Elizabeth Crawford

Earlier in the same year, she was lead counsel in a case that resulted in an eight-figure settlement in a medical malpractice case in New Jersey for a man who suffered paralysis after a spinal surgery.

In 2022, Crawford, again as lead counsel, achieved a $19 million dollar settlement in a medical malpractice case in Pennsylvania for a child who suffered a brain injury at birth. In the same year, she achieved an $8 million dollar settlement in a train accident case, a $9 million dollar settlement in a medical malpractice case for a child who suffered a brain injury at birth, and another eight-figure settlement in an aviation case. In total, Crawford’s victories in 2022 exceed $50 million dollars.

As lead counsel she won a $4.7 million medical malpractice verdict, one of the largest malpractice verdicts in Montgomery County, Pa. This was a rare victory for a plaintiff in a hotly contested case involving the credibility of a patient’s word versus a physician’s word.

Crawford, again as lead counsel, has obtained multi-million-dollar settlements for clients against the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Hershey Medical Center, and Geisinger Medical Center in challenging medical malpractice cases.

She was co-counsel in securing a $7 million settlement in Delaware County, a $5 million settlement in Monroe County, and a $5 million settlement on behalf of a young woman who died as a result of a Philadelphia hospital’s negligence.

Crawford was also involved in a record settlement against the City of Philadelphia in 2016 for violation of the 14th Amendment (State-Created Danger) and intentional infliction of emotional distress for an action against the city and police for arrest and release of a young woman in a high crime area leading to sexual assault and rape. In a published decision in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the court denied summary judgment on the 14th Amendment claim, the qualified immunity claim, and the claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Crawford is currently involved as a member of the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee for victims who died aboard Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302. In that Boeing Max 8 litigation, Crawford, along with Shanin Specter, represents the estates of a U.S. global health analyst, a U.S. physician and a United Nations environmentalist who suffered and perished in the crash.

Crawford has also successfully litigated helicopter crash cases. In one, litigated with Tom Kline, the result was an eight-figure settlement. She also currently represents several families of babies who sustained severe hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy secondary to obstetrician and gynecologist negligence and has obtained eight-digit settlements on behalf of these brain-injured babies.