Kline & Specter - Major Victories

Settlement: Patient with abdominal and arm pain dies of heart attack while waiting in ER.

Settlement: Failure to diagnose seizure disorder in baby results in brain injury.

Verdict in 2019 for a Reading sanitation worker whose leg was amputated in a screw conveyor at a meat processing plant. 

Settlement: Delay in C-section for fetal distress causes asphyxia and brain injury.

Pittsburgh jury verdict for family of tow truck operator killed when Ford parking brake failed. (Blumer)

Settlement: Delay in delivery results fetal distress, cerebral atrophy and other injuries.

Delaware County verdict for missed cancer diagnosis. (Labricciosa)

Settlement: Mistreated infection after childbirth causes sepsis and mother's death.

Settlement: Infant delivered via C-section suffers seizures, cerebral palsy.

Settlement: Forceps delivery of premature baby causes skull fractures, cerebral palsy.

Settlement: Mistreated infection after childbirth causes sepsis and mother's death.

Verdict in Montgomery County against hospital involving botched cesarean section that caused the mother to suffer two cardiac arrests and undergo emergency hysterectomy. (Rongione)

Settlement: Injured teenager brain damaged due to excessive anesthetic and morphine.

Settlement in Philadelphia workplace death case (Green)

Settlement: Missed diagnosis of meningitis results in severe brain damage.

Allegheny County verdict for worker hurt in fall.

Allegheny County record med-mal verdict for childbirth injury. (Briggs)

Settlement: Delay in diagnosis and treatment of ruptured spleen results in death.

Settlement with La Salle University for brain injured football player. (Plevretes)

Settlement: Botched resuscitation after birth results in quadriplegia and cognitive deficits.

Settlement: Pre-birth malpractice leads to infant's severe mental and physical disabilities.

Settlement: Death of patient who suffered perforation and bleeding during sinus surgery.

Delaware County verdict in missed diagnosis case for stroke victim. (Cuff)

Child is injured at birth in central Pennsylvania

Settlement: Woman paralyzed due to medical errors in treatment following car accident.

Settlement: Baby suffers brain damage when skull is crushed in forceps/vacuum delivery.

Settlement: Injuries sustained in delay in delivery and later failure to timely intubate baby.

Settlement: Woman dies after giving birth due to bleeding and fluid management issues.

Settlement: Paraplegic injuries to 11-year old girl following spinal surgery.

Settlement: Misplaced tube causes child's intra-operative cardiac arrest, severe injuries.

Settlement with doctor, hospital in death of 16-month-old. (Donnelly)

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. (Simpson – coming soon)

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: Delay in birth delivery results in ischemic encephalopathy.