Personal Injury Litigation

I have recently renewed a love affair with running.  Unfortunately, this requires braving the roads of Bucks County often times in the dark of the early morning.  My wife and her friends are dedicated walkers.  What are the rules of [ Read More ]

After years of lost work, repeated visits to doctors, repeated diagnostic testing, surgery or other painful procedures, physical therapy, ongoing pain, and an inability to do the things you enjoy, not to mention years of litigation to be compensated for [ Read More ]

 Some physicians claim to order a large number of unnecessary and expensive tests, such as CT scans or MRI’s, not because patients need them but to protect themselves from lawsuits.  The “defensive medicine excuse” is one argument used by physician [ Read More ]

Why should a defense attorney have access to your gynecologic records if you have a neck injury?

Could there be a more devastating loss than the death of a child?  In my experience with grieving parents, the loss invades a parent’s waking thoughts, and disturbs sleep, forever, with only brief respites of distraction.  Time helps scar over [ Read More ]

After 18 years of litigation, on June 12, 2014, Judge Jeffrey Sprecher decided that Nationwide should pay $18 Million Dollars in Punitive Damages because it tried to avoid “totaling” it’s insured’s (the Bergs)  1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee.  The Jeep was [ Read More ]

When a motorcyclist is involved in an accident, the injuries are almost always severe and life altering.  Each year in Pennsylvania there is approximately 4,000 accidents involving motorcycles and approximately 98% of the bikers involved will be injured; 5% will [ Read More ]

Often times when I first meet a client who has been harmed by the careless acts of another, I am lucky to hear: “I’m not the kind of person who does this kind of thing.”  Obviously, this “thing” is the [ Read More ]

In the year 2012, fifty-five (55) separate people, or an average of 1 person per week, sought to hire me to bring a medical negligence claim on their behalf.  After scrutinizing the facts of each, sometimes spending thousands of dollars [ Read More ]

The Veteran’s Administration (“VA”) has been forced to address traumatic brain injury suffered by returning war veterans.  On December 10, 2012, the Veterans’ Affairs Department officially recognized, in an administrative ruling, the association between traumatic brain injury and five separate [ Read More ]