Adam Balick

Proven Verdicts
Wilmington, DE

About Adam Balick

Adam Balick is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been recognized by Chambers USA in the field of healthcare law. He represents a wide range of clients in the health care industry, including nonprofit and for-profit health systems, community hospitals, group medical practices and long-term care facilities. Adam represents clients in civil, administrative and criminal proceedings, including enforcement actions arising from federal and state health laws and regulations. A significant part of his practice also involves first chair representation of business clients in corporate and complex commercial disputes.

After serving six years as a prosecutor in the Delaware Attorney General's Office, Adam entered private practice, where he began focusing on representation of healthcare providers. Over more than 30 years at Balick & Balick, he has regularly represented clients in the Delaware Superior Court, Court of Chancery, Supreme Court and the District Court of Delaware, and has handled litigation before federal administrative law judges, arbitrators and professional licensing boards. His community and government service includes appointment by Governor John Carney to chair the Delaware Correctional Re-entry Commission, appointment by the Delaware Supreme Court to its Access to Justice Commission (co-chair) and Rules Committee, and appointment by Governor Thomas Carper as chairman of the Delaware Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$9,125,000 judgment ($8,125,000 compensatory, Ford's 20% share of a $40,625,000 jury verdict, plus $1,000,000 punitive)Verdict

Larry Knecht, a lifelong auto mechanic in Los Alamos, New Mexico, developed mesothelioma from working with Ford's asbestos-containing brakes and clutches and died in December 2014, more than three years before his case reached trial. His widow, Paula Knecht, tried the failure-to-warn claim to a Delaware jury in 2018 against Ford, the only defendant left of the eighteen originally sued. The jury set total compensatory damages at $40,625,000, assigned Ford 20 percent of the fault among twenty compared parties, and added $1,000,000 in punitive damages, putting Ford's total liability at $9,125,000. Ford's appeal reached the Delaware Supreme Court, which sent the case back on a legal technicality about how to measure an excessive verdict, but the trial judge again found the underlying figure sound and the number held. Final judgment of $9,125,000 plus interest was entered in November 2020, and Ford dropped its remaining appeal three months later.

Delaware Superior Court, New Castle County · 2018Product LiabilityRead the full story →
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Education

Dickinson School of Law
J.D.
University of Delaware
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Delaware

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