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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.
...Details >>
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.
...Details >>
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.
...Details >>
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.
...Details >>
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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VERDICTS SETTLEMENTS & TACTICS
John J. Ulrich and E. Louise Ulrich v. Textile Chemical Company, Inc. v. J. T. Baker and Allied Chemical Corporation
May, 1994
Trial Verdict:
Verdict in favor of the Plaintiffs with three million dollar ($3,000,000) damage award to Plaintiff John Ulrich; one hundred thousand dollar ($100,000) award to Plaintiff wife Louise Ulrich. My Motion for Assessment of Delay Damages, Plaintiffs seek to mold verdict to a total amount of $4,619,800.
Court and Docket No.:
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, October Term, 1988, No. 3968.
Judge:
The Honorable Victor J. DiNubile, Jr.
Type of Action:
Product liability based upon defective packaging of sulfuric acid.
Injuries:
Sulfuric acid burns to right arm, face, right leg and feet compromising nine percent of the total body; permanent disability of right forearm and restriction of use of the right arm and right leg; scarring.
Plaintiff's Attorneys:
Martin K. Brigham and Eunice F. Trevor, Galfand, Berger, Lurie, Brigham & March, Philadelphia.
Additional Comments:
On December 29, 1986, John Ulrich was severely burned on his right arm, face, right leg and foot by sulfuric acid that had been sold by Defendant Textile Chemical Company, Inc. to Mr. Ulrich's employer. Mr. Ulrich slipped and fell into sulfuric acid which had leaked from a large broken glass carboy, the packaging in which Textile Chemical Company had sold the acid.
The six and half gallons of concentrated corrosive sulfuric acid was packaged in glass and protected only with a styrofoam shell. Since the large carboy is intended for industrial use, Plaintiffs argued that the sulfuric acid should have been packed in smaller containers and the bottles wrapped in a "safety coating" which would minimize the risk of worker injury in the bottle broke.
At the time of sale of the sulfuric acid, the "safety coating" was commercially available with a 200 pound tensile strength that would have prevented the injuries. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the safety coating, Plaintiffs videotaped the impact testing of glass bottles, both coated and uncoated, at Drexel University under the direction of Dr. Elihu Grossman.
The treating physicians and therapist described the six hospitalizations, seven surgeries and years of occupational therapy that Mr. Ulrich endured in order to achieve a maximum recovery. Mr. Ulrich has a permanent impairment of the use of his right arm, (including sensory loss of the right forearm due to nerve damage) and restriction in the use of his right leg. Total medical expenses were in excess of $43,000. Loss of earnings and earning capacity exceeded $325,000.
Defendant Textile Chemical Company, a distributor of Industrial Chemicals, sued its suppliers that had pre-packaged the carboys of sulfuric acid: J. T. Baker and Allied Chemical Corporation. The Defendants argued that it was not foreseeable that a large piece of industrial equipment would fall on its glass carboys. They also argued that safety coating of the bottles would not be economically feasible. Representatives of the Defendant agreed during cross-examination that the total cost of repackaging the acid in smaller containers with safety coating would be $1.10 per week for the total annual consumption of sulfuric acid at the Plaintiff's employer.
Defendant's Attorneys:
Richard Masterson and William Dienna, Materson, Braunfeld, Himsworth and Maguire, Norristown, PA, for Defendant Textile Chemical Company, Inc.
Curt Cheyney and Don Bruch, Swartz, Campbell & Detweiler, Philadelphia for Additional Defendant Allied Chemical Corporation.
Auslin Hogan and Lynn Coughlin, White & Williams, Philadelphia for Additional Defendant J. T. Baker.
Plaintiffs' Liability Expert Witnesses:
Walter Stern, Wilmette, II., Packaging Expert; E. Pat McGuire, Bernardsville, NJ, Product Safety Expert; Elihu Grossman, Ph.D., Philadelphia, Chemical Engineer.
Plaintiffs' Damages Expert Witnesses:
R. Michael McClellon, M.D., Philadelphia, Treating Physician; Frederick A. DeClement, M.D., Philadelphia; Melanie Hodge, Brookhaven, PA, Rehabilitation; Robert Wolf, Ph.D., Cherry Hill, NJ, Economist.
Defendants' Liability Expert Witness:
Van Doran F. Douglas, Phillipsburg, NJ, Employee of J. T. Baker.
Defendants' Damages Expert Witnesses:
The Defendants contested disability through the testimony of Richard Kaplan whose entire physical examination of Mr. Ulrich was described in one sentence and from which he concluded there was no significant disability
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