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Personal Injury Attorneys
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
800-597-9585
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Personal injuries occur every minute across the United States due to a variety of causes - medical malpractice, auto accidents, defective products, unsafe workplaces, hazardous premises, crime.
There are more than six million auto accidents alone each year, resulting in nearly three million injuries and roughly 40,000 deaths. Errors by doctors, nurses and other health care personnel cause an estimated 44,000 to 120,000 deaths annually, or one fatality every five to 12 minutes.
Very often, personal injury is not the victim's fault. In many cases, negligence is the cause of personal injury, and another person, product or place may be liable. If you or a loved one suffered a serious injury or death as the result of negligence or carelessness or because of a defective product or dangerous location, you may want to contact a personal injury attorney.
Kline & Specter, P.C., is among the nation's leading personal injury law firms. With some 30 highly skilled attorneys, five of whom are also experienced doctors, the Philadelphia-based law firm has won some of the largest courtroom verdicts and settlements in the Philadelphia-New Jersey-Delaware region and nationwide.
These include: a $153 million verdict against Ford Motor Co. in a case involving a defective brake and the death of a small boy; a $51 million verdict against the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) in a case in which a subway escalator tore off a child's foot; a $49 million verdict for a young man brain damaged as a result of medical error; a $40.5 million settlement resulting from an Montgomery County apartment fire; a $36.4 million settlement for a worker killed in a Delaware refinery explosion; a $33.1 million verdict in a breast cancer diagnosis case; a $29.6 million settlement in the Philadelphia Pier 34 collapse that claimed three lives. (For more, see Major Victories.)
For a free evaluation of your case, contact a personal injury lawyer today.
- In California, the families of apartment fire victims are awarded $29 million personal injury settlement after a judge ruled that a real estate and property management company was negligent in maintaining the apartment. A man, his fiancé and their two-year-old daughter died when their apartment building caught on fire. Two of the woman’s siblings were also killed. (Full story)
- In Florida, the Boca Raton City Council approves an $85,000 settlement for a woman who suffered brain damage when she fell on a city sidewalk that had been damaged by Hurricane Frances. When the woman fell, she hit her head, face, shoulders, knees and hands and blacked out momentarily. (Full story)
- A Virginia judge approves an $11 million settlement from the state to the families of victims killed or injured in the Virginia Tech shootings. The families had pursued wrongful death and personal injury claims against the state after a report by an independent panel concluded that more timely and more specific information from university officials might have saved lives. (Full story)
- Two California women left quadriplegic after being struck by a driver while jogging in a bike lane on Pacific Coast Highway reach a nearly $50 million personal injury lawsuit settlement against city of Dana Point. (Full story)
- In a personal injury claim, a former neurosurgeon and a hospital reached an out-of-court settlement with the family of a girl who was paralyzed after back surgery.(Full story)
- A Texas jury hands down a $1.5 million verdict on a personal injury claim that a hospital misdiagnosis led to relative's death.(Full story)
- The level of care at Veterans hospitals has come under scrutiny. According to one news report, it turned out that a surgeon who worked in an illinois veterans hospital had been previously barred from praticing in Massachustts for allegedly providing "grossly" substandard care.(Full story)
- Doctor whose medical license was suspended for over-prescribing drugs is being sued in a personal injury case by a former patient who alleges that he endangered her health.(Full story)
- In a personal injury case, a judge awards $9.4 million to the family of a 3-year-old boy who suffered massive brain damage while under the care of Tripler Army Medical Center.(Full story)
- Drug-related deaths, injuries reported to FDA surged between 1998-2005, study finds (Full story)
- Surgeons with Children's Hospital of Orange County insert tube into the wrong ear of a child, the second wrong-site operation by hospital doctors in 18 months.(Full story)
- Family of man who was left in a vegetative state from a complication during surgery and later died sues the hospital. (Full story)
- Third medical malpractice lawsuit against former physician is settled for undisclosed sum.(Full story)
- Jury awards $7.5 million to a man who suffered brain damage following negligent treatment at Idaho hospital.(Full story)
- Thirty-five lawsuits arising from the shutdown of the UC Irvine liver transplant program after reports that patients died needlessly while languishing on waiting lists are settled for $7.5 million.(Full story)
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Disclaimer: Kline & Specter, P.C. only provides legal advice after having entered into an attorney client relationship, which our website specifically does not create. It is imperative that any action taken be done on advice of counsel. Because every case is different, the description of awards and cases previously handled do not guarantee a similar outcome in current or future cases. The firm practices law in New Jersey as Kline & Specter. Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America and other organizations that rate attorneys are not designations that have been approved by the State Supreme Courts or the American Bar Association.
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