Kline & Specter - Major Victories

Verdict for parents of murdered parking lot attendant (Palmer)

Settlement: Early withdrawal of antibiotics leads to infection, hydrocephalus.

Settlement: Injection causes hematoma on spine, paralysis.

Settlement: Spine and brain trauma to psychiatric patient who fell in hospital.

Verdict against Presbyterian Children’s Village for twice placing a young girl in the home of a temporary foster family where she was sexually molested. (PCV) (read article)

Settlement: Delay in delivery causes severe hypoxic ischemic brain injury.

Settlement: Surgery results in sliver of bone pressing against spine, paralysis.

Settlement for man injured in accident with truck. (Lebeau)

Settlement: Pediatric ICU and endocrinologic malpractice results in brain injury.

Verdict vs. doctors for 76-year-old who suffered a stroke. (Monaghan)

Verdict for estate of Philadelphia woman who died of internal bleeding.

Settlement: Missed uterine cancer diagnosis leads to spread of the disease.

Settlement: Montgomery County verdict for woman injured during routine sinus surgery.

Settlement in drowning of 16-year-old boy (McCoy)

Settlement: Missed diagnosis of clogged intestine in ER leads to fatal heart attack.

Settlement: Failure to properly read scan leads to cancer, multiple surgeries.

Settlement: Late diagnosis and treatment of epidural hematoma causes quadriplegia.

Settlement: Delay in diagnosis of placental abruption and delivery causes brain injury.

Settlement: Missed spinal cord compression symptoms result in neurologic injuries.

Settlement for an undocumented worker crushed to death in housing excavation.

Settlement with Dauphin County and a healthcare company in the death of an inmate and the county prison

Settlement: Medical malpractice involving valve surgery results in death.

Settlement: Missed breast cancer diagnosis delays treatment more than two years.

Settlement: Delayed diagnosis of benign brain tumor results in neurological injuries.

Settlement for a woman in a case involving a medication error that resulted in eventual strokes.

Settlement: Infant dies after misconnected tubing over-pressurizes resuscitation bag.

Settlement: Negligent birth delivery and resuscitation causes neurologic injuries, death.

Settlement: Failure to timely deliver baby in fetal distress causes neurological injuries.

Verdict in 2019 in Montgomery County, Pa., against an Abington Hospital doctor for a Glenside man who died because of the delayed diagnosis of a severe bacterial infection. (Wilson)

Settlement with Archdiocese of Philadelphia in a case alleging one of its priests sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy.

Settlement in an auto accident case in which severe injuries resulted from a rear seat lap belt.

Verdict against Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for a baby late diagnosed with meningitis, resulting in permanent brain damage. (Tillery)