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The following is a list of our most recent events. Click on the links for more information or contact us at events@raynesmccarty.com
01/28/2009
Jim Mundy and Gerald McHugh Make "Report 100" List for Third Year in a Row
The Pennsylvania Report, a premier news source on Pennsylvania politics, for the third year in a row listed Jim Mundy and Gerald McHugh among the Top 100 Most Influential People in State Public Affairs....Details >>
12/01/2008
Pennsylvania Superior Court Rules in Favor of Raynes McCarty Client
Mother, who during her pregnancy, was misled by doctors as to the health of her baby, may hold the doctors responsible for the distress caused her by not being emotionally prepared for a child with severe disabilities....Details >>
11/12/2008
Martin Brigham selected as one of the World’s Leading Product Liability Lawyers.
Marty was nominated by a survey of other prominent attorneys to appear in the 2009 Guide to the World’s Leading Product Liability Lawyers....Details >>
10/29/2008
Raynes McCarty paralegal Donna M. Colarulo, R.P. serving on the Board of Advisors for Widener University’s paralegal training program.
As a member of the Board of Advisors Legal Education Program, Ms. Colarulo participates in panel discussions regarding decisions affecting the curriculum for Widener University’s paralegal training programs....Details >>
10/20/2008
Five Raynes McCarty lawyers recognized by Best Lawyers in America
Best Lawyers in America selected Marty Brigham, Roy DeCaro, Harold Goodman, Jerry McHugh and Stephen Raynes for inclusion in its 2009 edition....Details >>
10/20/2008
Jerry McHugh featured speaker at Pennsylvania Association for Justice Masters Series
Raynes McCarty lawyer Gerald A. McHugh, Jr. was the featured speaker at a PaAJ Masters Series continuing legal education program titled Perspectives on the Critical Components of a Trial....Details >>
10/20/2008
Tim Lawn featured speaker at Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association’s Luncheon Lecture Series
Raynes McCarty lawyer Timothy Lawn will speak at the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association’s November 3, 2008 continuing legal education program titled Proving Difficult Medical Malpractice Issues. ...Details >>
09/01/2008
Philadelphia jury awards Raynes McCarty client $950,000.00 for eye injuries caused by defective plastic flying disc.
After a two-day trial, a jury awarded the Raynes McCarty client $950,000.00 for a laceration to his eye caused by a shard of plastic that splintered from a broken flying disc....Details >>
09/01/2008
Philadelphia jury awards Raynes McCarty client $950,000.00 for eye injuries caused by defective plastic flying disc.
After a two-day trial, a jury awarded the Raynes McCarty client $950,000.00 for a laceration to his eye caused by a shard of plastic that splintered from a broken flying disc....Details >>
04/16/2008
Gerald McHugh and wife Maureen Tate were honored by Friends for Effective Education (FFEE) at the Tribute Medallion Award Dinner on April 16, 2008
The Award recognizes McHugh and Tate’s lifelong dedication to community service, while at the same time raising funds for the St. Francis de Sales Elementary School, in keeping with FFEE’s purpose of providing monetary support to schools that exhibit educational leadership....Details >>
03/31/2008
Regina M. Foley appointed to Philadelphia Bar Association Board of Governors.
Regina M. Foley was appointed to serve a one year term on the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association by Chancellor Michael A. Pratt....Details >>
03/21/2008
Regina M. Foley spoke April 9, 2008 at Continuing Legal Education seminar.
Ms. Foley updated plaintiffs’ and defense attorneys alike on recent developments in products liability law at The Dispute Resolution Institute’s Personal Injury Potpourri....Details >>
03/20/2008
Jenimae Almquist named co-chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Advancing Civics Education (A.C.E.) program.
Raynes McCarty’s Jenimae Almquist and co-chair Barbara Potts, are leading members of the Bar Association in a program to provide supplemental civics education to Philadelphia area public school students starting in the Fall of 2008.
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02/08/2008
Jim Mundy and Gerald McHugh Make Pennsylvania Report 100
The Pennsylvania Report, a premier news source on Pennsylvania politics, for the second year in a row listed Jim Mundy and Gerald McHugh among the Top 100 Most Influential People in State Public Affairs....Details >>
01/29/2008
Jenimae Almquist serves on Philadelphia Bar Association panel on work-family balance.
