{"id":7485,"date":"2019-04-05T10:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2019-04-05T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T22:56:57","slug":"personal-injury-attorney-wins-24-8-million-verdict-for-roofer-who-suffered-catastrophic-injuries-when-he-tripped-and-fell-through-a-roof-skylight-at-auto-body-shop-while-making-roof-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/2019\/04\/05\/personal-injury-attorney-wins-24-8-million-verdict-for-roofer-who-suffered-catastrophic-injuries-when-he-tripped-and-fell-through-a-roof-skylight-at-auto-body-shop-while-making-roof-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Injury Attorney Wins $24.8 Million Verdict for Roofer Who Suffered Catastrophic Injuries When He Tripped and Fell Through a Roof Skylight at Auto Body Shop While Making Roof Repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

A suburban Philadelphia roofer who tripped and fell\nthrough a roof skylight while making roof repairs at an auto body shop in Delaware\nCounty in June of 2016 has been awarded $24.8 million jury verdict after suffering\ncatastrophic brain injuries<\/a>, multiple bone fractures and partial blindness\nin the accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victim, Sean Kalinowski, and his wife, Michele,\nreceived the jury award following a month-long trial in the Philadelphia Court\nof Common Pleas after filing a personal injury lawsuit, according to a March 28\nstory by Law.com<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sean Kalinowski, who was in his early 40s at the time of the incident, was\nworking on the roof of an auto body shop in Aston when he likely tripped on a\npallet on the roof or on the skylight mounts and fell through the glass skylight\nto the concrete floor about 20 feet below, the story reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lawsuit for the Kalinowski family argued that guard rails or screens\nshould have been installed around the skylight to protect anyone on the roof\nfrom falls, the report continued. The building housing the auto body shop is\nowned by 2626 Market LLC and was being leased by ABRA Auto Body & Glass.\nBoth companies were named as parties in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pretrial memo from the plaintiff’s attorneys argued that the defendants\nwere negligent for failing to provide a safe workplace or to warn Kalinowski\nabout the dangerous condition on the roof, the story states. The memo also\nargued that another skylight on the roof had recently been damaged by a heavy hood\ncover and while repairs were being made to it both defendants had been told\nthat the skylights were dangerous and could result in an injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kalinowski suffered a severe traumatic brain injury and multiple fractures\nfrom the fall he sustained and underwent numerous intensive care treatments,\nincluding craniotomies, tracheostomy and plate fixation, the story reported.\nAfter two months of hospitalization, he was treated at a nursing facility for a\nmonth and then spent three months at Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital. Following\nthose treatments he was then hospitalized again for seizure disorders and\nhardware removals, the story continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kalinowski also suffered partial blindness due to his injuries and is unable\nto work or live alone, requiring continuing help with daily tasks, the story\nreported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After hearing testimony in the case, the jury found the body shop 60 percent negligent, the building owner 30 percent negligence and Kalinowski himself 10 percent at fault in the incident, according to the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case was handled by the law firm of Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legal cases like this one occur around the\nnation every day and are examples of similar kinds of slip and fall accident\ncases that MyPhillyLawyer<\/em> attorneys regularly work on\ntirelessly for our own clients. Often, we are not able to discuss the cases we\nare actively working on due to confidentiality requirements, so we discuss\nother relevant cases in the news such as this one to illustrate the legal\nsituations people find themselves in every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you need a slip and fall\nattorney<\/a>, we here at MyPhillyLawyer <\/em>stand ready\nto assist you with your legal case if you or a loved one is ever seriously\ninjured in any kind of slip and fall, workplace injury, wrongful death or car\ncrash in Philadelphia or anywhere in the United States. We pledge to make\nsure that you and your family get the compassionate, dogged and experienced\nlegal representation that you deserve and expect from a professional legal team\nwhich works hard to uncover every fact to bolster your case and maximize your\ndamage award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We represent the families of victims who die\nin such tragedies as well, to ensure that their families receive every penny of\ndamages that they are eligible to receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talk to a Philadelphia personal injury attorney\nat MyPhillyLawyer<\/a> by\ncalling 215-227-2727 or toll-free at 1-(866) 352-4572 anytime\nand our experienced, compassionate, aggressive team of attorneys and support\nstaff will be there for you and your family every step of the way as we manage\nyour case through the legal system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Winning Matters Most, Call\nMyPhillyLawyer.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A suburban Philadelphia roofer who tripped and fell through a roof skylight while making roof repairs at an auto body shop in Delaware County in June of 2016 has been awarded $24.8 million jury verdict after suffering catastrophic brain injuries, multiple bone fractures and partial blindness in the accident. The victim, Sean Kalinowski, and his…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50,63,64,40,51,29,30,1700,33],"tags":[1722,972,1719,1721,1720,1701],"class_list":["post-7485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court-radio","category-law-in-the-news","category-law-you-can-use","category-legal-knowledgebase","category-legal-updates","category-personal-injury","category-premises-liability","category-slip-and-fall","category-work-injuries","tag-body-shop-accident","tag-brain-injury","tag-roof-fall","tag-roofer-injured","tag-skylight-fall","tag-traumatic-brain-injury"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/skylight-123257_1920.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myphillylawyer.com\/yue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}