation include:
– $1.1 billion global settlement in the Philips CPAP litigation
– $1 billion+ aggregate settlement in the Bard hernia mesh litigation
– These resolutions reflect nationwide litigation outcomes involving all eligible plaintiffs across participating firms.
Many Additional Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Injuries Recoveries Not Listed.
Railroad/F.E.L.A.
– $235 Million total recovery for passengers injured and deceased in the 2015 Amtrak derailment in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia. Joseph Messa and Thomas Sweeney secured a significant portion of the total settlement for their client, a husband and father who was permanently injured due to the derailment.
– Confidential seven-figure recovery in a rural county in North Central PA for the family of a teenage girl who was killed after the car she was riding in was struck by an oncoming train while the car drove through a railroad crossing that did not have crossing gates.
– $2.5 Million Recovery for a girl who was injured in a train derailment.
– $1.5 Million settlement for the employee of a rail company who sustained serious and permanent injuries to his knee due to the company’s failure to provide a safe workplace.
– Confidential seven-figure settlement in a Florence, South Carolina train derailment case.
– $1.1 Million settlement for the employee of a major public transportation system resulting from an injury caused by unsafe and inadequate working conditions.
– Confidential seven-figure settlement for persons injured by the release of vinyl chloride caused by CSX derailment in Paulsboro, NJ.
– $625,000 settlement in an F.E.L.A. action on behalf of a major rail system employee who sustained permanent injuries to his foot after being ordered to operate equipment without proper training.
– $550,000 F.E.L.A. recovery for James Carter, a CSX employee who was injured on the job after brake failure on a negligently maintained “scrap loader” (on which Mr. Carter was a passenger) collided with a Grinder, causing permanent injury to Mr. Carter’s neck and spine.
Many Additional Railroad/F.E.L.A. Recoveries Not Listed.
Nursing Home Abuse
– $3.77 Million recovery for the family of a 45-year-old woman who died because her doctors failed to work up and diagnose the cause of her severe back pain, resulting in spinal cord trauma, paralysis, need to live in a nursing home, and then death due to skin ulcers.
– $3 Million recovery in a nursing facility case for the abuse and neglect of a bed-bound woman.
– $620,000 settlement with two defendants for a 78-year-old woman who was placed in a nursing home after an injury at home that required surgery. While in rehab, caregivers failed to both monitor skin conditions and routinely re-position the patient, which led to the formation of two serious pressure ulcers (bedsores). Infection in the open wounds led to a urinary tract infection, sepsis, and stroke.
– Confidential six-figure settlement for the family of an 89-year-old man who died from sepsis that resulted from an infection in a pressure ulcer (bedsore) he acquired while rehabilitating at a nursing home
Many Additional Nursing Home Abuse Injuries Recoveries Not Listed.
Crime Victim and Sexual Assault Cases
– $4.5 Million Settlement for a minor who was sexually abused as a student by a staff member at her public school.
– Confidential multi-million-dollar settlement for a new jersey man who was shot and killed at a housing complex.
– $1.3 Million settlement for the assault of a building occupant due to negligent security services provided by a property management company and security provider. This case was settled, prior to trial, during a non-binding mediation.
– $1.02 Million Verdict on behalf of two adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse in unanimous jury verdict.
– $675,000 settlement for a Philadelphia County man who sustained physical and psychological injuries due to being shot while working at a retail store. The store failed to provide adequate security even though the attack was foreseeable due to prior threats made by the man’s assailant.
Alcohol Related Injuries
– $30.55 Million settlement in a dram shop case where two people died in a crash caused by a drunk driver.
– $4 Million Dram Shop Settlement when a restaurant continued serving a visibly intoxicated man.
– $2.5 Million recovery for the family of a young girl killed as a passenger in a vehicle driven by her drunk friend.
– $1.9 Million settlement for the family of an underage man killed in a motor vehicle accident after he and his friends were served at a bar and then left intoxicated.