Raynes McCarty attorney Jenimae Almquist spoke at the program titled “How to Have It All - The Career and the Family,” organized by the bar association’s Women in the Profession Committee.
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01/24/2008
Roy DeCaro Speaks at Philadelphia Trial Lawyers
On January 24, 2008, Roy DeCaro spoke to fellow trial attorneys about the steps he took to help secure the $5,000,000.00 verdict his client received in a recent product liability trial. ...Details >>
11/28/2007
Jury Awards $2.9 Mil. for Death Stemming from Blood Clot
A Philadelphia jury awarded $2.9 million to the wife of a bariatric surgery patient who died from a blood clot that traveled to his lungs after his post-surgical leg blood clots allegedly went untreated for 10 days. The verdict was in the Legal Intelligencer’s list of the Top 50 Verdicts and Settlements of 2007....Details >>
11/06/2007
$5 Million Verdict Upheld in Phila. Infant Tylenol Case
A Philadelphia judge has upheld a $5 million verdict rendered over a 1-year-old’s death allegedly due to liver failure from an overdose of Infants’ Tylenol....Details >>
09/12/2007
Raynes McCarty Distinguished Lecture in Health Law scheduled for October 9, 2007
Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin, visiting professor of Law at the University of Chicago, will be the featured speaker at the Raynes McCarty Distinguished Lecture in Health Law which is jointly sponsored with Widener University School of Law.
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09/10/2007
Best Lawyers ranks Raynes McCarty #1 In Philadelphia Personal Injury Litigation Firms
Best Lawyers in America is the oldest and most widely respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. It has announced its results for 2008, ranking Raynes McCarty as the Number 0ne personal injury litigation firm in Philadelphia, PA. Recognized for individual inclusion in Best Lawyers were: Marty Brigham, Roy DeCaro, Harold Goodman, Jerry McHugh and Stephen Raynes....Details >>
09/09/2007
Marty Brigham presenting at Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable at Penn Law on October 19, 2007
Marty Brigham will be a featured speaker at the "Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable" being held at Penn Law School. Marty will discuss his pioneering work on videotape settlement presentations....Details >>
05/04/2007
Federal Judge Lauds Firm’s Donation to Support Center for Child Advocates
Describing it as “an example of our Bar at its best”, United States District Court Judge, Stewart Dalzell commends Raynes McCarty’s $10,000.00 donation to the Support Center for Child Advocates....Details >>
05/01/2007
Marty Brigham honored in world-wide survey
The Legal Media Group ("LMG"), based in London, England, has just announced the selection of Raynes McCarty's Marty Brigham for inclusion in its "2007 Guide to the World's Leading Product Liability Lawyers." ...Details >>
03/15/2007
3rd Circuit Affirms $7.4 Mil. Verdict in Suit Against VA
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a $7.4 million verdict obtained by Raynes McCarty's Jerry McHugh and Regina Foley against the Department of Veterans Affairs stemming from its decision to expel a Delaware County man who suffered from “rage disorder” and just one day later murdered two of his children and two of their friends.
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02/16/2007
Top 100 Most Influential People in State Public Affairs
Two Raynes McCarty Attorneys Identified as Top 100 Most Influential People in State Public Affairs...Details >>
02/07/2007
$1,750,000.00 Civil Rights Settlement for Widow of Undercover Officer Killed by Fellow Policeman
On February 2, 2007, Judge Stewart Dalzell approved a settlement by the City of Reading in a civil rights law suit filed by Gerald McHugh on behalf of the widow of a Reading police officer. The undercover officer - Michael H. Wise, II - died on June 4, 2004, when he was struck by a bullet fired by a fellow member of the Reading police force. ...Details >>
01/08/2007
Roy DeCaro and Stephen Raynes selected to be among 500 Best Plaintiff Lawyers
Roy DeCaro and Stephen Raynes were named as being among the 500 Best Plaintiff Lawyers in the United States by the Publication "Lawdragon."...Details >>
12/01/2006
$5 million verdict for child who died from liver damage caused by Tylenol
Roy DeCaro was the lead trial attorney for the family of a one year old child who died from liver failure caused by Tylenol. Mr. DeCaro convinced the jury that the drug company provided misleading and inadequate warnings about the concentration and toxicity of Infants’ Tylenol. The jury awarded the family $5,000,000.00 for the loss of their child. Recently, the trial court rejected the drug company’s request to overturn the verdict. ...Details >>
10/17/2006
Martin Brigham Honored
Martin Brigham received a lifetime achievement award from the Philadelphia area Occupational Safety and Health Project...Details >>
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THE SUBURBAN
Delco Jury Awards $650,000 in Auto Accident
Trial and Verdict in Judge Bradley’s Court Took Five Hours
By Gloria Hayes
Special to the Suburban
A Delaware County common pleas jury this month awarded more than a half-million
dollars to a driver injured in an automobile accident, but what was most noteworthy,
according to the plaintiff’s attorney, was the speed of the process, from
start to finish.
