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A Delaware County jury deliberated for less than seven minutes before deciding that Joe Petka’s client did not cause plaintiff’s injuries. The case involved a car accident in Marple Township, Pennsylvania. The defendant admittedly became distracted and entered the oncoming lane of traffic, striking the plaintiff’s vehicle head-on. The impact caused the plaintiff’s airbags to […]

Before the first month of the New Year had passed, Eamon Merrigan obtained two Philadelphia jury trial defense verdicts on behalf of his clients. To begin the year, Mr. Merrigan successfully defended a young motorist who struck a pedestrian who was leaving a nearby bar. The plaintiff admitted that he was too intoxicated to drive […]

A 12-member jury confronted gruesome photographs of a 77-year-old man’s fractured arm and fractured knee throughout an emotional trial in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in which the plaintiff sought more than $250,000 for injuries sustained in a trip and fall accident inside a local hospital. Yet Lori Miller obtained a defense verdict after […]

A Philadelphia jury deliberated less than an hour before entering a defense verdict on factual cause in the case of a woman who alleged post-traumatic stress disorder after being involved in an accident while eight months pregnant. The plaintiff’s claims arose out of an accident in which defendant turned in front of a SEPTA Trolley, […]

Warren Holland successfully defended a Philadelphia County lawsuit arising from a moderately severe intersectional car accident where the defendant’s negligence was not in dispute. The plaintiff, who was twenty-nine (29) years old when the accident occurred and had no demonstrable history of prior injury, alleged that he sustained serious and permanent injuries as a result […]