– $853,000 settlement for a Buck’s County woman who sustained permanent injuries as the result of a car accident involving a drunk driver who was over-served at a Levittown, PA pub and allowed to leave in her own vehicle.
– $625,000 settlement in Camden County, NJ, for a man who was struck by a drunk driver who was a patron at a bar where she was visibly intoxicated and continued to be served.
– $561,000 verdict in Gloucester County, NJ for the family of a man who was involved in a motor vehicle accident after being served alcohol at an excessive level while a patron at the Defendant’s bar.
Many Additional Alcohol Related Injuries Recoveries Not Listed.
Dog-Bite Injuries
– $1.05 Million dog-bite settlement on behalf of a minor in New Jersey.
– $568,375 jury verdict on behalf of a 17-month-old boy who suffered disfiguring injuries from a dog-bite on the patio of bar and restaurant.
Mass Tort, Class Action, & Multi-District Litigation
– $235 Million total recovery for passengers injured and deceased in the 2015 Amtrak derailment in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia.
– $120 Million total settlement for plaintiffs injured due to implantation of spinal bone screws into the spine during spinal fusion procedures. AcroMed marketed the orthopedic bone screws to alleviate back pain, but thousands of patients claimed that the screws exacerbated the pain, often breaking after they were implanted in the patients’ spines.
– $50 Million Verdict awarded to Army veteran and Special Forces Green Beret, against 3M for its defective Cobat Arms earplugs.
– $20 Million total settlement for clients injured due to ingestion of the diet drug Fen-Phen.
– $10.9 Million verdict for a woman who was taking Topamax when she became pregnant and whose son underwent four surgeries after birth to correct his cleft lip that resulted from the medication. The verdicts are the first two of more than 130 cases filed against Janssen Pharmaceuticals in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
– $4.02 Million verdict for a woman who was taking Topamax when she became pregnant and whose son underwent four surgeries after birth to correct his cleft lip that resulted from the medication.
– Confidential settlement reached between plaintiff and a major American pharmaceutical company as part of a class action consumer fraud case relating the company’s concealment of material information about the substandard and defective nature of certain over-the-counter medications, including their potentially harmful effects.
– Hundreds of Millions recovered for multiple medical devices and pharmaceutical cases including orthopedic spine, hip, and knee implants, vioxx, paxil, hernia mesh, vaginal mesh, roundup, fen-phen, and others
– Significant outcomes in mass tort litigation include:
– $6 billion global settlement in the 3M Combat Arms Earplug litigation
– $1.1 billion global settlement in the Philips CPAP litigation
– $1 billion+ aggregate settlement in the Bard hernia mesh litigation
– These resolutions reflect nationwide litigation outcomes involving all eligible plaintiffs across participating firms.
Toxic Substance Injury
– $3.75 Million settlement in a toxic tort case.
– $750,000 recovery in chemical exposure case resulting in brain cancer.
Consumer Rights
– Confidential settlement reached between plaintiff and a major American pharmaceutical company as part of a class-action consumer fraud case regarding the company’s concealment of material information about the substandard and defective nature of certain over-the-counter drugs, including their potentially harmful effects.
Wage & Hour
– $5 Million recovery in Harper v. C.R. England on behalf of workers who weren’t paid wages for time spent in furtherance of their duties.
– $3.45 Million settlement in Estes v. Pam Transport, Inc. on behalf of employees who are owed unpaid wages.
– $3.3 Million settlement in Gudmundson v. Stevens Transport, Inc. on behalf of employees who are owed unpaid wages.
– $2.2 Million settlement in Salinas v. US Express, Inc. on behalf of employees owed unpaid wages.
– $2 Million settlement in a Fair Labor Standards Act case alleging Tennessee trucking company, Western Express, did not properly pay thousands of drivers for time spent on orientation and training.
– $825,000 verdict in Nebraska in Philip Petrone, et al. v, Werner Enterprise for failure to pay truckers for time that they were required to be with truck and cargo but not driving.
Many Additional Wage & Hour Recoveries Not Listed.