Talcum Powder Ovarian Cancer Victims Get Help from MyPhillyLawyer
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on July 8th, 2016
After 62-year-old Jacqueline Fox died in 2015 from ovarian cancer, her family sued Johnson & Johnson, the maker of the baby powder and other talcum powders she had used for more than 35 years. In February, a Missouri jury ordered the consumer products company to pay her family $72 million in damages after finding that her ovarian cancer was linked to the use of the products. More than 1,200 other women who have been diagnosed...
$6M Settlement in Teen’s Drowning Death in Apartment Complex Pool
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on June 3rd, 2016
The family of a 14-year-old boy who drowned in an apartment complex swimming pool in Swatara Township near Harrisburg in June 2015 has reached a $6 million settlement with several defendants in connection with the boy’s death. The boy, Benjamin Dodoo, died June 17, 2015, while he swam in a pool at the Aspen Hill Apartment complex in the 5000 block of Stacey Drive East in Swatara Township, Dauphin County, according to an earlier report...
$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...
$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...
$2.39M Verdict to Woman Injured in Fall After Knee Surgery
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on February 24th, 2016
A Macungie, Pa., woman has been awarded $2.39 million in damages by a Lehigh County jury after knee replacement surgery in 2012 left her disabled and confined to a wheelchair. The patient, Betty L. Shiflett, had originally undergone a left knee replacement operation in the early 1990s which by March 2012 needed to be redone, according to a Feb. 12 story in The Legal Intelligencer. In April 2012, Shiflett again underwent the replacement of the...
$15M Damage Award in Lancaster County Fatal DUI Car Crash Case
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on January 22nd, 2016
A Lancaster County jury has awarded $15 million in damages to the family of a 24-year-old York County woman who was killed in February 2014 when the car she was driving was struck by an SUV that was being operated by a man who was legally drunk. Kaitlyn E. Berry was killed in the Feb. 22, 2014 crash when her vehicle was struck on Lancaster's East King Street by an SUV being driven erratically by...
$4.2M Verdict After Failed Knee Surgery Leads to Amputation
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on December 11th, 2015
A Philadelphia-area woman who had her left leg amputated after a serious infection occurred following a double knee replacement surgery in 2010 has been awarded $4.2 million in damages by a Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas jury. The plaintiff, Annabelle Glasgow, had the surgery after her doctor, Dr. Easwaran Balasubramanian of Temple University Hospital, diagnosed her with degenerative arthritis in both knees in late 2010, according to a Dec. 9 story in The Legal Intelligencer....
Sober Thoughts About Drinking and Driving During the Holidays
By Dean I. Weitzman, Esq. on November 27th, 2015
Drinking and driving never mix, especially during the holidays when we are reminded over and over again to enjoy ourselves, but to drink responsibly. It's the time of year when we are inundated with public service messages about the dangers of drinking and driving, and when we see an uptick in the number of holiday sobriety checks on area roads. Just in time for the upcoming holiday activities, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), the...