“The panel walked into Judge {Harry J.} Bradley’s courtroom in
Delaware County at 10:15 a.m.,” said A. Roy DeCaro of the Philadelphia
firm of Raynes McCarty Binder Ross & Mundy, “and at 3:15 p.m. they
had a verdict and awarded plaintiff $650,000.”
The plaintiff, Beverly Pittinsky, claimed she sustained serious neck and shoulder
injuries after her car was rear-ended by a car driven by Franklin Miron. Miron
admitted liability, according to the plaintiff’s pretrial statement.
Another circumstance worth noting in Pittinsky v. Miron, DeCaro said, was that
Allstate Insurance Co., the defendant’s automobile insurance carrier,
offered $16,500 to settle the case. DeCaro said he sent Allstate numerous letters
of excess regarding the defendant’s $50,000 policy limit and his intent
to collect an excess verdict amount against the insurance company.
“Because of the low physical impact to the car, which did not cause
a lot of damage, Allstate put that figure on the case and didn’t budge,”
DeCaro said. “This was a severe injury case, and their failure to evaluate
the case on an individual basis was akin to playing with fire.”
Pittinsky and her neurosurgeon, S. Ausim Azizi of MCP-Hahnemann University
Hospital, were the only two witnesses to testify at trial. Allstate’s
attorney, Peter Adubato of the Law Offices of Stephen P. Ahern in Philadelphia,
did not present any witnesses. He merely cross-examined the plaintiff’s
witnesses, DeCaro said.
According to the pre-trial statement prepared by DeCaro, Pittinsky’s
automobile was rear-ended on southbound Route 202 in Chadds Ford on Feb. 9,
1998, by a car driven by Miron.
Afterward, Pittinsky was placed in a cervical collar and taken to Riddle Memorial
Hospital where doctors determined she had suffered a concussion and neck pain.
A week later Dr. Azizi evaluated Pittinsky and diagnosed a cervical and brachial
plexus traction injury, which was caused by the flexion extension of her neck
on impact. Azizi recommended muscle relaxants and over-the-counter pain medication
along with physical therapy and a soft collar worn at night.
Between February and May of 1998, the plaintiff attended a total of 19 physical
therapy sessions at Broomall Rehabilitation Center but discontinued them due
to severe pain she experienced following the sessions. She then began experiencing
daily debilitating headaches.
“Prior to the accident, Ms. Pittinsky was an avid runner, bicycle rider
and rollerblader. Not only is she unable to do those activities, she also cannot
perform such basic tasks as washing her hair, cleaning her house and doing her
laundry. She has severe and disabling pain with the simplest of daily activities,”
the pretrial statement said.
According to DeCaro, Dr. Azizi testified via videotape that a quantitative
sensory test revealed small fiber neuropathy and that the patient’s prognosis
for recovery was not good as only 50 per cent of patients with that condition
fully recover after two years.
Because Pittinsky was not working at the time of the accident, DeCaro was
not seeking lost wages or loss of future earning capacity for his client. He
sought damages for past and future pain and suffering and loss of enjoyment
of life as a result of the accident and the injuries Pittinsky sustained.
“When it came time for closing arguments I summed it up for the jury
in this way, ‘This case is about a lady, who as a result of this accident,
has trouble combing her hair,’” DeCaro said.
“Although the entire trial only took five hours, it was a most appropriate
verdict because the plaintiff was seriously injured,” he said.
Delay damages would bring the award to $702,000 according to DeCaro.
DeCaro credited Bradley for the efficiency with which he handled the proceedings.
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