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Personal injuries occur every minute across the United States due to a variety of causes - medical malpractice, auto accidents, defective products, unsafe workplaces, hazardous premises, crime.

There are more than six million auto accidents alone each year, resulting in nearly three million injuries and roughly 40,000 deaths. Errors by doctors, nurses and other health care personnel cause an estimated 44,000 to 120,000 deaths annually, or one fatality every five to 12 minutes.

Very often, personal injury is not the victim's fault. In many cases, negligence is the cause of personal injury, and another person, product or place may be liable. If you or a loved one suffered a serious injury or death as the result of negligence or carelessness or because of a defective product or dangerous location, you may want to contact a personal injury attorney.

Kline & Specter, P.C., is among the nation's leading personal injury law firms. With some 30 highly skilled attorneys, several of whom are also experienced doctors, the Philadelphia-based law firm has won some of the largest courtroom verdicts and settlements in the Philadelphia-New Jersey-Delaware region and nationwide.

These include: a $153 million verdict against Ford Motor Co. in a case involving a defective brake and the death of a small boy; a $51 million verdict against the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in a case in which a subway escalator tore off a child's foot; a $49 million verdict for a young man brain damaged as a result of medical error; a $40.5 million settlement resulting from an Montgomery County apartment fire; a $36.4 million settlement for a worker killed in a Delaware refinery explosion; a $33.1 million verdict in a breast cancer diagnosis case; a $29.6 million settlement in the Philadelphia Pier 34 collapse that claimed three lives. (For more, see Major Victories.)

For a free evaluation of your case, contact a personal injury lawyer today.

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• Chicago officials agree to pay $50 million toward $100 million personal injury settlement over a building fire. Six people died in the tragedy marred by failures in communication between emergency responders who had ordered people trying to leave the building back into stairwells that locked behind them. (Full story)
  
  
• Hempstead, N.Y., officials approve a $3-million personal injury settlement with the family of a landscaper killed at a town landfill.(Full story)
  
  
• New York City will pay a $6.5 million personal injury settlement to a man who lost a leg in a 2003 ferry crash.(Full story)
  
  
• Two California women left quadriplegic after being struck by a driver while jogging in a bike lane on Pacific Coast Highway reach a nearly $50 million personal injury lawsuit settlement against city of Dana Point. (Full story)*
  
  
• In a personal injury claim, a former neurosurgeon and a hospital reached an out-of-court settlement with the family of a girl who was paralyzed after back surgery.(Full story)
  
  
• A Texas jury hands down a $1.5 million verdict on a personal injury claim that a hospital misdiagnosis led to relative's death.(Full story)
  
  
• The level of care at Veterans hospitals has come under scrutiny. According to one news report, it turned out that a surgeon who worked in an illinois veterans hospital had been previously barred from praticing in Massachustts for allegedly providing "grossly" substandard care.(Full story)
  
  
• Doctor whose medical license was suspended for over-prescribing drugs is being sued in a personal injury case by a former patient who alleges that he endangered her health.(Full story)
  
  
• Medicare has told hospitals that they will soon be responsible on their own for the expenses that incur from many common preventable mistakes they make. (Full story)
  
  
• In a personal injury case, a judge awards $9.4 million to the family of a 3-year-old boy who suffered massive brain damage while under the care of Tripler Army Medical Center.(Full story)
  
  
• Drug-related deaths, injuries reported to FDA surged between 1998-2005, study finds (Full story)*
  
  
• Surgeons with Children's Hospital of Orange County insert tube into the wrong ear of a child, the second wrong-site operation by hospital doctors in 18 months.(Full story)
  
  
• Family of man who was left in a vegetative state from a complication during surgery and later died sues the hospital. (Full story)
  
  
• Third medical malpractice lawsuit against former physician is settled for undisclosed sum.(Full story)
  
  
• Jury awards $7.5 million to a man who suffered brain damage following negligent treatment at Idaho hospital.(Full story)
  
  
• Georgia Supreme Court knocks another brick out of the General Assembly’s wall erected to stop certain personal injury medical malpractice suits.(Full story)
  
  
• Thirty-five lawsuits arising from the shutdown of the UC Irvine liver transplant program after reports that patients died needlessly while languishing on waiting lists are settled for $7.5 million.(Full story)

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