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On Labor Day, plaintiff and her husband were on their way to visit the plaintiff’s father who was being treated for cancer at the hospital. Plaintiff and her husband entered the main lobby of the building and as plaintiff walked into the elevator she stepped onto a wet substance which resulted in her body sliding […]

Claire Neiger defended a hospital in week-long trial in which significant damages were alleged due to the hospital’s alleged negligence in allowing the plaintiff to roll off a stretcher in the stress lab.  Plaintiff, a 50 year old female physical education teacher, claimed a cochlear concussion with severe hearing loss in her right ear requiring […]

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 […]

Lori Miller obtained a defense verdict by way of a motion for a directed verdict in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.  The case was presided over by Judge Albert Snite, Jr. Plaintiff, a 13-year-old boy, claimed that while riding his scooter over a broken drainage grate, his scooter wheel got caught in the grate […]

Joseph Petka obtained a defense verdict in a premises liability action involving a defendant hospital.  The plaintiff alleged that, while at the hospital, a toilet seat she was using broke off, causing her to fall to the ground and sustain a neck injury.  Mr. Petka successfully argued that there was no credible evidence supporting the plaintiff’s claims, […]