$2.4 Million Settlement in Death of Woman After Missed Cancer Diagnosis
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on October 11th, 2013
When Sandra L. Berry of Juniata County, Pa., went to Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey complaining of persistent pain and discomfort back in October 2008, she and her husband wanted to find the answers to her medical problems. Instead, it wasn't until July 2010 that her vulvar cancer was detected, and by then it had spread into other areas of her body. Now, almost two years after she died at 49...
$1.6 Million Settlement in Wrongful Death Case of Motorist Killed by a Drunk Driver
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on October 4th, 2013
As she drove her vehicle through an intersection in Springfield, Ill., on July 21, 2012, 22-year-old Quana S. Poole's van was struck by a work truck being operated by a drunken driver. The work truck driver ran a red light and smashed into Poole's vehicle. She died the next day from her injuries. More than a year after the fatal crash, her family has reached a $1.6 million settlement in connection with her death, according...
Lehigh Valley Family Awarded $4.1 Million Verdict After Daughter’s Severe Birth Injury
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on September 27th, 2013
As an Easton woman prepared to give birth to her daughter in August 2009, she discovered through a sonogram test that the fetus in her womb already weighed some 10 pounds. The woman shared her concerns about the large size of the infant with her doctor, but received reassurances from him that all would be well during childbirth. But four days later, when the woman, Erin McCarthy, went into labor on Aug. 23, 2009, problems...
Montgomery County Man Awarded $4 Million Verdict After Errant Cyst Surgery
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on September 13th, 2013
In July of 2009, 29-year-old Jeffrey Hierholzer of Hatboro, Montgomery County, went in to his doctor's office to have a cyst removed from his neck. Shortly after the surgery, however, he began feeling pain and weakness in his shoulder near the site of the cyst surgery. In a decision handed down Aug. 22, a Montgomery County jury awarded Hierholzer $4 million in damages for his injuries after he sued the doctor for the errant procedure...
MyPhillyLawyer’s Court Radio Expands to 2 More Radio Stations
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on September 6th, 2013
MyPhillyLawyer's four-year-old "Court Radio" show, which is broadcast at 7 a.m. ET every Sunday on 100.3 FM in Philadelphia, is now expanding to two additional radio stations starting this Sunday, Sept. 8. The call-in radio show, which features listeners asking questions about their legal concerns and problems involving a wide variety of scenarios, has been a Sunday morning staple in the Philadelphia area since January of 2009 on Old School 100.3 FM, which was formerly...
$2 Million Verdict for Victim in Vaginal Mesh Implant Case in West Virginia
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on August 23rd, 2013
A West Virginia woman has been awarded $2 million in damages after she suffered severe pain, bleeding and bladder spasms following vaginal mesh implant surgery back in 2009. And even more powerful, the woman's devastating injuries and the tragic case are just the tip of the iceberg. There are some 8,000 similar lawsuits pending against the makers of the vaginal mesh devices involved in this case. Thousands of other lawsuits are also pending against the...
The Right Move: U.S. Aims to Finally Reform Overly Harsh Drug Sentences
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on August 16th, 2013
In the United States, there is a higher percentage of people incarcerated behind prison bars than in any other nation in the world. Yes, many of them are murderers, rapists, muggers and other dangerous, hard-core criminals. At the same time, though, many are also non-violent, low-level drug dealers who have been imprisoned for long stretches of time due to mandatory minimum sentences that were adopted around the nation to show citizens that their local officials...
Why Medical Malpractice “Reforms” Hurt Patients and Benefit Insurance Companies
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on June 21st, 2013
Supporters of medical malpractice reform have for years pointed to huge court verdicts to plaintiffs and rising insurance rates for doctors as two prime reasons for why such reforms are needed. The problem with those claims, though, is that they are just not true. Yet these lies and innuendo continue because those are the messages being communicated by insurance companies and their lackeys. A new report in the journal, CHEST, the official publication of the...
Maryland Repeals Its Death Penalty: Pennsylvania and Other States Must Follow Maryland’s Lead
By Dean I Weitzman, Esq. on May 3rd, 2013
Maryland became the 18th state to repeal its death penalty on May 2, after Gov. Martin O'Malley signed a long-awaited bill to rid its criminal code of capital punishment, according to a story in The Baltimore Sun. O'Malley had supported the repeal since 2007 and failed in a previous attempt to overturn the law in 2009. This time, though, state legislators backed the measure and passed it in both the state Senate and House before...