Safety Improvements: Many Kline & Specter cases have resulted not only in large monetary resolutions but also in changes that benefited thousands if not millions of citizens. (See examples)
The following are some of the larger publicly disclosed settlements and verdicts obtained by Kline & Specter attorneys.
$6M
Birth Injury
Settlement: Premature baby in hospital three weeks contracts bacterial meningitis.
$6M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Botched CV line placement, delayed diagnosis leads to leg amputations.
$6M
Brain Injury
Settlement: Delay in treating thoracic aortic dissection brings cardiac arrest, brain injury.
$6M
Birth Injury
Settlement: Botched delivery by midwife results in baby’s severe brain injury.
$6M
Brain Injury
Settlement: Patient suffers respiratory distress after hip replacement, suffers brain injury.
$5.95M
Birth Injury
Settlement for a woman who suffered respiratory failure and septic shock after hospital staff failed to recognize an infection after a Caesarean delivery.
$5.8M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Woman suffers stroke following a transcatheter closure procedure.
$5.8M
Medical Malpractice
NJ verdict for woman given wrong anti-malaria drug for trip.
$5.63M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Medical malpractice leading to cardiac arrest following car accident.
$5.5M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Early withdrawal of antibiotics leads to infection, hydrocephalus.
$5.5M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Injection causes hematoma on spine, paralysis.
$5.5M
Wrongful Death
Verdict for parents of murdered parking lot attendant (Palmer)
$5.45M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Spine and brain trauma to psychiatric patient who fell in hospital.
$5.35M
Sexual Abuse
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)
$5.3M
Birth Injury
Settlement: Delay in delivery causes severe hypoxic ischemic brain injury.
$5.25M
Motor Vehicle Accident
Settlement for man injured in accident with truck.
(Lebeau)
$5.21M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Pediatric ICU and endocrinologic malpractice results in brain injury.
$5.2M
Medical Malpractice
Verdict vs. doctors for 76-year-old who suffered a stroke. (Monaghan)
$5.2M
Medical Malpractice
Verdict for estate of Philadelphia woman who died of internal bleeding.
$5.2M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Missed uterine cancer diagnosis leads to spread of the disease.
$5.1M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Montgomery County verdict for woman injured during routine sinus surgery.
$5.1M
Wrongful Death
Settlement in drowning of 16-year-old boy (McCoy)
$5.1M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Missed diagnosis of clogged intestine in ER leads to fatal heart attack.
$5M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Failure to properly read scan leads to cancer, multiple surgeries.
$5M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Late diagnosis and treatment of epidural hematoma causes quadriplegia.
$5M
Birth Injury
Settlement: Delay in diagnosis of placental abruption and delivery causes brain injury.
$5M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Missed spinal cord compression symptoms result in neurologic injuries.
$5M
Workplace Injury
Settlement for an undocumented worker crushed to death in housing excavation.
$5M
Civil Rights
Settlement with Dauphin County and a healthcare company in the death of an inmate and the county prison
$5M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Medical malpractice involving valve surgery results in death.
$5M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement: Missed breast cancer diagnosis delays treatment more than two years.
$5M
Brain Injury
Settlement: Delayed diagnosis of benign brain tumor results in neurological injuries.
$5M
Medical Malpractice
Settlement for a woman in a case involving a medication error that resulted in eventual strokes.
$5M
Birth Injury
Settlement: Infant dies after misconnected tubing over-pressurizes resuscitation bag.
$5M
Birth Injury
Settlement: Negligent birth delivery and resuscitation causes neurologic injuries, death.
$5M
Birth Injury
Settlement: Failure to timely deliver baby in fetal distress causes neurological injuries.
$4.7M
Medical Malpractice
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)
$3.5M
Sexual Abuse
Settlement with Archdiocese of Philadelphia in a case alleging one of its priests sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy.
$3M
Product Liability
Settlement in an auto accident case in which severe injuries resulted from a rear seat lap belt.
$1.01M
Medical Malpractice
Verdict against Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia for a baby late diagnosed with meningitis, resulting in permanent brain damage. (Tillery)
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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
