Stewart Eisenberg
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About Stewart Eisenberg
Stewart J. Eisenberg founded the firm and has spent over 40 years representing victims of catastrophic injuries and wrongful death, trying more than 50 jury trials. He graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and earned his law degree from Temple University School of Law in 1980, where he served on Law Review and received the Barristers Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy. He is admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar since 1980. Among his trial results are a $2.46 billion Boy Scouts of America sexual abuse settlement, a $101 million Tropicana parking garage collapse settlement, a $65 million dram shop settlement, and a $55.3 million crashworthiness verdict in a Honda seatbelt defect case. He is a past president of both the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, a 15-year recipient of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, and a member of the Best Lawyers in America in the categories of medical malpractice, personal injury litigation, and product liability litigation.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A Philadelphia jury found that a defectively designed seat belt in a 1999 Acura Integra left driver Carlos Martinez a quadriplegic after a rollover on Interstate 70 near Baltimore, and awarded him and his wife $55,325,714. Stewart J. Eisenberg and Daniel J. Sherry Jr., then of Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck (now Eisenberg Winkler Jeck Schwartz Schoenhaus & Sherry), tried the case against Honda. The trial court denied Honda's post-trial motions and entered judgment on the full verdict plus $2,066,002 in delay damages, a molded judgment of $57,391,716. Honda appealed, arguing that a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision handed down while its post-trial motion was pending had rewritten the state's products liability standard. On April 19, 2017, the Pennsylvania Superior Court rejected every argument Honda raised and affirmed.
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