Kline & Specter - Major Victories

Philadelphia jury verdict in boy’s drowning death at camp. (Slaughter)

Settlement: Injuries to infant due to inadequate monitoring of mother after car accident.

Settlement: Patient not advised of test result showing heart defect dies of heart attack.

Settlement: Brain injury in failure to properly monitor and treat Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

Settlement with Piazza Nissan of Ardmore, Pa., for the family of an 89-year-old woman who was struck and killed while on sidewalk by a company driver as his vehicle exited the dealership.

Settlement: Delay in delivery results in severe brain damage, cerebral palsy and epilepsy.

Settlement for woman brain damaged by hospital error. (McDowell)

Philadelphia jury verdict for injured worker. (Vassallo)

Settlement with auto dealership where an employee drove into an elderly woman on the sidewalk, killing her.

Settlement: Delay in birth delivery results in ischemic encephalopathy.

Settlement: Misplaced IV moves air embolus into child’s lungs, causing cardiac arrest

Settlement: Brain damage suffered as a result of poor care during labor and delivery.

Settlement: Patient’s heart punctured during placement of port, results in heart attack.

Settlement: Patient’s heart punctured during placement of port, results in heart attack.

Settlement: Woman develops pneumonia after surgery, suffers quadriplegic injuries.

Settlement: Negligence leads to catastrophic and permanent birth injuries to twins.

Settlement for boy who suffered brain damage after tonsil surgery. Hospital also pledged to make safety changes. (Bates)

Settlement of a case against a medical imaging company that evaded New York state and city taxes.

Settlement: Premature baby in hospital three weeks contracts bacterial meningitis.

Settlement: Botched CV line placement, delayed diagnosis leads to leg amputations.

Settlement: Delay in treating thoracic aortic dissection brings cardiac arrest, brain injury.

Settlement: Botched delivery by midwife results in baby’s severe brain injury.

Settlement: Patient suffers respiratory distress after hip replacement, suffers brain injury.

Settlement: Misdiagnosis leads to prolonged hypoglycemia, woman’s death.

Settlement: Delay in treating thoracic aortic dissection brings cardiac arrest, brain injury.

Settlement: Child with history of leukemia dies of acute bleeding due to over-transfusion.

Settlement: Failure to relieve a spinal abscess causing permanent paraplegia.

Settlement: Indiana County verdict for baby injured during delivery (Chichy)

Settlement: Mismanagement of blood pressure during anesthesia causes stroke.

Settlement for a woman who suffered respiratory failure and septic shock after hospital staff failed to recognize an infection after a Caesarean delivery.

Settlement: Woman suffers stroke following a transcatheter closure procedure.

NJ verdict for woman given wrong anti-malaria drug for trip.

Settlement: Medical malpractice leading to cardiac arrest following car accident.

Settlement: Early withdrawal of antibiotics leads to infection, hydrocephalus.

Settlement: Injection causes hematoma on spine, paralysis.

Verdict for parents of murdered parking lot attendant (Palmer)

Settlement: Spine and brain trauma to psychiatric patient who fell in hospital.

Verdict against Presbyterian Children’s Village for twice placing a young girl in the home of a temporary foster family where she was sexually molested. (PCV) (read article)

Settlement: Delay in delivery causes severe hypoxic ischemic brain injury.

Settlement: Surgery results in sliver of bone pressing against spine, paralysis.