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Jury Awards $8M for victims of fatal factory shooting

Serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, New York & Nationwide

Practice Area: 
Wrongful Death
Case: 
Brown-Wilson
News Station: 
The Legal Intelligencer
PDF: 
factory-legalintel-022715.pdf
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8 Reasons To Choose Us
  • 1
    Track Record/ Major Victories

    We have more $10 million+ results over a 20-year period than any other Pennsylvania law firm, as many as the next three firms combined.
    The Legal Intelligencer

  • 2
    We Care About You

    We work closely with you to help ensure you receive every bit of legal, medical, insurance and financial assistance to which you are entitled.

  • 3
    Best Attorneys

    Seventeen of our attorneys have been named Super Lawyers or “Rising Stars” by the independent rating survey. Tom Kline has been rated No. 1 in PA 15 times in a row and Shanin Specter in the Top 10 year after year.

  • 4
    Doctor/Lawyer Team

    We have an unmatched staff of five doctor-lawyers working full-time for our firm. No other law firm in the United States has as many physicians on staff.

  • 5
    Our Staff

    We have more than 40 attorneys and a staff of 110 to serve clients. We promptly pair you with an attorney for a consultation and spare no effort or expense in litigating cases.

  • 6
    Legal Care

    We are leaders in handling serious personal injury & whistleblower cases. When we go to court, we bring an army of skilled attorneys and experts to seek to achieve the best possible verdict or settlement.

  • 7
    Safety Efforts

    We care about making things right. In a lot of cases, that means getting you more than just money. Our cases have resulted in safety improvements in medical care, consumer products, mass transit, motor vehicles, public utilities, police conduct and more.

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    Free Consultations

    We provide free case reviews and we work on a contingent fee basis, meaning we don’t get paid unless you win.

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Major Victories
  • $8B

    Punitive damages verdict against J&J involving the drug Risperdal, linked to the growth of female breast tissue in boys. Verdict was the largest in PA history and among largest ever in the nation. (Risperdal)

  • $153M

    Verdict against Ford in death of a boy run over by truck with defective parking brake. The then-second largest product liability verdict in the nation. (White) (Jury awarded $52 million in retrial of punitive damages.)

  • $120M

    Verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a vaginal mesh case. The verdict included $100 million in punitive damages and is the largest contested liability verdict in Pennsylvania history. (McFarland)

  • $109M

    The jury verdict included $48 million compensatory and $61 million punitive damages for the family of a woman killed by a fallen electric line. (Goretzka)

  • $100M

    Largest-ever medical malpractice verdict in Pennsylvania, for a baby who suffered severe brain damage due to medical malpractice. (Vlasny)

  • $96M

    Recovery following a verdict for a woman catastrophically injured in a Philadelphia building collapse. Largest personal injury recovery in Pennsylvania history. (Plekan) 

  • $80M

    Verdict against J&J  for a Media, Pa., woman in a vaginal mesh case. Verdict included $50 million in punitive and $30 million in compensatory damages, the largest compensatory award in the ongoing mesh litigation. (Mesigian)

  • $57M

    Verdict against Johnson & Johnson for a Pennsylvania woman permanently injured by a defective vaginal mesh device. (Ebaugh)

  • $57M

    Verdict in birth injury case involving oxygen deprivation which resulted in cerebral palsy.

  • $51M

    Verdict against the Philadelphia mass transit agency in a case in which a boy’s foot was severed in an escalator. SEPTA was also fined for concealing documents. (Hall)

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