Plaintiff, a forty-two-year old mother of three children, alleged that she fell as a result of sidewalk defect on a Hospital’s property. Joseph Petka represented the defendant Hospital. The plaintiff was diagnosed with a dislocation and a tear in her right wrist. She was placed in a cast, and followed up with an orthopedic surgeon over […]
Eamon Merrigan obtained two defense verdicts in a Philadelphia jury trial in which two plaintiffs alleged to have slipped and fallen on the front steps of their apartment building. One plaintiff claimed to have exited the apartment, slipped on ice, and to have been knocked unconscious. A second plaintiff claimed to have heard the first […]
Matthew Moroney prevailed in a Montgomery County lawsuit involving a rear-end motor vehicle accident. The defense stipulated to liability for the accident. At trial, the jury heard that the plaintiff’s car was declared a total loss by her insurance company and she presented to an emergency room after the accident. Thereafter, she presented to a […]
Joseph Petka obtained a defense award in a Philadelphia County Underinsured Motorist arbitration action in which the third-party carrier had already tendered its $15,000 policy limit in a limited tort case. The plaintiff had been diagnosed with a cervical disc herniation, which was confirmed by MRI, and she continued to have ongoing daily neck and […]
Four plaintiffs alleged injury when a vehicle was rear-ended by defendant. Defendant claimed that at least two of the plaintiffs were not actually in the vehicle when she struck it. The jury found that none of the plaintiffs was harmed by the defendant’s negligence. Prior to trial, the plaintiffs had obtained a collective award of […]
