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Claire Neiger secured a defense verdict for a large hospital and healthcare system in Philadelphia in a medical malpractice action.  Decedent’s estate sought $2 million from the hospital and health system, alleging that Defendant hospital failed to properly monitor and ambulate decedent during his discharge from a bronchoscopic biopsy procedure.  Plaintiff alleged he was still under […]

Joe Petka again successfully defended a local hospital in a Philadelphia jury trial. The plaintiff was a sixty year old government worker who had visited a local hospital in order to eat lunch in the cafeteria. As she was leaving the hospital, the plaintiff slipped on a patch of ice that had developed near the […]

Joe Petka obtained back to back defense verdicts for two local hospitals in two separate jury trials in Philadelphia and Delaware county. The Philadelphia trial involved a 53 year old woman who fell off the curb outside of the front entrance of a city hospital resulting in fractured ankle which required hospitalization and a left […]

Following a trial that lasted two weeks, Claire Neiger, secured a defense verdict for a large hospital in Philadelphia.  The estate for the Plaintiff sought $8.0 million from the Defendant nursing home and our hospital client, alleging that Defendant hospital did not detect sacral and heel pressure ulcers during three separate admissions to the hospital […]

Plaintiff, a 78 year old woman, was leaving the hospital when she tripped over a railroad tie that surrounded a landscaping bed. Plaintiff claimed that the walkway where the accident happened was defectively designed because it directed pedestrians to walk over the landscaping bed. Furthermore, the corner of the landscaping bed was hidden by a […]