$44M Jury Verdict to Brain-Injured Woman in Medical Malpractice Case
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 13th, 2016
A Philadelphia woman who experienced an adverse reaction to blood anti-coagulation medication and was left with a serious brain injury as a result has been awarded a $44 million verdict by a Court of Commons Pleas jury in Philadelphia. The woman, Andrea Tate, had gone to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in September 2011 to remove a mass in her head known as a meningioma, according to a May 6 story by The...
How Texting a Driver Could Make You Liable for a Crash – Or Not?
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on May 6th, 2016
A driver is operating a motor vehicle and gets into a crash with another car just after receiving a text from an acquaintance on their mobile phone. In that case, can the driver sue the person who sent the text, blaming them for causing them to become distracted and crash? That's the issue in a recent lawsuit in Lawrence County in Pennsylvania, where a judge has allowed legal claims of negligence and wrongful death to...
Court Radio: Workers’ Compensation #2
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on May 1st, 2016
This week on Court Radio, Dean Weitzman and Jeff Gross answer questions from listeners regarding workers' compensation. [audio mp3="https://www.myphillylawyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2016.05.01-Workers-Comp1.mp3"][/audio] [powerpress]
$1.2M Settlement to Injured Worker in Construction Fall
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 30th, 2016
A construction worker who fell while walking on a 17-foot-high wall at a worksite and broke both ankles and feet in 2012 has reached a $1.2 million settlement with the contractor and general contractor in charge of the project. The worker, David Markowski, who was 28 years old at the time of his fall, was working at a construction site on Misericordia University's campus in Luzerne County when he fell from the wall on Jan....
$20M Medical Malpractice Settlement to Family of Brain-Damaged Child
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 29th, 2016
The family of a three-year-old San Diego, Calif., girl who was the victim of a nursing error in a hospital four days after she was born in January 2013 will receive a $20 million settlement to pay for her continuing medical care. The girl, whose name was withheld to protect her identity, was born five weeks prematurely and was placed in a newborn intensive care unit (ICU), where four days later her mother found her...
Court Radio: Auto Insurance
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on April 24th, 2016
This week on Court Radio, Dean Weitzman takes legal issue inquiries from callers, such as auto insurance claims. [audio mp3="https://www.myphillylawyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2016.04.24-AUTO-INS1.mp3"][/audio] [powerpress]
$5.5M Settlement to Child Severely Injured in Fall from Window
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 15th, 2016
The family of a 7-year-old child who suffered brain damage after falling from a third-story window in an apartment in a subsidized housing development in North Philadelphia has reached a $5.5 million settlement with the developers, contractors and architects of the development. The settlement will be received by the family of Rahniya Neal, who was three-years-old in January 2012, when she was playing on the top bunk of a bed with a cousin and fell...
Court Radio: General Legal Q&A #3
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on April 10th, 2016
This week on Court Radio, Dean Weitzman answer questions from callers about general legal issues. [audio mp3="https://www.myphillylawyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2016.04.10-General-Legal1.mp3"][/audio] [powerpress]
$14.9M Verdict to Woman Severely Injured by Driver’s Seat in Crash
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on April 8th, 2016
A 43-year-old California woman has been awarded a $14.9 million jury verdict after she was severely hurt by the driver's seat back in her car when she was rear-ended by a pickup truck in a 2012 crash. Marcia Gray was driving her 1995 Mazda Protégé automobile on westbound Interstate 580 near the Interstate 980 interchange on April 30, 2012, when she stopped suddenly to avoid a crash ahead of her and was hit from behind...