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The following are some of the larger publicly disclosed settlements and verdicts obtained by Kline & Specter attorneys.
$14.5M
Birth Injury
Verdict in Johnstown, Pa., for a boy who suffered severe cerebral palsy due to mishandled delivery. Jury award was largest-ever in a medical malpractice case in federal court in western Pennsylvania.
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$14.25M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement involving an infant injured by a misplaced tracheostomy tube, resulting in anoxic brain damage.
$14 M
Premises Liability
Bucks County verdict against the Pennsbury School district for a teenage student who lost her leg when she was run over by a school bus. (Zauflik)
$14 M
Birth Injury
Delay in delivery of newborn resulted in severe injuries.
$13 M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Man dies of sepsis after coronary bypass surgery due to failure to provide appropriate antibiotic therapy.
$13 M
Brain Injury
Settlement: Obstetrical malpractice results in brain injury to child gynecologic injury.
$12.75M
Medical Devices
Settlement for a patient who suffered brain damage when a medical device manufacturer’s Neuroblate surgical instrument broke during intracranial surgery.
(Brassloff)
$12.5M
Medical Devices
$12.5M -- Total verdicts -- $5.5 million compensatory and $7 million punitive -- against Johnson & Johnson for an Indiana woman injured by surgically implanted vaginal mesh.
(Hammons)
$12.25M
Premises Liability
Settlement for boy injured after falling through an apartment window. Jury awarded $7 million but pre-trial agreement raised the sum paid. (Woolfolk)
$12 M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Negligent treatment of leukemia results in patient suffering spinal cord injury and quadriplegia.
$11.8M
Premises Liability
Settlement with the Philadelphia Housing Authority and property manager for girl who suffered brain damage after asthma attack caused by mold in home. (McKinney)
$11.6M
Premises Liability
Settlement for a former University of Pennsylvania student left a paraplegic after a 20-foot fall at an off-campus residence. (Bernhoft)
$11.3M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Patient incapacitated following experimental treatment without his knowledge or proper oversight.
$11 M
Personal Injury
Philadelphia Verdict for a man who was shot and catastrophically injured by a teenager who was permitted to escape from a Devereux Foundation behavioral rehabilitation center. (Johnson)
$11 M
Child Abuse
Settlement with a Philadelphia social service agency for its alleged failure to oversee an infant’s care, causing a brain injury that resulted in spastic quadriplegia and blindness.
(Tabor)
$11 M
Child Abuse
Verdict against a child placement agency and adoptive parents of a girl who was physically and sexually abused in the home.
$10.5M
Wrongful Death
Settlement for the family of a Philadelphia teenager killed when staff at a treatment center put him into a restraint hold. (Leach)
$10.19M
Whistleblower
Settlement in a case alleging fraudulent practices against a New York-based company in the sale of prescription medications to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.
$10 M
Medical Malpractice
New Jersey jury verdict involving boy who suffered brain damage due to allergic reaction to peanuts. (Varghese)
$10 M
Workplace Injury
Settlement for a young man who was killed at work when a truck he was working on rolled over onto him.
$10 M
Product Liability
Settlement with manufacturer in a case in which a school lunch table collapsed and killed a kindergarten student. (Cozzolino)
$10M
Fire Injury
Settlement in a house fire that killed a man and injured his brother.
$9.5M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Patient with abdominal and arm pain dies of heart attack while waiting in ER.
$9.5M
Birth Injury
Settlement: Failure to diagnose seizure disorder in baby results in brain injury.
$9.5M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Failure to diagnose sodium levels results in pediatric stroke in a nine-month-old child.
$9.2M
Workplace Injury
Verdict in 2019 for a Reading sanitation worker whose leg was amputated in a screw conveyor at a meat processing plant.
$9M
Sexual Abuse
Settlement with a rideshare company and a Philadelphia Days Inn hotel on claims they enabled a man to rape an 11-year-old girl.
$9M
Birth Injury
Settlement: Delay in C-section for fetal distress causes asphyxia and brain injury.
$8.75M
Wrongful Death
Pittsburgh jury verdict for family of tow truck operator killed when Ford parking brake failed. (Blumer)
$8.5M
Birth Injury
Settlement: Delay in delivery results fetal distress, cerebral atrophy and other injuries.
$8.2M
Medical Malpractice
Delaware County verdict for missed cancer diagnosis. (Labricciosa)
$8M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Mistreated infection after childbirth causes sepsis and mother's death.
$8M
Birth Injury
Settlement: Infant delivered via C-section suffers seizures, cerebral palsy.
$8M
Birth Injury
Settlement: Forceps delivery of premature baby causes skull fractures, cerebral palsy.
$8M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Mistreated infection after childbirth causes sepsis and mother's death.
$8M
Medical Malpractice
Verdict in Montgomery County against hospital involving botched cesarean section that caused the mother to suffer two cardiac arrests and undergo emergency hysterectomy. (Rongione)
$8M
Brain Injury
Settlement: Injured teenager brain damaged due to excessive anesthetic and morphine.
$8M
Workplace Injury
Settlement in Philadelphia workplace death case
(Green)
$7.9M
Brain Injury
Settlement: Missed diagnosis of meningitis results in severe brain damage.
$7.9M
Workplace Injury
Allegheny County verdict for worker hurt in fall.
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Click on the following options below to learn more about some of Kline and Specter's most notable cases:
- Medical Malpractice (Includes brain and spinal cord injury, birth injury and neonatal cases, failure to diagnose cancer, and general malpractice)
- Mass Tort/Drug Cases
- Product Liability
- Premises Liability
- Automobile Litigation
- Civil Rights
- Defamation
