You may have seen Pennsylvania native and our law firm’s co-founding attorney Tom Kline on World News Tonight, Good Morning America or Nightline. Those are just a few of the news shows that have called on Kline, an accomplished Philadelphia personal injury and medical malpractice attorney, to share insight and commentary about noteworthy cases. But […]
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The defective product attorneys at Kline & Specter, PC, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania are following with interest the recent class-action news indicating that America’s oldest gun maker intentionally concealed widespread trigger mechanism safety problems. The revelation could affect millions of rifle owners, according to CNBC. As part of its coverage of a pending Remington Arms Co.
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NEWS RELEASE PHILADELPHIA — A jury today awarded $7 million in punitive damages against Johnson & Johnson for an Indiana woman injured by a surgically implanted vaginal mesh. The plaintiffs claimed the product was defective and that J&J knew and failed to warn doctors about its dangers. The verdict followed a $5.5 million compensatory award
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Opening speeches are due to get underway tomorrow in courtroom 246 in City Hall in the first Philadelphia trial involving a device surgically implanted in women to treat organ prolapse, a device called transvaginal mesh. The case involves the Prolift made by Ethicon, Inc., a division of Johnson & Johnson. In the current case, being
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Many Americans will be diagnosed incorrectly at least once in their lifetimes. That is the troubling finding made in a newly issued report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). The report found that diagnostic errors are by far the most pervasive in medicine, outranking medication mistakes. An estimated 12 million patients are misdiagnosed in the
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As parents head to the stores to buy toys for the holiday season, they should be aware of some that may be hazardous to their children. As noted in an ABC-6 report, the Pennsylvania Public Interest Group (PennPIRG) had some disturbing findings when it recently examined hundreds of toys currently on store shelves. Many of
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A lawsuit filed in Philadelphia claims that birth control pills that were mispackaged led to 113 unwanted pregnancies. According to the claim, the packages were “rotated 180 degrees” and thus reversed the order in which the pills were to be taken, meaning the women took placebos during the wrong week. The packaging error occurred in 2011
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According the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC,) a young child is likely to die this month, strangled by a window covering cord. “Window cord strangulations are one of the top hidden hazards in the home,” explains CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum. “CPSC recommends that only cordless window coverings or those with inaccessible cords be used in homes with
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It was only the beginning of her problems when a wife and mother in her forties suffered a heart attack. Taken to a Philadelphia hospital, she was treated for the heart attack but later suffered additional symptoms, including headache and vomiting. A resident in the intensive care unit prescribed pain and anti-nausea medicine but failed
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Braden Lepisto brings passion, conviction and heart to his personal injury law practice. He joined Kline & Specter after getting a taste of working at a few of the country’s largest law firms. Lepisto is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he incidentally earned an A+ in the “Practice of Law”
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Some law firms get their clients reasonable compensation for a personal injury. But not all lawyers are mindful of the broader social impact in the form of policy changes, product improvements, infrastructure repairs or medical device advanced that can result from their work. At Kline & Specter, PC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, our personal injury and medical
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania native and founding attorney Shanin Specter has the credentials to buoy a in any arena of the law or public service. Alongside co-founder Thomas Kline, Specter chose to build what has become one of the country’s leading personal injury and medical malpractice law firms. Here Specter talks about the drive to establish Kline
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Kline & Specter has litigated and is currently handling multiple prostate cancer cases. With more than 30 attorneys, five of whom are also doctors, we have the expertise to handle your prostate cancer lawsuit. In one case, a patient had a recurrence of prostate cancer and ultimately died due to a delayed diagnosis. In another case,
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Kline & Specter’s Michael Trunk and Gary Zakeosian waited long into the night last Friday, but when a jury reached a verdict at 9 p.m. after five hours of deliberations it was for the plaintiff – a nearly $2.8 million award in a medical malpractice case for Bonnie Semple of Aston, Pa. The incident that
Pop star Avril Lavigne recently drew attention not for her singing voice but to the problem of misdiagnosing Lyme disease. Lyme is an infectious bacterial disease most commonly contracted through a tick bite. It has been contracted by people in all 50 states and 60 countries nationwide. Early symptoms of Lyme disease may include: Skin
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