Kline & Specter - Major Victories

Verdict against a child placement agency and adoptive parents of a girl who was physically and sexually abused in the home.  

Settlement for the family of a Philadelphia teenager killed when staff at a treatment center put him into a restraint hold. (Leach)

Settlement in a case alleging fraudulent practices against a New York-based company in the sale of prescription medications to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

New Jersey jury verdict involving boy who suffered brain damage due to allergic reaction to peanuts. (Varghese)

 Settlement for a young man who was killed at work when a truck he was working on rolled over onto him.

Settlement with manufacturer in a case in which a school lunch table collapsed and killed a kindergarten student. (Cozzolino)

Settlement in a house fire that killed a man and injured his brother.

Settlement: Patient with abdominal and arm pain dies of heart attack while waiting in ER.

Settlement: Failure to diagnose seizure disorder in baby results in brain injury.

Settlement: Failure to diagnose sodium levels results in pediatric stroke in a nine-month-old child.

Verdict in 2019 for a Reading sanitation worker whose leg was amputated in a screw conveyor at a meat processing plant. 

Settlement with a child welfare agency and hotel on behalf of a woman sexually abused and trafficked as a minor.

Settlement with a rideshare company and a Philadelphia Days Inn hotel on claims they enabled a man to rape an 11-year-old girl.

Settlement: Delay in C-section for fetal distress causes asphyxia and brain injury.

Pittsburgh jury verdict for family of tow truck operator killed when Ford parking brake failed. (Blumer)

Settlement: Delay in delivery results fetal distress, cerebral atrophy and other injuries.

Delaware County verdict for missed cancer diagnosis. (Labricciosa)

Settlement: Mistreated infection after childbirth causes sepsis and mother's death.

Verdict in Montgomery County against hospital involving botched cesarean section that caused the mother to suffer two cardiac arrests and undergo emergency hysterectomy. (Rongione)

Settlement: Injured teenager brain damaged due to excessive anesthetic and morphine.

Settlement with adoption and foster agency on behalf of two girls -- one of whom died -- after a Philadelphia child welfare agency placed them in a home with a known child sex offender.

Settlement in Philadelphia workplace death case (Green)

Settlement with a gymnastics camp on behalf of a 14-year-old female gymnast who was sexually assaulted by a coach.

Settlement: Mistreated infection after childbirth causes sepsis and mother's death.

Settlement: Infant delivered via C-section suffers seizures, cerebral palsy.

Settlement: Forceps delivery of premature baby causes skull fractures, cerebral palsy.

Settlement: Missed diagnosis of meningitis results in severe brain damage.

Allegheny County verdict for worker hurt in fall.

Allegheny County record med-mal verdict for childbirth injury. (Briggs)

Settlement: Delay in diagnosis and treatment of ruptured spleen results in death.

Settlement: Pre-birth malpractice leads to infant's severe mental and physical disabilities.

Settlement: Death of patient who suffered perforation and bleeding during sinus surgery.

Settlement for a woman who entered a hospital seeking help for alcohol abuse and instead suffered a medical error that resulted in severe brain damage.

Settlement with La Salle University for brain injured football player. (Plevretes)

Settlement: Botched resuscitation after birth results in quadriplegia and cognitive deficits.

Delaware County verdict in missed diagnosis case for stroke victim. (Cuff)

Child is injured at birth in central Pennsylvania

Verdict in Erie County against a radiologist on behalf of a young woman rendered blind after blood clots in her brain were missed in her CT scan. (Mitchell).

Settlement: Injuries sustained in delay in delivery and later failure to timely intubate baby.

Settlement: Woman dies after giving birth due to bleeding and fluid management issues.